Georgia Forestry SEPTEMBER 1950 State Has Made Long Stride In Conserving Forests (fRM 11l An.I/ITA J(XJ!IIAL} It is hi1hly si1nificant and heartening news that nearly 16,000,000 acrt;.t of Georgia's forest lands are now -under fire rrotection. This bespeaks wonderfu progress in safe~rding our woodland wealth against 1ts 1110st destructive enemy. Such protection once applied to only 37 of 159 counties and scarcely 26 per cent of the state's privately owned forests. Now it ia fWlcti oning in 86 counties and covers a total of 15,981,434 acres, or rouahly twothirds of the state's timbered area. These facts from a current report by the Georgia Forestry Coamiasion attest a wide -akening to the im- portance of our fores t resources. We are realizing that trees are a mainstay of our economic stren1th, a prime contributor to our present and. future prosperity. We are lear"- ing that they are a major crop which, with d newed ue c and amreaa1ec an b ''a e perennially reperu8nent source of wealth, a perD8Dent provider of employment for labor, a permanent producer of profits for investors, a permanent payer of taxes to the state and local co.amit ies. ' ' Beyond these values they are indispensable to flood control, to the conserva- tion of soil and watel' sup ply, and hence to agriculture, industry and the entire structure of civilized living. To let so vltal an asset be destroy- ed by fire or wasted through want of goodmanatement ia the costliest kind of folly. It ia a true sayin& that a tree can make a million matches, but a match can kill a mill ion trees. By the same token, prevention and control of forest fires ia the sound- est sort of investment .......... . ... The present system should be extended until every count~ is co-QPerat!~ and the state's entire 25,000,000 acres of forest- a vast treasure- are adequately covered. But stoppin1 fire ia the least we can afford to do in the way of pre- serving and uPbuildin1 our woodland resources. 1lley now produce less than half their full potential. Good mgrerafenoaar1tee1sm{teiannttc11roenascesaelnepdcortiouvbfeiletst,~hueatnitrdionau&tl:pathunetd, sane t me ensure a perpetual yield. As we were about to close this~ ment there arrived a copy of the fuly issue of the national magaz ne, American Forests, carrying an artie le b;r Georgia's Otarles Elliott, tit led ' Te....ork in State Forestry. . . . .. . . . . . lir. Elliott s con- cluding words on the state's pro- wen gram of provin&. why it pays to grow trees are worth ponderinl: ''Belonging to the Georgia Forestry Association and lending a hand to better forest practices in the communities where they serve are bankers, edt tors and busineaiiiii8R. Thev all al(ree on one point. Ihere is no 11ealth except the soil ana what the soil produces. Trees are a r- natural resource, and as r - and finis.~ed products, have contributed 1110re more wealth to the state over a lon1er period of time than any other crop. '' Georgia Forestry Vol. III SEPTDIBER, 1950 lfo. 9 A mon~hly bulletin putlished by thE Georg1a Forestry Commission, 43~ State Capitol, Atlanta. Fntered as second-class matter at the Post Office, Atlanta Ga., under the act of August 24, 1912. Member, Ceorgia Press Association. Page Two Sunency Youth Wins Georqia FFA Forestry Award Rooney Tillman of Surrency eel lected a $100 check for witming the annual -state-wide Futur~ Farmera of America Forestry Award. Three other Future Farmers were rewarded for outstanding fore s try wo r k dur ing the State FFA Convention at the State FFA Camp near Covington, July 31. Harold Allen, Pine Grove, runner-up, won $20, Henry Blood worth, Perry, third place winner, -got"$15, and Robert .Clements.Comer, fourth place, received $10. Tillman's project included tur pentining, planting s~ edlinga, , building firebreaks and thinnina undesirable trees. The ApPli"l County sixteen-year-old put 1n lona hours after school and on Saturdaya working on h1s forestry' proJect~ Three years ago he started mar~lnc 13 acres of woodland for 'sel""Ctlve. cutting , helped cut 10,000 feet oi h.l!'ber and 10 units of pulpwood. Last; year he built over eight mil" of firebreaks to protect 80 acrea Below, FFA forestry winner Rooney Tillman, Surrency, right, gets aa.e pointers on firebreaK construction from R. E. Harrison, left, Applinl ' County vocational lricultura1 teacher. -, Xbo"e, Rooney Tillman, Surrency, FFA fo re try winn~ cv t s a new streak one of the turpentine faces on his prizewinning project. of timber, sold 20,000 feet of ltaber and 25 units of pulpwood, -rked the trees to be cut and helped cut pulpwood. Tillman planted most of his 3,400 pine see. dlings in areas where he hed removed undesirable trees. Be is chipping 3, 000 boxes for tur pentine using an acid process to pt lar'ger gum yields and he expects to produce 75 .barre,ls before ,1\&the end of the season. He is work this part of his project on a 8hare bas1s, and wi -ll receive half .the profits. Allen did the same type of work as Tillms.n but on a smaller scale Be protected five acres by fire (O:;..,til1'"1 m Pa(e IIJJ Page Three Geo~gia fo~est~y 4-H Forestry Winners Named Th" six boy and girl District winn,\rs in 4-J.I Forestry Project Achievement Meetings have been announced by the Georgia Agricultural F~tension Service. The win- ning boy and girl from each of the six Extension nistricts will compete at the State 4-H Club Congress to be held in Atlanta in October. The boy and girl winning this contest will represent Georgia at the National 4-B Club Congress to be held in Chicago in December. A total ;,f 53 contestants entered the six Project Achievement Meet- ings this year, the largest number of contestants ever to enter, and a somewhat larger number of entries than for any other demonstration contpst. District winners and their dem- onstration subjects are: Northeast Georgia District-Lynn Odgerl'(boy), Richmond County, 'Farm Woodland \1anagement''; "Jarth'l Corry (girl), Green County, 1 1 Tred Identifica tion. '' North Georgia J)istrict -Jack Billey (boy), Gordon County, ''Fire Protection in the Farm Woods''; Bernice Williams (girl), Catoosa County, ''Identification and L'se of Catoosa County Trees.'' Northwest Georgia District-Richard Darden (boy), Troupe County, 'Planting Forest Tree Seedlin_"s 1 '; Voncei lle Salter (girl), Upson County, 'The Care and Planting of Pine Seedlings.'' Southw,..,t Geor- gia District - Billy \lac Shivera (boy), Clay County, 'Prevenhila, and Controlling Forest Fires''; Hortense ''Contro Bush lling ( gir 1 Pine ), Bake Canker r Coun Rust. tr1 South Central District - Eugene Johnson (boy), lowndes Count~, 'Preventing and Control!... F~rest Fires''; Joy Lewis (girl), Thomas County, ''Soil Conservatl Through Better Forestry Practices . Southeast Georgia District -Erwin Coward (boy), 'The Planting Em and anuel Prot e cCtioounntoyr1 Pine For Screven es C ts''; ount Ja y, n e Cochran ( 'Killing gWi rele)a1 Trees withAmmate. '' StatL' wu1ners last year were Ferguson Cowan, \1i tchell County, and Jeanette Holcomb, GreeneCounty. The-" tentative 1QS1 Naval Stores Conservation Program was presented to the naval stores producers' committee meeting with representatives of the U. S. Forest Service and the Production and Marketing AdministrAtion 0n Tlly 13 in Atlanta. Producers wishing to participate in this incentive payment program must meet general requirements in effect for the last four years. Their applications for payment must be submitted by January 14, 1952. Recommended practices and payments arP hriPflv as follows: ~ Two_cents per fa!=e payment on nine 1nch d1ameter cupp1ng. No cups hung on trees less than nine inchPs. one cup on trees less than 14 inches. 2. Nine inch cupping faces installed in 1947 or later earn one h;ollf cent. 3. Ten inch diameter cupping earns three ~nd a half cPnt<; for working faces Installed for tlw first time during 1951 season. No cups hung on trees less than ten inches; one cup on trees less than 14 inches. 4. Ten inch faces installed in 1950 earn two cents. 5. Four and a half cepts poid on 11 inch working faces ~tatted during 1951 season. No faces installed on trees less than 11 inches. 6. Payment of two and a half cents CA!vf'E~S AT RECENT CORG, A EbYS FoR ESTRY ()M> CHEO< TR: E GRJWTH ,RATES OUR ~ 'NG INSTRUCT.: ON SESS. ON ON TH' ~N l NG. RoOo rEUN.EN, (CENTER, w.;TH lNCF- MENT oO~ER), CbNSERVAT10N FORESTER; UNION bAG & F~t~ GoKrORAToON, INSTRUCTS THE GRJUP. Paae Jlbur AT-FA Chemists Prepare New Rosin Standards ment standards for rosin, the plastic Woody Allen and Rene Bernard, Jr., two young Valdosta c;:hemists, ha~e standards were pronounced to be identical with the government stand- succeeded in prepar1ng new ros1n ards in color composition and com- color standards from plastic. The parison , within accepted tolerances. new plastic standards will be used in grading rosin by color by Georgia's b.ig naval stores industry. The new color standards, made in the form of solid cubes of plastic mounted in metal sleeves, are insoluble, Bernard and Allen have developed several other produ~ts in the naval unme 1table and unbreakable. Tht;!Y are individually made and tested 1n stores field; The two chemists are order to insure proper color and connected with the American Turpen- light transmission. This method of tine Farmers Association which will manufacture and individual colorime- distribute the new plastic standards. Standards were for~rly made of tric testin~ is a c~mplicated ope~a tion requinng constderable techntc- glass in Austria but since World al skill and equipment. War II have been unobtainable. Gov- The new color standards have been erment standards have not been subjected to the most severe tests available in sufficient numbers to and were found to be immune to break- meet the needs of all the dealers and age, deterioriation or loss of trans- consumers of rosin. The new plastic parency. The necessary color s in standards will be more economical the new rosin standards have been and wi 11 be avai Jable to naval stores found co lor-fast uncle r even the most men in larger quanti ties than the prolonged exposure to direct sunli~ht. old standards. The plastic standards are super1or The new standards have met require- to ordinary samples made of rosin ments of the Naval Stores Inspection because they can be dropped onto Service, USD\, and have surpassed the old ~lass standards in some re hard surfaces without breaking or cracking. spects PwE. RWF.ECATllNeEnW. ROSIN STANDARDS . . ~T-~~ chemist s . R. L. examine new plastJc roSin color s t anda rds Bernhard, th ey have left, ~nd p re pffl rl Paae l-ive Geortia forestry Fifty-five Georgia youths, representing counties throughout north Georgia, enjoyed a week of forestry, food and 'fun at the 1950 Georgia Boys Forestry Camp held July 31-August 5 t Franklin Roosevelt State Park near Chipley. Sponsors for thJ.s year s Ca!p were the Maccn Kraft C'oopany, Macon, t :nicn P.ag and Pn;>er C'.orporation, Savannah, and Southern Paperroa rd C'CJll>any, ~.avannah , and !'lrynswick f\Jlp and Paper O:xtpor>y BrunswJ.ck . 'Uw carrp v.'Ss cOnducteii b:v the renrgia H,rPstry Cnnnus!'ion The campers were selected from their home counties through competitive forestry projects and contests in fire protection, thinning, marketing, and reforestation, and on the basis of a demonstrated desire to learn more about woodland protection nd management. 1HE I..EGEND OF SKItain the new proofbook by writing to J'merican Forest Pnxiucb .Industries. Ioc. J319 Eightl!enth St., NoWo, Washingtat DC .... FFA AWARD (O::ntiru:rl trrrr Pa;e 2} breaks, sold 20 cords of wood and 5,000 feet of lumber. Last November he began putting on 1.000 turpentine boxes and anticipates 20 barrels of gum before the season ends. He expects to gross in the neighborhood of $320. Allen and his father run the five acres of woodland on a share basis. Co-sponsors of the awards were St. Marys Kraft Corporation, St. Marys; Elberta Crate and Box Company, Bainbridge; and the Seaboar~ Air Line Railroad. Judges of the contests were M. E. Coleman, American Turpentine Farlll<'rs Association ancl Bob Hoskins of the Seaboar~ Air Line Railroad. BURNED FORESTS I think the first gift God gave trees was pride, That they might face His Heaven unbowed. How straight the firs are on the mountainside! How clean the pines! The whitest cloud, The bluest sky, shame not a tree! Tree-heads are skyward honestly. Tree pride is in the fiber of tree wood. It dies by neither axe nor mill. In new white lumber, clean and strong and good, Tree pride is firm and vital still. Proud are tall masts upon the sea. And. proud home-wood carved from a tree. One way of de..th along trees cannot face And hold aloof from fear and shame; Stark, blackened trunks that haunt a dismal place Confess surrender to that flame, The forest fire. Then shall we be Unsha~d that fire should rape a t1ee? Burned forests on a mountainside. God's trees without his gift of pride. S O'Mar Barker. NAVAL STORES (Cl:Ylti'7LFI fror Par;e 3} 7. .Restricted cupping practice is limited to new 1951 faces installed only on previously worked trees and earns five cents per fact. No round trees to be cupped. 13. Two anci a half cents paid for continuation of working faces qua lif ied under the restricted cupping practice in 1950. 9. Seven cents, paid under selective cupping practice, limite~ to work~ng faces installed for the f1rst work1ng in 1951 season. Dense stands of second-growth timber may be worked and an earlier thinning made in order to provide growing room for remaining trees. Half of trees nine inches or larger must be left uncupped. 10. Three cents paid for conqn'-;lation or selective cupping qual1f1ed for selective cupping practice in 1947, 1948, 1949or 1950. 11. Eight cents payment for ~elect ive re-cupping practice, l1m1ted to tracts or drifts which were worked and earned payment under selec~ive cupping practice under a prev1ous program. Faces installed only on ~reviously worked trees; no faces 1nstalled on round trees. 12. Three and a halt cents payme~t for continuation of selective recupping on tracts or d~ifts qua~ifi~d for selective re-cupp1ng pract1ce 1n 1950 program. 13. Eight or eleven cents per face payment for faces worked 1n pilot plant tests depending o~ nature of practice performed. H1gher p~ac ~ices carry hi~her paymen~ . Pilot plant tests lim1ted to a minimum of producers selec~ed by U. S. Forest Service to conduct controlled ~x per iments in new nv>thods and equipment for gum prodUctron. (Continued from Page 6) Union Bag and Paper C':lrporatinn J. C. Turner, District Forester, Georgia Forestry Commission, George W. Lavinder, District Forester, Georgia Forestry Commission, Harry Rossoll, Illustrator, Southern Region, U. S. Forest Service; Lester L. Lundy, Assistant District Fores- ter, Georgia Forestry Commission, and R. E. Davis, Information and Education chief, Georgia Forestry Conmission. Georgia Forestry SEPTEMBER 1950 Entered as second-