, , - - - - - - - - ---------~ ...... GEORGIA FORESTRY CJitorial Law Enforcement Protects Timber Timely Slogan Needs Adoption ( From the Cordele Dispatch) Millions of dollars worth of timber are lost every year through forest fires. Crisp' County landowners enjoy the benefits of the county's sound protection system for its forests, but indiv1dual caution in the use of fire, matches, pipes and cigarettes will add to the certainly that fire does not get started 1n our forests. While it is impossible to prevent all forest fires, every landowner should make an effort to save his own property. Often, despite his activity, careless persons will thoughtlessly start a fire. The dry weather of the past 'few months, has contributed to fire hazards from lightning and other causes. Millions and millions of acres of valuable timber have gone up in smoke, at a time when there is such a great demand for this natural resource. With the nation facing a pulpwood shortage, the burning-over of forest lands and the accidental setting of timber fires represent a loss to the national economy, as well as to the individual owner. Let's all adopt the timely slogan, ''Keep our Forests Green!'' .GEORGIA FORESTRY Vol. 4 November, 1951 No/ t / Published Monthly by the GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION, I State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia. Guyton DeLoach, Director Members, Board of Commissioners: G. Philip Morgan, Chairman...............................................................................................Savannah John M. McElrath.......................Macon K. S. Varn...................................Waycross C. M. Jordan, Jr...............................Alamo H. 0. Cummings............Donalsonville Georgia Forestry is entered as second-class matter at the Post Office under the Act of August 24, 1912. Member of the Georgia Press Association. EDITOR. * * * * ............ - ......................R. E. Davis ASSOCIATE EDITOR.. .............................. Robert Rutherford * * * * DISTRICT OFFICES, GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION: DISTRICT I-P. 0. Box 268, Statesboro DISTRICT VI-Court House, Macon DISTRICT 11-P. 0. Box 122, Camilla DISTRICT VII-West Building, Rome DISTRICT 111-P. 0. Box 169, Americus DISTRICT VIII-P. 0. Box 811, Waycross DISTRICT IV-P. 0. Box 333, Newnan DISTRICT IX-P. 0. Box 416, Gainesville DISTRICT X-P. 0. Box 302, Washington (From the Toccoa Record) Forest law enforcement is being increasingly stressed here in the Ninth Forestry District where the Georgia Forestry Corrvnission now has a full-time investigator working. The investigator is a man of several years experience in 1aw enforcement, and it is his duty to help protect your forest land. The investigator visits the scene of fires, takes what evidence has been secured, completes the investigation, and where there is sufficient evidence, a warrant is issued and the case is presen~ed to the grand jury. Anyone requesting an investigation should first contact his County Forest Ranger, who, in turn, will contact theinvestigator for this district . Everyone should check on the ''FiringofWoods'' laws. Youmay be violating the law unknowing! y. You can get a copy of these laws at your ranger's office. Let us hope that we do not have to call an investigator to our county~ You can help stop woods fires will you? GEORGIA' S FORESTS: HOME FOR WILDLIFE, HUNTING GROUND FOR NIMRODS--The familiar Quail, caught in a moment of rest atop a rai I fence, symbolizes the close relationship between forestry and wildlife. Sportsmen and nature lovers throughout Georgia know that wild animals and birds lose their food, and oftentimes pery ish themselves when fire destroys a forest. Keeping Georgia Green means leaving a verdant forestland which will provide for a wellstocked wildlife area. NOVEMBER 1951 2 4-H Forestry Champions Receive Wide Acclaim Approximately 800 landowners from Montgomery, Toombs, Treutlen, Emnanuel, and Jeff Davis Counties were the guests of the Southern KraftDivision of the In terna tion- al Paper Company, October 10 at a forest conservat1on meeting held in connection with the opening of their new woodyard in ~1ont gomery County near Vidalia. A barbecue dinner was given for the visitors after the conclusion of the two hour meeting. Pulpwood delivered into the yard must be cut in accordance with the minimum cutting rules of the Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association andapproved by International's Conservation Forester. This specification is to be rigidly enforced unless Lhe deliverer has a note from the landowner stating that the wood was cut for such purposes as land clearing or pasture. Those persons making deliveries will be able to unload in approximately five minutes, due to the use of a crane. The Vidalia meeting included a conducted tour of the woodyard and an unloading demonstration to display the rapidity of the procedure. The entire transaction takes place on the woodyard and the producer is paid irrmediately regardless of the number of loads he has. Howard J. Doyle, Area Forester, Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association, served as master of ceremonies. Among the speakers were H. E. Ruark, Assistant Director in Charge of Fire Control, who spoke on the landowner services rendered by the Georgia Forestry Corrmission; and W. R. Hine, Assistant Regional Forester, Region Eight, United States Forestry Service, who gave a talk illustrated with slides, on the inportance of soil conservation. Georgia's 4-H Forestry champ- ions for 1951 are Willard Colston, of Habersham County, and Jane Coc~rane of Screven. They will represent Georgia at the National 4-H Congress in Chicago in Ikcember, where 4-H members from all parts of the country will compete for honors. Willard and Jane earned their trip to Chicago as a result of their demonstrations on fares try at the State 4-H Congress- h,eld in Atlanta, October 9-12. Miss Cochrane earned another distinction when she won the State award- she will be the only girl in the country to attend the National Congress as a Fares try _ winner, though she will not be eligible for competition there. (Continued on page 9) 'AOD ONE DOSE POISON' - Jane Cochrane 4-H forestry winner, demonstrates how to kill a hardwood by poisoning. CONGRATULATIONS TO WINNERS - Georgia'.s 4-H forestry winners are congratulated by officials of Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Compaqy. The groop includes, left to right, Lane Hubbard, Georgia Southern Bell manager; Willard Colston, Habersham County; Jane {:ochrane., Screven County, and J. G. Bradbury, Vice Pr~sident of Southern Bell. 3 GEORGIA FORESTRY Srudlt'y to a telephone device constructed by District ' Smol;.ey Bear.'' Forester James C. TumPr which teach~ f ire 7 GEORGIA FORESTRY SPCA Mobile Exhibit Teaches Good Woodland Management Tree growers are getting their conservation information these days in a new capsule introduced by the Southern Pulpwood Conservation-Association. The innovation consists of a specially constructed trailer housing two large and one small diorama displays and a decorative flow chart showing the conversion of trees to paper, with illustrations of major paper uses. The unit was planned and built over a period of two years at a cost of approximately $10,000. Mina ture trees, woods workers and their tools, farms and buildings, and even a pocket-size mechanical tree planter, supplemented by color transparencies, realistically demonstrate both good and bad forest practices. ''Through this new informatwnal medium,'' explained H. J. Malsberger, Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association forester, ''we have graphically demonstrated the same principles taught through on-the-ground forestry demonstrations with the advantage of taking the message to the people.'' Another scene shows the damage wrought by wild fire, insects and disease. Scenes in the two large dioramas depict the various forestry practices. One fine stand of timber is being wisely harvested for poles, sawlogs and pulpwood. The neighbor's timber across the fence has been ruthlessly clear cut. The third diorama pictures a portion of a pulpmill silhouetted against the sky, with pulpwood being delivered to the woodyard by truck and rail. Alongside a properly thinned young stand of trees, two farmers are operating a tree-planting machine in an old field no longer suited for row crops. SPCA DISPLAY- The Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association's new $10,000 exhiuit, which will be displayed throughout all Southern states, carries a true-to-life lesson in good woodland manae:ement. The 1952 Conservation Program for producers of gum naval stores has been announced by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. The program is administered by the Fares t Service for Production andMarketingadministration under regulations similar to those governing PMA' s Agricultural Conservation Program. This year's rate of payment for various conservation practices is the same as that of a year ago. Two practices which were found to be impractical were eliminated - selective recupping and selective recupping continuation. Prowho met the requirements for these practices in previous programs may receive payment under the restricted cupping continuation practice which is similar. Provisions of the 1952 program, effective January 1, 1952, are: (1) payment of 2 cents per face for each properly installed first year face on trees not less than 9 inches in diameter at breast height; (2) payment of ~-cent for continued proper working of each 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th year face on trees not less than 9 inches in diameter; (3) payment of 3~ cents for each properly installed first year face on trees not less than 10 inches in diameter; (4) payment of2 cents for continued working of each face which was ins talled under the 10-inch diameter cu~ping practice in 1950 or 1951; (5) payment of 4~ cents for each properly installed first year face on trees not less than 11 inches in diameter; (6) payment of 2~ cents for continued proper working for each 2nd, 3rd, and 4th year face qualified under 11-inch diameter cupping in 1949, 1950, or 1951; (7) payment of 5 cents for new faces installed on pre- (Continued on page 10) NOVEMBER 1951 8 Foresters A nd Rangers In The ews To the Cedartown Standard in Polk County this month went the distinction of being the first daily newspaper in Georgia to print a Keep Georgia Green edition. The Polk County paper, long an advocate of good forestry management methods for Georgia woodlands, is published by J. E. MdDonald and edited by Mark Waits Jr. James J. Carter, Polk County Ranger, worked with Waits on the issue. Charles T. Graves, publisher of theTri-CountyAdvertiser, another outstanding advocate of good management for woodland. areas, also issued a Keep Georg1a Green edition last month. The advertiser is published in Clarkesville where Habersham County Range~ W. A. DeMore is head of the forestry unit. Both these papers concentrated for one issue on advertisements, news articles, and editorials stressing the theme of fire prevent ion. Emphasis was placed on the importance of public responsibility in protecting Georgia's forests and also the forestry progress and problems of the paper's respective counties. Papers which have published ''Keep Green'' editions within the past year are the Milledgeville Union Recorder, Jones County News, Jeff Davis Ledger, Gordon County News, The Madisonion, Ellaville Sun, and the Fort Gaines News Record. Troy Floyd, Haralson County Ranger, and his crew were commended in a recent issue of the Haralson County Tribune. A Felton sawmill owner, Bud McDonald, wrote the Editor that had it not been for the Unit's "efficient training, my sawmill and a cornpatch would have gone up in smoke." CAI\POREE- oeKalb County Boy Scouts listen attentively while Forester Robert F. DuLaney gives pointers on tree identification, fire prevention, and woodland management as a feature of the Scouts',countywide camporee. James Swindell, Calhoun County Forester, recently assisted in a demonstration of correct forest procedure~ conducted by Georgia Extension Service Foresters Dorsey Dyer and Walter Chapman. The practical instruction period was given on behalf of the Calhoun County Forestry Unit for approximately 40 landowners in Morgan, Ga. CarltonMcClelland' s farm, which has been planted in trees 13 years ago, served as the site of the program. After being shown how to thin trees on a plot of onetenth acre, the audience was invited to demonstrate what they had learned by entering a written contest. W. P. Plexico received first prize. The proper method of setting out seedlings and making a fire line break with a jeep plow also wer~ demonstrated in Calhoun County's Forestry lesson. DeKalb County Forester Robert F. DuLaney recently cooperated with the Boy Scout organization in his district in conductmg an educational _program on fo~e~ try topics. The boys were d1 v1ded into about 12 groups, and DuLaney gave each group . individual instructions. Th1s program was held at the DeKalh Youth Camp as part of the county wide Boy Scout Camporee. The Georgia. Forestry Commission's fire fighting program recently received another welcome round of applause via the Covington News which cited Newton County Forester R. J. Aycock's quick thinking in halting a dangerous brush fire on the Bolton Plantation owned by Jim Knight. . "'., ) ~. Bright Future Seen For State's Pulp Industry ... ,--- ~ WOOD PRESERVATION- Claude Connell, of Columbia County, describes home methods of preservative treatment of wood as he demonstrates before the State 4-H Congress. 4-H Forestry Winners Honored (Continued from Page ZJ His demonstration was tree identification, and his proficiency was well shown. Miss Cochrene has been close to forestry all her life. Her father is a saw-miller in Screven County. For her award winning presentation, Miss Cochrene demonstrated the use of poisoning with Ammate for thinning trees. She learned about Ammate the practical way by thinning a forest stand of her own. The 4-H Forestry Program, which is sponsored in Georgia by the Southern Bell Telephone Company, went through one of its most successful years in 1951. The Company has announced that it will again sponsor the Program in 1952, and this time, open the demonstration program to Junior 4-H Club Members. Others entering the State competitions were Gladys Brown, Hancock County; Sarah Etheridge, Baker County; Guy Rutland, Polk County; Torruny Gray, Wa~e County; Claude Connell, Columb1a County; and Colon Beasley, Telfair County. An optimist}c note for Georgia's future position in the paper producing industry, the sixth largest in the natio was sounded recently by the lieorg1a Depart- ' ment of ConJnerct' s industrial News LettP.r .The publication states tL.. l- Georgia's resources make it an ideal location for paper praiucing plants with its abund"ance of power and vast areas of trees. The publication sees the possibility of Georgia's leading the nation in pulp production in the not so far distant future. Plants now located in the state are St. Mary's Kraft Corp., St: Mary's; Union Bag & Paper Co., Savannah; Southern Paperboard Co., Savannah; Macon Kraft Company, Macon; and the Brunswick Pulp and Paper Co., Brunswick. In addition, there are paper processing industries in the state. The rapid ten-year growth in production of paper and pulp in Georgia is indicated by the fact that pulp output in the state has increased from 441, 650 tons in 1941 to 1,116,900 tons in 1950. Paper production has increased from 386,900 tons in 1941 to 1, 085,875 tons in 1950. USE OF GEORGIA TREES - Sarah Etheridge, of Baker County, tells members of 4-H Congress group many of the uses for Georgia's trees. Guyton Movie The pulpwood industry in Guyton will be featured in a movie made by the American Film Producers of New York City. The film was made as a government project for distribution in foreign countries. A 20 minute short subject in this country, the picture will run an hour in its 40 language translation versions. Residents of Guyton who are in the movie are Archie Hodges and his family and the Lewis Hunter family. Thompson's store is shown as a buying center for the pulpwood operators. NOVEMBER 1951 10 NATIONAL SAF MEET.... Forestry educators will discuss the place of adult education in the forestry program. Forest managers will discuss the role of prescribed fire in southern forest management. Featured addresses will be by PeterWatzek,Crossettindustries, Crossett, Ark., who will speak on ''Intregating Production and Industry''; William J. McGlothlin, director of the Board of Control for Southern Regional Education, Atlanta, Ga., on' 'Regional Education inForestry''; C. D. Dosker, Gamble Bros., Louisville Ky., on ''Trends in Hardwood Utilization''; and William Duerr, U.S. Forest Service, Washington, D. C., on' 'Forest Future of the South.'' Other speakers to appear on the program include I. F. Eldredge, Pn.ul M. Garrison, Edmund T. Hawes, Alfred D. Folweiler, Richard J. Preston, Jr., C. M. Kaufman, Frank Heyward, William C. Hammerle, L. L. Bishop, Ralph T. Wall, K. B. Pomeroy, J. F. Coyne, T. S. Coile, Walter E. Bond, Robert D. McCulley, George A. Anderson, D. V. Logan, J. A. Vaughn, t\rthur W. Nelson, A. W. Hartman, John W. Squires, T. E. Bercaw, Archie E. Patterson, A. E. Wackerman, Ruben B. Robertson, Paul Y. Vincent, Richard M. Townsend, Weldon 0. Shepard, WalterS. Hopkins, Robert E. Williams, and H. G. Meginnis. SEEDLINGS BEING SHIPPED.... ( Continued From Page 3 ) sory services in connection with planting operations. The present crop of seedlings was planted in April and May and several exceedingly adverse factors have resulted in the diminished proouction this year. Coupled with the excessive drought during the summer months has been the factor of unusually low quality of seed, as shown by the exceptionally low germination in the nursery beds. FAIR TIME IN GEORGIA.... ( Continued From Page 5 ) gians will be among the thousands throughout the State who will have witnessed colorful! y arranged exhibits depicting more than a dozen phases of Georgia Forestry. Up in District 10, James C. Turner, District Forester, was show- ing a special' telephone exhibit.' A sign placed by County Forestry Units using the exhibits asked fair-goers to ''pick up the telephone and hear an important message. 1 I When the phone was lifted, the listener heard a recording of a musical jingle which was a plea to prevent forest fires. B. G. Whitehurst ,Georgia Forestry Commission radio technician, helped construct the exhibit. Another innovation among many forestry Units show1ng exhibits at County fairs was use of a three section panel exhibit highlight- ing management, forest fire fight- ing and protection, and reforesta- tion. 0. L. Knott Jr., Assistant Chief, Information and Education, Georgia Forestry Commission, de- signed and built the exhibits, five of which were completed by fair time. cludingPolk Several and Floyd, Units moved ~pmer- tions from their headquarters to fair grounds, receiving calls from towermen, plotting fires, and dispatching vehicles in plain view of an interes ted pubhc which had gathered at the exhibits. A TREE GROWS -- Gladys Brown, of Hancock County, gives ademonstration at the Georgia 4-H Congress on how a tree grows. Forestry occupied a prominent place at the statewide Congress. 1952 NSCP PRACTICE.... ( Continued From page 7 J viously worked trees; (8J payment of 2~ cents for proper working of each face installed under the restricted cupping or selective recupping practices in 1950 or 1951; (9) payment of 7 cents for each properly installed first year face on trees selectively marked to meet specific reguirements of this practice; (10) payof 3 cents for continued working of 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or 5th year faces originally installed under the selective cupping practice; (11) payment of 8 cents to 11 cents for each face accepted for pilot plant tests for controlled experiments in new methods and equipment for gum production; and ( 12) a requirement that participants follow approved practices relative to fire protection and timber cutting. Copies of the bulletin outlining the terms and conditions of the program will be avail~ble for distribution to turpentme farmers in about two weeks. The bulletin may be secured from the Program Supervisor, U. S. Forest Service, at Valdosta, Ga. ores1ry November 1951 t he Post Office, Atlanta, Georgia. PLOW A FIREBREAK BURN AFTER 4 P.M. ONLy HAVE HELp, TOots & WATER BURN ON CALM DAYS ONLy