Georgia forestry, Vol. 4, no. 3 (Mar. 1951)

~Georgia Forestry
MARCH 1951
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Today's Tragedy:

In The Forests Burning Forests

(From the CarroLLton fimes Free Press)
The biggest single income from the soil year after. year in Carroll County comes from trees. We sometimes hear we have neglected cotton, failed to learn modern ~ethods in growing it and been negligent in following t:uough in getting every di rne possib le out of it. "?ut any laxity in c ot t on slides into insignificance when we cons i d er o ur p ast hapha zard re~ard for trees and woods. And, despite this disregard and lack of thinking,the woods continued to yield year after year more dollars than anything else coming out of the soil. We took trees for granted. They just grew and were cut and just happened to provirie a nice profit.
It is beginni ng t o be real ized now in Carroll C~u n t y wh at importance t i mb er hol d s , the income it provides the land owner, t he work it gives mil l operators and lumber processors, the homes it builds and the indust r ial opera t ions i n which it is a b as ic raw mat e r i al.
SenthJent a gainst woods fires here was s low in coming into being. As re c ent as a ye ar ago when a county fire pro tection unit was added there were many who considered it a joke a nd wa st e of public money. A few may sti ll f ee l that way. The unit has hal ted scores of fires, developed a lin e of t hink i ng tha t r e alizes the hollow thi nk i n g beh inrl v il full burning off of wou8s and s aved the li ve s of mi llions of little pi n e which will be the saw ti :nber of a f ew mo r e ye ars.

(From the Coffee County Progress)
Tust about this time of the new year most farmers get to wanting to do something to get things growing and about the first thing ~any of them think about is burning a little tract<: of woodlands or a corner in t!-le field.
The man who sets fire out is responsible to see that it does not burn beyond his own land borders. The present l a ws o f the state of Geo r gia conc erning burning of land a re sufficient to protect land owners if enforced and pressure should he brought where needed to see that those burning areas burn only their own land.
It is tragic to burn our fores t l and s a nd the s ooner we le a rn t h at i t i s burning money fro ~ our own pockets, the sooner ~e'! l quit burnin g them.
Fire is difficult to con trol and it has no business in the forest in the first place. We get a ~reat percentage of our liveli!lood fro m ti mber, gum, turpentine and pulp wood to say nothing of fire wood and oth er products .

Georgia Forestry

VoL. i.J

March. 1951

No. 3

A monthly bulletin published by the Georgia Forestry Commission
State Capitol, Atlanta. Entere~
as second-class matter at tne Post Off i ce, Atlant~. Georgia, under the
ac t of August 24, 1912 . Member of t he Georgia Press Association.

March, 1951

Page T'tloO

DeLoach Cites Fire Danger;

Asks Respite From Brush Burning

Delay your brush burning until a letup co~es in Georgia's critical forest fire danger situation.
Such was the appeal made this n~nth to Georgia's farmers and landm~:ners by Guyton DeLoach, Director, Georgia Forestry Commission, which recently completed a survey showing a large percentage of the State's forest fires are starting from control burns - the burning off of fields and of piles of brush.
DeLoach pointed out that dange~ from control hurning exists even during normal times, but he said today's situation in Georgia's tinder-dry w~odlands is ' ' f a r from normal.''
"Far too many cases," the Commiss ion Director added, are being reported in which a simple control burn turned into a disastrous forest conflagra ti on. .1\pplying a match to so~e brushpile or broo~sage field may seem a harmless act, especially when precautions are taken to prevent the spread of fire.''
'Few persons realize, though,'' he continued, ''that even these precautions can not always serve as a guarantee against woods fires during this especially dangerous season of the year - a time when the forests are at a high point of inflammability ...
Director DeLoach emphasized that not only was March a particularly dangerous season of the year as concerns woods fires; but he added this March was a more dangerous month than in ~any preceeding years.
''Extreme cold weather,'' he stated, ''has made woodlands, grass, and pasture lands far dryer than in pre~i0us years. FirPs star t far

easier today; they spread far easier. Before you plan any kind of control burning, contact your County Forester or Ranger and get his advice. If you live in an unprotected county, your District Forester can tell you of the danger which lies in control burning at this time cf the year.''
DeLoach reported that through February 1 Georgia had lost 5~,080 acres in the last six months, most of it in the current fire season
since October 1. County Foresters
and Rangers during that period re-
ported 1,4Sn fires.
' The Commission head asked for the ''all-out cooperation'' of Georgia citizens during the remainder of the fire season and predicted that a voluntary clampdown now on brush burnin~s would go far toward cutting down on the vast forest acreage which weekly is being lost to flames throughout ~eorg. a.
The unveilina of a replica of the Statue of Liberty on the State Capitol lawn by Boy Scouts,whose pennies and dimes provided for the replica, also proved the occasion for a seedlina presentation. Guyton DeLoach, left, Director of the Ceoraia Forestry Commission, presents pine seedlings to John H. Lander, President of the Atlanta Council, Boy Scout-'> of America, while Roy M. Lyles, Scout Deputy Trainina Exe cutive for Georgi~ looks on. Lander accepted the seedlinas on behalf of Georai a's Boy Scouts, who this year are laying particular stress on con~ervation and reforcstat ion.

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Geor~ia Forestrv

Commission Headquarters Moved

Fulfilling an acute and longstanding need, the Atlanta headquarters of the Georgia Forestry Commission has been moved to a new and larger location - on Hunter Stre et directly across frorn the State Capitol, where the offices previously were located on the fourth floor.
Guyton DeLoach, Director of the Georgia Forestry Convnission,_ pointed out that capacity of the old headquarters long ago had been outgrown, an outgrowth resulting from expanded services offered by the Commissi on during the last few years and a constantly growing list of countie s under forest fire protection.
He pointed out that as recently as December, 194~. only 43 counties and nearly eight and a half uillion acres of Georgia forestland were under organized fire protection. 'Ji th the number mounting until there are at present ~o counties and more than 16 mill ion acres under protection, the difficulty of adninistering the Commission's work i n the crarnped quarters of the old headquarters location became in c reased daily.
The Commission Director, in announcing t:le opening of the new headquarters, emphasized that the only change to be ~ade in addressing mail to the new Commission headquarters i s i n omitting-the old "435" nu-nb er. Mail should be address ed to ''Georgia Forestry Conmission, St ate Capitol, Atlanta, Ga.''
~eLoach reoorted the Comnission's Atlanta headquarters phone also has been changed. TI1e new number is Al. 4861.
The new building, decorated attractively inside with walls of

green, green linoleum, and white ceilings, contains 11 individual storerooms and offices. (The old rapitol buil d ing headquarters contained four rooms).
Among the rooms in the Hunter Street building are individual offices for DeLoach, for the Assistant Director in ("harge of Fire Protection; Assistant Director, nanagement; Assistant Director, ;~urseries; and the Chief,Information and ~ducation.
A special conference room in
which members o f the Board of Commissioners will hold regular meetings and in which forestry ~otion pictures can be shown is at the front part of the building.
Business office and clerical staff, under the direction of George Bishop, Administrative Assistant, are housed in the main portion of the building, with individual offices alongside it. Pest roo~s. a store room, and a mail room are in the rest of the building.
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Members of the American Turpentine Farmers Association Cooperative will hold their fifteenth annual convention April 18 at Valdosta, according to announcement by Judge ltar ley Langdale, Association President. Election of officers for the new year and discussion of vital topics relating to the turpentin'e industry will be included in the day's events .
One of the convention h ighlights, as in years past, will be t he election of a Miss Gum Spirits of Turpentine for 1951. Entrants in the contest to select the Gum Turpentine Queen are sponsored by the Directors of the Association, and the beauty parade is always a gala event. Miss Betty Sue Stoutamire, of Tallahassee, Florida is the 1950 Queen.

Narch, 1951

Page Fnur

Forestry Association

Sets Savannah Meeting

Several hundred landowners, foresters, industry representatives, public official-s, and others interested in Georgia's forestry potential
and forest industries are expected to gather at Savannah's Hotel DeSoto
April 6 to attend the twenty-seventh
annyal convention of the Georgia Forestry Asso~iation.
This year's convention theme, according to Hugh Dobbs, Association President, will be 'Georgia's Forest Products: Sypply Versus Demand Both During and After the National Emer-
gency.''
"We will attempt to show in detailed outline, ' Dobbs said, "the tremendous untapped natural resources which exist today in Georgia's woodlands. Forest products manufacturers from out-of-state will be given an opportunitY to see what our woodlands
actually could provide them in the way_. of .con~entrated, year- round pruuuctton. '
Registration is to begin at 9:30 a. m. Dobbs will open the meeting at 10 a. m. with the President's address and will preside over the morning session.
Guyton DeLoach, Directo~, Georgia Forestry Commission,
wtll describe the Commission's
work and the implications and the
effect it will have during the national emergency.
GFA Director Kirk Sutlive will
~reside at the luncheon meeting. The luncheon speaker will be announced later.
Charles F. Evans will preside over an afternoon forum on "Supply Versus Demand of Georgia's Forest Products." Among those participating will be Henry J.
Malsberger, Forester, Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association; Ted Liefield, Consultant Forester; Harley Langdale Jr., landowner and tinber operator, and Johr. McElrath, of Jeffreys-McElrath Lumber Coopany, Macon, and merrber of the Board :qf Commissioners, Georgia Forestry Commission.
' Special invitations are being sent the Association's Keel Georgia Green

county committee chairmen asking them to participate in the question and answer session of the foru~. Information will be given by these chairmen on what forest resources are available in their counties.
At the business session in the afternoon, B. M. I..ufburrow, Executive-Secretary of the Association, will present his annual report. Five directors ~fll
be elected for three year tenms.
Present officers and directors of the Association, in addition to Dobbs, Sutlive, and Lufburrow, are R.H. Rush, Hawkinsville, First Vice President, and Wallace Adams, Glenwood; W.T. Bennett, Savannah; M.H. ClRrk. Albanv: T.L. Gillis Tr., Soperton; M. R. Harding, Macon; E. T. Hu d s on , E 11 i j a y ; W. A. Knox, , Thomson; A.R. Shirle~, Valdosta; J.E. McElrath, Macon . Hobart ~anley
Sr., Savannah; W.M. Oettmeter,
Fargo, and R.H. White Jr., Atlanta, Directors.
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Georgia was second in the nation in forest acreage certified undr the American Tree Farms System d~r
ing 1950. Tree Farmers in this state last
year dedicated 546, 133 acres to the
continuous production of wood for commercial use, bringing Georgia's total Tree Farm acreage to B~1,966. That amount represents 46 different
units.
Georgia was one of four states to enter the Tree Farm Program in 1Q48, with the joint sponsorship of the Georgia Forestry Commission, the Georgia Forestry Association, and the Southern Pine Association.

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Georgja Forestry

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SclseJuleJ q.M lf/.d).-/1 Memk~U

Plans for the Georgia Forestry Commission's annual week-long ~FA Forestry Camp, slated for Laura S. Walker State Park near Waycross June 24-10 this month were announced by Guyton DeLoach, Commission Director.
Aimed at stimulating in boys of the State's Future Farmers of America clubs a greater interest in protecting and utilizing Georgia's wooded
areas, the 1951 camp also is designed
to help them better understand forestry jobs and problems.
DeLoach announced an outstanding FFA member with definite interest in forestry will be chosen from each of the 00 counties in Vocational
Districts 1 and 2. Doys from the
northern half of the state will attend a similar camp in 19~2.

Sponsoring the camp are TJnion 3ag and Paper C~rporation, Brunswick Pulp and Paper Corrpany, and (;air Woodlands Corporation, all of Savannah, a~d Macon Kraft Company. These sponsoring mills pay all expenses for campers except transportation.
Training periods will cover the growing, harvesting, and marketing of forest products. Forest fire prevention and control also will be stressed. Lectures, field work, and demonstrations will be held on wooded tracts near the campsite. A full recreational program also is scheduled.
Georgia Forestry Commission personnel and other trained foresters will provide instruction, most of' it based on the ''learning by doing''
method.

The Jeff Davis County Ledger's third annual ''Keep Green'' edition, published February 1~. still is receiving the plaudits of officials of forestry organizations and woods products groups.

Termed by fellow newspapermen of
Editor J. E. Baynard ''as the most

complete 'Keep Green' issue he's put

out yet,'' the special edition was

prin ted in two eight-page sections

and was distingui shed by the use of
. . green ink thr.oughout the newspaper.

More than two dozen illustrations

r ' vering every phase of forestry fro'Tl

f1r P ,rPvention to management were

incl L

i1. he 16 pages. The Georgia

F J.-e.

Corrrnission aided in the pub-

li cat ion~ rough contribution of

photographs, technical information, and advice.
Subscribers to the Ledger became acquainted by looking through the pages of the paper, with the work done in reforestation in their county (more than q4~,000 seedlings planted in two years), with the vast amount of fprest acreage in their area (eight of every 10 of Teff Davis' acres is in forests), and the best methods of preventing fire in the Jeff Davis woodlands (Smokey Bear's four fi!e rules.)
Advertisements throughout the edition ernphasized the value of Teff Davis County's woodlands ami the importance of their protection and development.

March, 1951

Pa~ Six

Forestry's role in a world at war was one of the top discussion points brought out at Savannah February 1~-
17 when several h~ndred persons gath-
ered to discuss ''Private Enterprise in Forestry'' during the tenth annual
Southern Forestry Conference of the Forest Farmers Association.
Talks by a 0. S. senator, a U. S. representative, several foresters for large manufacturing firms, leaders in the U. S. Fares t Service, and officials of forestry organizations were included at the three-day session at the General Oglethorpe Hotel.
Another highlight of the conference, attended by forestry-minded citizens from throughout the Southern states, included a complete showing of exhibits. Exhibitors included the Georgia Forestry Commission, the U.S. Forest Service, ~nerican Forest Products Industries, Southern Pulp and Paper industries, saw manufacturers, tree planter manufacturers, and mill representatives.
Discussing the Conference theme, ''Private Enterprise in Forestry,''
Louisiana's Senator Allen T. Ellender
advised his audience, ''T:1e best way to combat encroachment of government control into your business is for you, yourselves, to accomplish the objectives that the bureaucrats would

REP. R. L. f. SIKES, right, becomes an honorary member of the forest farmers Assn., following his luncheon address. Paul Schoen, left, makes the award.
achieve by private control of private forestry. I mean that you should put into practice the measures that will conserve and expand our forest resources.
''If the government can do it," Senator Fllender, who is chairman of the Senate Committee on Forestry and Agriculture, declared, ''then private enterprise can do it better. ~hat is more, the government, under present
(COntinued on Page Ten)

EXHIBIT--The Georgia forestry Commission's exhibit at the Southern forestry Conferenc~ included the h~avy fire suppression unit, pictured at right, P~usa Power IJ.Xlgon and jeep Wtth pLow. Thursday night at th~ Conference was devoted to snowings by mor~ thana score of exhibitors.

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Geor~ia Forestry

New developments in Georgia's naval stores industries were demonstrated in 11 short courses held throughout the South Georgia naval stores belt during February.
Naval stores producers, county agents,and other agricultural leaders in 56 counties participated in the meetings. Short cours~ sites included Emanuel, Berrien, Ware, Long, Toombs, Bulloch, Treutlen, T~lfair, Jeff Davis, ~ Htchell, and Turner Counhes.
C. Dorsey Dyer, Forester, AgriculExtension Service, directed the meetings which were planned to aid gum producers who are now facing serious labor shortages and other problems.

Topics at each meeting includeQ hangi ng and raising CUps, proper chipping methods, and the use of acid in naval stores production.
Officials of the 19~1 Naval Stores Conservation Program were co-sponsors, and field inspectors of the progra~ were on hand to discuss 1951 practices. ~epresentatives of the Southeastern Forest Experiment Station, Lake City,Florida, also participated. Walter Chapman, Extension Service Forester, aided Dyer in the programs.
Georgia naval stores producers worked more than 40 million pine faces in 1950, and this represented. 74 per cent of gum produced in the . nation.

l'ORKS1Rf DEMONS1RAfiON IN 1RK01LKN COON1Y i'EBROARY 15 included naval sto.,-es sho'rt COU'rse and many phases of fi're p.,-otection, ma'rkefing and managem~nt. He'r~ W. H. McC0111b, cente'r, Dist'rict fo.,-este'r,. Statesbo'ro, explains use of jeep Plow in fi'r~ suPP.,-ession.

March, 1951

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tHEIR OBJECtiVE: fiRE PREVENtiON IN CHAtHAM WOODLANDS~f~ed S. Sh~a~ouse, ~ight, chairman of the Chatham County fo~est~y Committee, meets with two othe~ committee memben to discuss thei~ campaign to k~ep fi~e out of county wood. Lands. the g~ouP incLudes Left to ~ight, G. PhiLtP Mo~gan, who aLso is chai~man of the Boa~d of Commissione~s, Geo~gia fo~est~y Commission, thomas C. HiLton, and Shea~ouse.

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Ollie C. Burtz has been named District Forester of the Ninth District, according to Guyton DeLoach, Director, Georgia Forestry Commission.
Burtz replaced Oscar K. Battle Jr., who resigned from the Cqmmission to accept employment with the
Holly Springs Lumber Company in Canton.
The new District Forester, who will operate from the Gainesville
office of the Commission, began work with the Commission in January, 1949,
as Assistant District Foresterin the Third District. For the past year he has been Educational Forester on a joint project sponsored by the Commission and the Tennessee Valley Authority .

BothBurtz and Battle are graduates

of the University of Georgia School

o~ Forestry. Burtz, following graduatlon fran the University, served

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with the U. S. Navy for three years

as an aviation radio operator.

OLLIE C. BURPZ

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Geor gi.n Fo r f' stry

Foresters And Rangers In The News

.!on1oe County's Forestry iJni t recently received an editorial pat on the back from the onroe AdvertisPr, Citing of the Unit by the Advertiser came after a card was received in the editorial offices from a county resident asking that the newspaper express her gratitude to the Unit for extinguishing a fire on her property. The writer informed the newspaoer that had it not been for Ranger W. W. J ackson and his crew , the fire would have spread to several farms.
''In our opinion,'' the editori al decl a red, ''the fire fi ghters d ese rved the t hanks of the entire coun ty. There i s n o mo re vgluab l e res o urce in thi s sect ion than the forests. If th is as s et is handled properly, it can be a per manent s ource of income. The Fo r es t Ranger is doin g his part in mak i n g it such. All h e asks is the coope r at ion of the public .''

Ranger Floyd Willia ms , of the l-labershar1 Count y Fo restry Unit, reports that 85 per cent of the woods fires he has fought in his county this year started in hollow trees. ''They start,'' he said, ''w:1en a hunter unthoughtfully tries to smoke out his ga~ from the tree by setting fire to the tree.'' Fanger Williams explained that after a hollow tree ha s been set afire, it is pr actically i mpossible to extinguis h the blaze until the tr e e ha~ burne d d own. ''And after that ,' ' he added , ''you ma y have a forest f ire to put out.''

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3 oxwood ~: all Plantation, Thomas County, was the scene of a recent outstanding forestry demonstration. ~onsored by the Thomas County Forestry llnit of the Georgia Forestry Commission and the Thomas County Agent, Georgia Agricultural Extension Service, the demonstration covered more than half a dozen vital phases of good forestry.
Demonstrations and talks included ''Silviculture Methods and Timber Stand I mprovement,'' ''Poles and P ilings ; Harvest i n g and Ma r~ et ing , ''Sawtimber Yarvesting and Marke t ing, ''Pulpwood Harvesting and Marketing,'' ''Hardwood Harvesting and Markets,'' 'Naval Stores, and 'Machine and Hand Planting of Tr ees. ''
Demonstration leaders were No rman R. Hawley , Sout heaste rn Fo r es t Experiment Station , Cordel e; T . A. Liefield, Consultant Forester,
"Thomasville; Howard J. Doyle, South-
ern Pulpwood Conservation Association; Hugh P. Allen, Georgia Forestry Commission; Ralph Clements, Southeastern Forest Experiment Station, Lake City, Florida, and James H. 4ill, Assistant Director in Charge of Nurseries, Georgia Forestry Commission.

FOREST RY IN WARTI ME
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laws, will help you do it, and will help the states to help you do it.
The U. S. Senator advocated putting into effect sound replanting practices, intelligent selective cutting programs, watershed management surveys and plans, fire control systems, ''and in general, halt the decline in our national timber stand.''
Representative Robert L. F. Sikes of Florida, Chairman of the Permanent Unofficial House Forestry Bloc, cited the fact that ''proper forest management is e ssential to keep the nation strong and prepared for any crisis wh i ch may c o rne. ' '
'''\oe must, :1owever, '' he warned, ''awaken the nation to the fact that we cannot continue overdrawing our forest stockpile in every crisis , because these periods of great stress are occurring too frequently. Every acr e s houl d p r oduce, for p e ace time prospe r ity if not for war nece ssi ty."

THE SOUND OF TREES
I wonder about the trees: Why do we wish to be a r Forever the noise of thes e More than another noise So close to our dwelling- place ?
-By Robert Frost

Georgia Forestry
MARCH 1951

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