Georgia forestry, Vol. 4, no. 9 (Sept. 1951)

SEPTEMBER 1951

GEORGIA FORESTRY

Georgia's Forest Wealth
(From the Rome News-Tribune)

Fire-Prevention Contest
(From the Columbus Ledger)

In 1950, Georgians received
more than 167 million dollars for
forest products. Logs for lumber brought 59 million; pulpwood brought 30 million; and naval stores brought 27 million.
The processed value of the forest products was estimated at 594 million doll;:~rs.
Thus Georgia's timber crop is more valuable than the cot ton and tobacco crops combined.
More than 166 thousand persons
have full time jobs as a result of forestry and forestry products. There are 25 million acres of torest lands in the state.
Too many o{ us ignore this great snurrp of wealth for the st.atP..

These fabulouE' resources _shoJJ.ld be protected and developed. lhe state forestry department 1s constantly seeking to improve fire prevention methods. The programs for fire protection deserve the support of every man, woman, and -child in the state. Proper conservation and reforestation programs are also underway. They should be continued and expanded.
The coming of the new Mead Corporation paperboard mill to Northwest Georgia will open up another ready market for trees from forests of this area. The mill means another source of cash income for landowners and farmers. At j;he same time, it will be a stimulus to better protection of existing timber lands, andthe development. of new forests.

GEORGIA FORESTRY
Vol. 4 September, 1951 No.9
Published ~~nthly by the
GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION, State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia. Guyton DeLoach, Director

Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office under the Act of August ~4, .1912. Member of the Georgia Press Assoc1at1on.

EDI'I'CR ASSOCIATE EDITCR

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.R. E. Davis .Robert Rutherford

DISTRICT.OFFICES, DISTRICf I DISTRICf II DISTRICf II I DISTRICf IV DISTRICf VI DISTRICf VII DISTRICf VII I DISTRICf IX DISTRICf X

* * * Georgia Forestry Commission:
P. 0. Box 268, Statesboro P. 0. Fox 122, Camilla P. 0. Pox 169, Americus P. 0. Pox 333, Newnan Court House, Macon West Puilding, Rome P. 0. Fox 811, Wacros~ P. 0. Fox 416, Ga1nesv1lle P. 0. Fox 302, Washington

The forest products industry

long has been a pr~minent factor

in Georgia's econom1c str.ucture.

It is expanding, becommg even

more important. Therefore our

forest land becomes more valuable

and should be cultivated and pro-

tected

more carefully.

To this end, the G(torgia Forestry Association has just announced a contest qpen to those Counties which coperate with the fire control sys tern of the Georgia Forestry Commission. Purpose of the contest will be to reduce the numper of forest fires, reduce the total acreage of burned land, to stimulate interest in better protection, and to create a greater sense of personal responsibility for our forests among all ci ti.zens.
First prize will be $1,000, and as most of us know, Muscogee County is eligible, through our participation in the Commission's fire control system, to participate in the comp! <ti tion.

The Forestry Association, reconrnends that in Coonties where participation in the contest program is desired a County Contest Council be named.
The group wili be composed of representative loc?l citizens, officials and bus1nessmen and civic leaders, The County Council will have full responsibility for conducting the local fir~ P.revention effort and for dec1d1ng how the winning County will spend prize money for a civic or cha:itable project or County-w1de benefit.

The conLest plan is endorsed by State Forester Guyton DeLoach, who has commented: ''Prevention of a single fire may save jobs and income far more valuable than the prize. We urge all eligible Counties to participate.''

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Timber Greatest Georgia

Announcement this month of plans to build a pulp plant at Jesup in Wayne COunty, broughtto three the number of new pulp and paper plants slated for construction in Georgia, with the expected investment in these three forest industries to approximate $50 million.
The Jesup plant will be erected by the Mengel Company of Louisville, Kentucky, and will represent an investment of between $15 and $20 million. Approximately 400 persons will be initially employed in the production of raw materials for conversion to corrugated boxes.
Plans for the Jesup plant were made public by Alvin A. Voit, Mengel Company president, when he announced the purchase of a 500-acre tract to be used as the site of the new mill. The area purchased is at Doctortown adjacent to the Altamaha River. The company has already purchased and leased sufficient timberland areas in Wayne and suTrotmding counties to provide pulpwood for the operation of the mill, and A. A. Dohman of the Mengel Company has already located in Jesup to handle wood procurement for the ergani za tion.

Crop;$694Million Total

Georgia's leadership in forest

More than 166,000 Georgians are

production this month was graph,- employed full time in forestry and

ically emphasized with publicat1on of a deta1led chart, result
of a survey just completed by the Georgia Forestry Association.

the forest industries, and many thousands more are, indirectly dependent UJX>n the forest for a livelihood. Altogether, these 166. 000 persons worked more than

The chart, entitled ''Estimated Production and Value of Forest Products Harvested in Georgia in

34 million man-days in harvesting
and processing forest products 1n the state.

1950," reports on a variety of
timber pr cduc ts ranging from saw-
logs to naval stores, veneer, and
cooperage. The statistics evolved served to re-empha~nze the fact that the forest is the state's most extensive and valuable crop,
is of prime importance in the economy of the state, and that the landowners of the star-e reCf~ived

Georgia's forests, according to the survey, last year yielded products with a total processed value of more than $594,000,000. Total raw value at the mill of the State's 1950 forest products was $167' 021,734.
The 1950 figures show sawlogs leading in the value of raw mater-

more income fran the forest than ials at the mill with a total of

from any other crop. A comparison $59,162,400. Pulp and paper pro-

between crop values shown Gear- ducts led in the 1950 comparison gia' s timber to be more valuable of values of processed forest pro-

than both cotton and tobacco com- ducts with a total aggregate of

bined.

$212,719,500.

GREATEST CROP- Represent~d here are two industries, lumlJer, left,

and pulpmilling, which contrioute toward Georgia's leadership in the forestry field.

Georgia's stately pines and majestic hardwoods are truly her greatest crop, and the landowners greatest benefactor. With almost $600 million turning over annually as a result. of the growing, harvesting, processing, and sale of forest products, farmers of the state receive in excess of $150 million of this amount, and 3059 flli lls employ
166,000 persons. Georgia, as this chart shows, is indeed " on the march" with its tremendous wea 1th of forest products.

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Sessions on forestry and land use featured the program as more than SO teachers, educators, and conservation officials from throughQut Georgia gathered at Camp Ray on Lake Burton during the
weekend of August 10-12. The
encampment was part of the statewide Resource-Use workshops being held during the summer under the general supervision of Miss Reba Burnham, Director of Resource Education, College of Education, University of Georgia. Heading the list of persons present and serving as Director of the Camp was Dr. Richard L. Weaver, Resource-Use Education, North Carolina Department of Public Tns truction.
Trading the classroom for the inviting woods and cooling mountain and lake breezes of North Georgia, the group studied and discussed many phases of conservation, with the emphasis on demonstration and participation by all present. The instructions and discussions were designed to aid the teachers in developing plans for the teaching of resource use in their various schools during the coming year. During the workshops each participant developed such a plan of action, with many building their courses of instruction arounn forestry.

Several phases of forest protection, forest management, and teaching methods in forestry were covered for the group by 0. C. Burtz, District Forester Georgia Forestr~ Commission, Gainesville, and Robert Ruther~ ford, the Commission's Assistant Chief of Information and Education. Special instructions weu given by Burtz and Rutherford in the use of information and education material in the teaching of forestry in the public schools.
Among other instructors present at the session, together with agency represented, were: Mr.
E. H. Thomas , Soil Conservation-
ist, Agricultural Extension Service, Athens, Georgia; Mrs. Jurelle Lott, Instructional Supervisor, BarrowCounty Schools, Winder, Georgia; Mrs. H. J. Walker, Department of Geography and Georgia, Atlanta Di vi son, Uni versity of Georgia; Mr. James H. Jenkins, Instructor, Wildlife Management, School of Forestry, University of Georgia, and State Game and Fish Commission; Mr. J. W. Burdette, Head, Education Sect1on, Soil Conservation Service, Regional Office, Spartanburg, South Carolina; and Mr. Jack Bennett, Soil Conservation Service, Gainesville, Georgia.

RESOURCE-USE SESSION- Teachers study forestry and land use.

Haralson and
Douglas Start
Forestry Units
Two more Georgia counties last month joined the ranks of those under organized forestry protection, bringing the number of forestry units in the State to lOS.
The two counties, Haralson and Douglas, both are in the Seventh District, which is headed by District Forester F. J. Pullen. Addition of the two counties, Pullen pointed out, leaves the Seventh District with only two counties,Fulton and Catoosa without organized forestry protection.
(Georgia's forestry districts are 1oentir.al to her Congressional distr1cts, with the exception of district S, the counties of which were apportioned to various adjoining districts for f crestry administation purposes. Fulton, therefore is 1n Forestry District Seven.)
Haral~on Count~ has 130.416 acres, or 72 per cent, of its total
area in forest land. Douglas Coun-
ty has 87,393, or 68 per cent, of
its total area in forest land.
DeLoach said the Commission soon will announce selection of the men who will head the work of the two new Units. Forestry Boards already have been named.

Haralson County's board con-
~i~t.s ~f A.M. tlobjnson. Waco;
lialph Gre~n, Talapoosa, Birch Bo'MT!an and LeW1S uavenport, -bot!> of fuchanan, and Luther Sanders,
Rockmart, Rt. 2.
Douglas County's board consist
of H. T. &>mar, W. R. Thomas, and
S. W. Mozley, all of Douglasville; W. J. Payne, Villa Rica, Rt. l, and ltobert Wilson, Whitesburg, Rt. l.
The State's lOS Units protect
a total forest area of 17,261,390
acres.

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Century Old Water-Powered Sawmill Cuts Gordon Timber

Of the more than 2, 700 sawmills currently operating in Georgia, few are more picturesque or carry a more interesting background story than one nestled in the hills of Gordon County in North Georgia. Waterpowered and often opera ted by only a single person, theW. F. Dew mill near Cash stands almost as a relic of the past and at the same time as a monument to the lumberman's ingenuity in a by-gone age without highly-developed power sys terns.
Producing high-grade lumber, principally dimension stock, the mill utilizes fast-flowing spring water as a source of power. The waters turning the wheel at the Dew mill bubble crystal clear up from the earth at the rate of 126 feet per second, back up behind a dam to provide fishing, and then turn the horizontal wheel in its endless motion.
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SAWMilL SCENES - W. F. Dew, in photo auove, snows Gordon County Ranger J. C. MeDearis, left, and Sam Thacker, Management Forester for District 7, right, operation of his water powered sawmill. A turn of the giant wheel, lower left, harnesses the swiftly flowing water to the sa\mlill machinery. Logs are unloaded at the mill in photo IJelow, center. The mill itself, l.Je}ow, right.

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Union Bag
Awards Presented

Rob ert James Beason, Eulonia , and Wa rren Guy Garre t , Buena Vi sta , have been named a s winners of t he t wo forestry scholarships awarded annually by Union Bag and Paper Corporation. Both the fu t ure foresters won their awards on th e basis of successfully completed forestry projects and ou tst anding scholarship and c itizenship records. Both winn~ ers were spmsored by the Future Farmers of America.

Beason and Garret will enter the University of Georgia School of Forestry during the coming term and will receive $1600 for the next four years. The awards represent part of Union Bag's and the pulpwood industry's program to encourage good fores t ry practices throughout the South.

SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS - Dean Don J . Weddell, center, of the Univer sity of Georgia School of Forestry, congratulates RolJert J. Beason, of Eulonia, left, and Warren G. Garrett, of Buena Vista, on their winning scholarships to the forestry school. The two young men are the 1951 winners of the Union Bag and Paper Corporation's four year; $1,600 forestry scholarships to the forestry school.
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Beason is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Rob Beason of Eulonia. He graduated this past spring from Darien High School, where he was prominent in campus activities and outstanding in scholastic and forestry work.

Garret is a graduate of Marion County High School, Buena Vista, and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Garret. He also established an exceptional record in forestry. and scholarship.

Serving on the committee to select the winners were representatives of the 4-H and FFA Clubs of Georgia, B. E. Allen, Woodlands Division of Union Bag, State For-

ester Guyton DeLoach, and Dean D. J. Wedell of the Georgia School of Forestry.

The committee examined carefully all records concerning can-
dida tes' citizenship and s cholar-

s~ i p be fore maki ng the fi nal de-

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Uni on Bag and Paper Corporat1on

annually awards the ~wo forestry

scho larships in the 1ntere s t s of

aiding better forestry programs.

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The Georgia-Florida-Alabama Section, Forest Products Research Society, will hold its annual Fall meeting at the Daniel Ashley Hotel, Valdosta, October 5 and 6 Highlighting the session will be an address by Rear Admiral Joseph F. Jelly, top-ranking officer of the U. S. Navy Seebees and chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks and Navy Civil Engineers. The public is invited to attend all sessions. Special entertainment will be provided for women attending the meeting, with Mrs. Harley Langdale, of Valdosta, in charge.
The technical program will begin at 1 P. M. on Friday and will open with an address of welcome by Mayor Mathis of Valdosta. Following the afternoon's session will be th& annual banquet at the Valdosta Country Club, with Admiral Jelley the speaker ofthe evening.
The technical sessions wi 11 resume Saturday morning and be completed by noon. Among the principal papers to be presented at

the ga1.nering are: ''Some Pressing Problems of the Lumber Producers,'' Car1 Brice, Brice Lumber Co., Archer, Florida.
''Factors Influencing Changes in the Production of Gum Naval Stores." A. R. Shirley, secretary, American Turpentine Farmers Assn., Valdosta.
''The Solvent Recovery Process of Wood Preservqtion, '' M. S. Hudson, Taylor-Colquitt Co., Spartanburg, South Carolina.
''Small Wood Industry Business Activities in Relation to Gcvernment Programs,'' Lewis G. Fmmert, Regional Office, Department of Carunerce, Atlanta.
''Forestry Relations,' ' Everett M. Conway, Forest Utilization Section, Tennessee Valley Authority, Norris, Tennessee.
Special committees of the Society have been holding sessions
for several months to outline a program.

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An outstanding Southern sci.entist has been named techn1cal director cf Georgia's top forest
research organiza!:-ion, ?J19 ~ for-
ester.._ prom1nent 1n act1 v1 t;J.. es. of the r orest Farmers Assoc1at1on the Q_ast ~ix years, recently teft the lieorg1a scene for new duues.
The scientist is Dr. Reavis C. Sproull, who has been named to direct technical work of the Herty Laboratory in Savannah. The forester is Paul W. Schoen, who f cr the past six years has served as Executive Secretary of the Forest Farmers Association with headquarters in Valdosta. Schoen has been named Washington representative of the American Pulp and Paper Association and of theAmerican Pulpwood Association.
Addition of Dr. Sproull to the Herty staff was made possible principally thr rugh the $20, 000 increase in the annual appropriation by the Georgia Forestry Commission to the foundation. The total Commission appropr1at1on to the Foundation was raised to $30,000.
Dr. Sprrull in June, 1951, was awarded an hmorary doctor of science degree by Mercer Uni ver si ty.
Dr. Sproull prior to his appointment to the Herty lab post, was Director of the Southern Research Institute at Birmingham. He was in charge of the applied chemistry division.
Schoen received his degree in forestry in 1924 from the Pennsylvania State Forest School at Mont Alto, Penn.
After CCC and Boy Scout work in New York and Pennsylvania, he moved South in 1937 to become Dlief of the Division of Silvicul tural Research for the Texas Forest Service at College Station, Tex. In 1940 he became Chief of the Division of Forest Management, in which capacity he served until he was appointed to the Forest Farmers Association Post.

45 Counties Enter Contest

To Prevent Wildfires In State

''More than forty-five counties have entered Georgia's $1,000 forest fire prevention contest, and more applications are being received daily' ' , according to announcement by Hugh Dobbs, president of the Georgia Forestry Association, sponsor of the contest. He stressed that early entry into the contest and a quick start in the work of fire prevention will show in the contest months ahead. ''Not only will one county win the prize for use in a community-benefit project, but all competing counties will benefit immeasurably from the prevention of destructive woods fires,'' Dobbs stated.

Contest manuals have been furnished to all County Foresters and other leaders in participat ing counties. The manuals explain the methods of forming t he County Contest Councils and various committees, including an industrial committee, to find and combat the causes of fire in the county. Additional information on contest rules, regulations and methods are available from the Georgia Forestry .Association,
905 Citizens and Southern Nat-
ional Bank Building, Atlanta.

Listed among the counties which have already joined the race for the prize money are: Baldwin, Bibb, Brooks, Bryan, Bulloch, Calhoun, Carroll, Cobb, Colquitt, Coweta, Crawford, Dade, Dougherty, Decatur, Dodge, Emanuel, Jasper, lamar, Laurens, Long, Lowndes, Macon, Meriwether, Monroe, Muscogee (1st to enter) Paulding, Polk, Stephens Stewart, Talbot, Taylor, Terrell, Thomas, Treutlen, Troup, Upson, Walker, Ware, Wayne, Wheeler, and Wilkinson.
Commenting on the interest and progress to date, Dobbs urg~d.all counties, once they have J01ned the ranks of those competing, to begin immediately or organize their leadership and commit tees to
push forward with the job ?f det-
ermining the causes of f1re and the means of prevention. Emphasizing the known fact t~at most of Georgia's wild .woods fu~s are caused either by 1ncend1ar1sm of
carelessness, the Association president said, ''Our problem 1n forest fire prevention is actually people, not fire. If we can get the people to be careful with fire at all times in and around the woods, we will greatly cut the number of fires and reduce tre acreage burned. If the people
take care of fire then the fire will take care of i tsel f. "

Although we have had an abun-

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forests are still big tinderbox.

A good deal of this is due to
plain everyday carelessness.There are plenty of ins.tan~e.s on record, in fact where 1nd1v1duals have started,fires in woods and fields
without taking even the simplest
precautions.

The days of just letting fires
run their course seem about over. Or at least there is a definite move underway to impose stiffer fines and longer jail terms upon persons who continue the wanton burning of Georgia's forestlands.

Georgia Forestry Commisswner DeLoach has just warned that increasing emphasis will be placed on stricter enforcement of the state's forest fire laws. Stressing the increasingly important role to be played by enforcement officers in the past two years.

''These officers,'' he sai d, ''are trained and experienced in the law enforcement field, are using latest and most modern crime detection methods available to bring to justice those who maliciously violate our fire laws ."

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Water Control

J" NOJdh, Studh (/~ Topic Of Meet

Forestry camps continued
to h o 1d the s u mm e r s p o t 1 i g h t
in Georgia as two camps 1n wideley separated parts of the State provided boys and girls top flight training in woodlot management. On the 1ate summer cal en dar were fares try camps at Wahsega and at Laura Walker Park.
Seventy-five 4-H Club boys and girls who already excelled in forestery projects had an opportunity to learn even more about their work when they attenped the North Georgia 4-H Forestry Camp at Camp Wahsega near Dahlonega in the mountains of Lumpkin County.
Another camp, that of the 4-H Club Naval Stores group, held at Laura Walker State Park near Waycross, brought
together 100 boys and girls
who are producing and using naval stores products. AmericanTurpentine Farmers' A~sociation sponsored the camp.
Members of the Wahsega group, who earned trips to the camp on the basis of their acheivements in fares try, received intensive training in nearly all phases of woodland management.
Boys from three North Georgia districts and girls from all over the State attended the event, which is sponsored by the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company.
Extension Service forester~, representatives of the Georg1a Forestry Corrmission, and fores~ry experts from several commerc1~l concerns were instructors. D1recting the camp at ~ahsega wa~C. Dorsey Dyer, ueorg1a Extenswn Forester.
Georgia 4-H Club leaders, Extension home improvement specialists and Extension Service foresters directed the Naval Stores Camp.

Furni~ing the farm home, gum production, identific.ation and care af trees, planung ~rees, acid stimulation and market1ng of gum products, woodlandmanagement, and finishes for floor, wood, and furniture were topics of dis-
cuss1on.
Program leaders wer~ Miss Wil.lie Vie Dowdy, Extenswn SerV1ce Home Improvement Specialist; C. Dorsey Dyer, Extension Forester; Walter Chapman, Assistant Extension Forester; George B. Williams, Forester, Turpentine and Resin
Factors, Inc.; E. 0. Powers,
Field Inspector, Naval Stores Conservation Program; Ralph Clements, Southeastern Forest Experiment Station, and R. E. Hoffmeyer, Branch Manager, Sherwin Williams Company.

Of SAF Group
More than 100 persons gathered
at Gainesville, Ga., Aug. 10-11
to attend a meeting of the Geor:gia chapter, Society of Amencan Foresters.
''Forest Relation to Water Control'' was the meeting theme. The first day's session. was devo~ed to an afternoon bus1ness meet1ng and at 7 p.m. a dinner at the Princeton Hotel.
The group made a field .trip Saturday to the Coweta ExperliT1ent Station.

CUT 'EM LOW OOYS - ''There's money in that s twnp, ooys,'' says John H. Hinton, Forester, Tennessee Valley Authority, second from left as he instructs a class at the North Georgia 4-H Forestry at Camp \Vahsega. Seventy-five forestry minded boys and girls attended the camp.

8 SEPTEMBER 1951

Foresters And Rangers In The News

Rangers and Foresters in the Sixth District recently heard Jere A. Moore, Editor of theMilledgeville Union-Recorder, tell the importance of good puhlicitv methods 1n putting over wellrounded county forestry program.
Moore spoke at the invitation of B::~ldwin County Ranger Therman Strickland, who was host for the meet1ng.
'Know your edi t~r better,'' Moore advi sed the Rangers and Foresters. The Club meets monthly to hear a speaker and to conduct a roundtable on p~oblems 1n fire-fighting
Moore, who made his remarks in addressing the Sixth District Rangers' Cluh, said contacting the public through the newspaper and radio to let the people knaw what is expected of them can spell success or failure for an undertaking.
Smokey, the hre Preventing Bear, - in the flesh - is a veteran member of the Twiggs County Forestry Unit, after having served his apprenticeship of more than six months. Smokey, who now measured about 80 pounds was taken from the wilds of the Altamaha river swamps by Earl Wiegans, former Twiggs County forester. A great attraction for highway tourists and a valuable hand at making friends for the Forestry Unit among the local inhabitants, Smokey constantly exerts his efforts and directs his talents toward impressing upon all the need for fire prevention. Present plans call for some extensive tours for Smokey around the public schools and meeting places of his county as he pushes his fire prevention education during the coming months.

DEKALB FORESTER AT WORK - This photograph, which thousands of DeKalb County citizens saw in the pages of the DeKalu New Era, shows that county's Forester, Robert F. DuLaney, left, giving advice to Charlie Molton on management of the Molton woodland acres. The caption ueneath the photograph in the New Era descriiJed the management service offered at the County Forestry Unit and told citizens how they could contact DuLaney uy telephone.

Foresters in the Fourth District are convinced that fielrl demonstrations are an excellent method of convincing Georgia's veteran farm classes that woodland management is a vital part of any farm plan.
_John Hanmond, Management AsS1stant for District Four and Morris Tindall, Troup Count; Forester, recently spent a day helping R. E. Callaway, Veterans Farm instructor, of Hogan~ville ~onduct a forest management train: 1ng program f cr veteran farmers of Troup County.

Lectures on fire prevention and forest management composed the program The veterans saw a thinning demonstration and received practical experience in cruising and marking timber
'Field demonstrations,'' Hammond declared, ''have shown us that to sell forestry we must convince the farmers that good forest management will periodically produce dividends, just a does cotton or corn.''
Tindall said the single day's demonstration created an ''encouraging amount of interest'' in forestry not only among the group which attended but from many others who later learned of the demonstration and requested that similar activities he held in the future.

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Purchasing, opening, and operation of a $50,000 Georgia Forestry Corrmis sion warehouse near Macon t his month was announced by Guyton DeLoach, Commission Director.
DeLoach said the new warehouse will replace the one previously in use in Baxley. Decision to change the site was made because Macon is more centrally located in the State and more easily accessible to a greater number of County Forestry Units.
The building will house not only warehouse supplies, but vehicle and implement repair shop, engineer's office, and law enforcement headquarters.
The. site is on the old Camp Stewart property seven miles from Macon.
''We plan eventually,'' DeLoach said, '' to perform a large part of the major repair work required
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NEW WAREHOUSE - Tllese two views of the newly purchased warehouse of the Georgia Forestry Commission at Macon-were tal{en IJefore most of the machine shop supplies and equipment were moved in. The structure will house supplies, law enforcement offices, and the forest engineer's office.

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by all our County Forestry Units at this new Macon shop, thus resulting in a considerable decrease of cost of operation of these Units for the Georgia taxpayer and providing prompt emergency repair work during the dangerous fire season.''
The Commission Director explained, however, that with operation of the shop now only in its early stages, such an over-all repair service cannotbe provided.
''A good beginning has been made, though,'' he added, ''and today the shop crew is busy readying the new vehicles and equipment which will be used in the 21 counties which have come under organized forestry protection
since July 1. As each piece of
equipment becomes ready, it is inmediately rushed to the field to aid in the intensive fight the Commission will wage against wildfire during the near-at-hand dangerous forest fire season.''
Moving of nearly all equipment. and supplies from the old Baxley warehouse has now been accomplished.

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The mill site and work have long been in the Dew family, and even the present structure of brownstone and mortar dates back to
1854, according to the original
millstone which was utilized as a cornerstone for the mill building. W. F. ''Will'' Dew, the present owner and operator happily relates how he was ''bred, born and weaned on sawrnilling. ''
The mill is complete with 28inch circular headsaw, cableoperated carriage, and planer, with the jobs of head-sawyer, carriage operator, and machinist all vested in the person of Will Dew.
As a lumberman of long standing and a landowner of several hundred acres, Dew is acutely aware of the n~ed for adequate forest protection and he brags of ''no fire in my woods for many years' ' . He cooperates closely with the Gordon County Forestry Unit and encourages full cooperation on the part of all the landowners of his section of the county, and his efforts in fire protection and fo~est management are paying off da1ly as he cuts only good size, good grade logs, both from his own land and surrounding areas.

THINNING OPERATION - OweH Luke (Left) Irwin County landowner, and M. S. Aycock, Conservation Forester for Union Bag and Paper Corp., look over a portion of Luke's timberland which has been thinned for pulpwood. The trees were marked prior to cutting by Forester Aycock. The trees remainiog are now in a position to grow more rapidly into higher quality forest products. The pulpwood was cut uy Roy Land and shipped to Union 3ag's Savannah Plant.
James 0. Reed, Muscogee County Fores~er, has the honor of being the f1rst to enter his county in the Keep Georgia Green Contest ~nderway. What is equally important, Reed reports that he is going forward with the job of getting the County Contest Council, Industrial Committee and other groups formed to push the fire prevention work in his west Georgia area.

Georgia Forestry
September, 1951

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