Georgia forestry, Vol. 5, no. 11 (Nov. 1952)

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GEORGIA FORESTRY

CJitorial

Protecting Woodlands Vital

(From the Rome News Tribune)

Georgia's woodlands and forests are one of our most important crops. Forest products annually bring in more cash returns than do cotton and tobacco combined. And the woodlands are becoming more and more important, as additional industries using wood are developed, and as science finds new ways to use wood products.
Therefore, it's of vital 1mportance that we protect and expand our forests. No matter how small an area is involved, timberlands must be protected against fire or careless damage. And the areas from which timber is cut must be replanted.
The pulp and paper industry in the South is setting an example
for all to follow, in the pro-
tection and expansion of wood-
lands. A survey shows that the

pulp and paper industry in the South has been responsible for having planted 277 million pine trees during the past five years. And the number of trees planted
has increased each year during
that period. Five years ago, 26
million treeswereplanted. This year a peak of 74 million trees is being reached.
This planting activity by the pulpwood industry has converted
277,000 acres ofworthless land into productive forests. About 200, 000 acres of the land was owned by
individuals, to whom the pulpwood industry contributed the trees.
Protection and expansion of forests is a job for industry, organizations, and individuals. It will mean billions of dollars to the future of this section.

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GEORGIA FORESTRY
November, 1952 Published Monthly
by the GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION,
State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia. Guyton DeLoach, Dtrector

No. 11

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 IJlatter at the Post

Office under the Act of August 24, 1912. Member of the Georgia

Press Association.



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Patricia McKemie

DISTRICT OFFICES, GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION:

DISTRICT I-P. 0. Box 268, Statesboro

DISTRICT VI-P. 0. Box 404, Milledgeville

DISTRICT 11-P. 0. Box 26, Camilla -

DISTRICT VII-Route 1, Rome

DISTRICT III-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, Gamesville

DISTRICT V-P. 0. Box 96, McRae

DISTRICT X-P. 0 .. Box 302, Washington

Forestlands
Becoming Key
To Prosperity
(From th~ Daily 'Tifton Gazette)
As each year passes, trees are becoming more of the keys that open the door of prosperity in Tift County and in Georgia.
The products of our woodland acres are enriching more people and, in addition, the new forests are storing up assets for years to come whichwill benefit future generations.
Other sections of America look to oils and minerals for natural wealth, but these resources can become exhausted in a comparatively short span of time. They are non-renewable.
Georgia's trees, however, are renewable annually like an 1nsurance policy. The wealth potential of our forest lands is almost limitless.
There are many acres right here in Tift County that can be put to growing trees and will yield a perp~tual harvest, if proper forest management is used. More fire lanes cut, more thinning, more selective cutting, and more trees planted each year would not only improve the stand of timber, but would also provide more protection against soil erosion, produce more timber for construction, and furnish more raw materials for industry.
Everyone can have a share in protecting and nurturing our valuable forest lands.
One ' way any citizen can help is to guard against the greatest
enemy of trees: Fire. A cigarette thrown carelessly
from an auto can start a milliondollar forest fire.
When you're in the woods, or near wooded areas, remember to heed the AOC'Sof fire prevention: ''Always Be Careful.''
You can help fight woods fires by reporting those you see. The telephone numbers in Tifton are
1602, day, and 1112-M, night.

NOVEMBER, 1952

AFA Praises Talmadge
As Forestry Advocate

Georgia's Governor Herman E. Talmadge has been presented one of the American Forestry Association's five annual conservation awards for 1952.
Presentation ceremonies were held in Asheville, N.C., at the Association's 77th yearly meeting. U.S. Representative W.M. A bitt, of Virginia, presented the coveted award to the Governor and to five other national figures in the field of conservation.
The Congressman, an ardent conservationist himself, praised Governor Talmadge as a conservation leader ''not only in his own state, but in the entire South.
''Your speeches,'' he told the Georgia governor, ' 'your radio and press interviews and public statements have stimulated a wide interest in extensive use and perpetuation of your state's 25 million acres of forestland, its
wild,l,ife, and its water resour-
ces.
Governor Talmadge was acclaimed for his support of a state-wide forest fire control bill, his av CNed determination to bring the entire state under an organized forestry pr ~ram within the next two years, his interest in tree planting and his active campaign for passage of legislation
Georgia's prominence in the world of forestry was emphasized before a national gathering of foresters as Governor Herman E. Talmadge received one of the American Forestry Association's five annual conservation awards. Our November cover shows U. S. Representative W. M. Abbitt presenting the award at the Association's annual meeting, Asheville.

creating the Georgia Forestry Commission and a state board of registration for foresters. He also was commended for spearheading legislation and authorizing finances that have made Georgia one of the most progressive states in the South in forest conservation and forest betterment practices.

Hugh Dobbs, President, Georgia Forestry Association, nominated the Governor for the special nation-wide award. The Georgia Governor's conservation record was reviewed along with scores of other nominees from throughout the nation by a five-man awards committee headed by Robert N. Hoskins, Forester, Seaboard Air Line Railway.
The committee's final five selections, and their fields for selection, were Governor Talmadge, public service; W. S. Rosecrans, Los Angeles civic and business leader and chairman of the California Board of Forestry, public service; Ovid Butler, OlevyChase. Maryland, distinguished forester and veteran conservation writer and editor, education; Howard C. Fetterolf, chief of agricultural education for the state of Pennsylvania, education, and Ernest
WALNUT PLAQUE '... outstanding service.''

ERLE COCKE SPEAKS Reforestation Story
L. Kurth, Texas Lumberman and paper mill executive, industry.
A walnut plaque engraved ''In recognition of outstanding service in the conservation of American resources, of soil, water, and forests.'' was presented the award winners. Awards carry with them life memberships in the American Forestry Association.
Other award committee members were Representative Abbitt; Milton M. Bryan, U. S. Forest Service, ~. M. D. Mobley, executive secretary, American Vocational Agricultural Association, and Fred Morrell, retired Washington representative, American Pulp
and Paper Association.
Erle Cocke, President, Fulton National Bank, and reforestation leader in the business and industrial world, delivered the keynote address at the presentation banquet.
Speaking on Georgia's role in reforestation, he outlined the part played by banks of the state in cooperation with railroads and conservation, forest, and agriculture agencies in purchasing tree planting machines.
Another Georgian, Charles Connaughton, Regional Forester, Region 8, U. S. Forest Service, had addressed the meeting ear1ier on ''Forest Management and Research in the Southern Appalachians for Watershed Protection.''

Ri~~o::rge~:~~~=:e, DISTRICT FORESTER MILES KOGER, LEFT PHOTO, ADDRESSES GROUP
CutsRibbon inSpecia!Ceremony

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Celebrates Grand Opening

Several hundred persons from throughout South Central Georgia

enjoyed hospitality of the Ocmul-

gee Forestry District at a dedi-

cation of the new 5th District

Headquarters on Sunday after-

noon, October 15. The standout

affair included the addresses of

prominent officials, official

opening of the 5th District head-

quarters with a ribbon cutting

ceremony and an open house.



Serving as master of ceremonies for the afternoons celebration was C. M. Jordan, member of the Board of Commissioners,

Georgia Fares try Corrmission.
Speaking to the group were H. E. Fuark, Assistant Director, Geargia Forestry Cnmmission and Miles Koger 5th District Forester. Also introduced during the course of the speaking were Forestry Board members, office personnel and County Foresters and Rangers of the 5th District. All counties in the District were represented.
Mr. George Callahan, Mayor of McRae,snipped the broad green ribbon across the headquarters doorway, thereby officially placing the beautiful new building in use.

'HOUSEWARMING' DRAWS IN1ERESTED PUBLIC FROM TIIROUGHOUT SOUnt GEORGIA Long Lines Gather To View New Fifth Distrtct Headquarters At Ocmulgee

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the hardwoo~-studded foot-hills

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last month began orestry lessons manner- via the

rad10 auwaves and a ''musical

forestry'' program entitled,' 'The

Swingbillies .. '' .Produced th1s year.by .the Gear-
g1a Forestry Cnrrm1ss1on, the series of 15-minute radio shows was presented to the public for the first time in October.
Led by the singing master of ceremon1es, Ray McCay, who also al?pears regular! y with his hillb1 l~y band on TV, the Swingbillies dunng the past few weeks have been making themselves - and the colorful lore of Georgia's forest world- known in hundreds of homes throughout the state.

During one minute spot announcements interspersed in the pro-

grams, County Rangers and Fores-

ters have brought local forestry

messages which have aroused en-
thusiastic comment. Messages from the F~restry Unit leaders highlight outstanding causes of

forest fires in their respective

areas, pinpoint their appeals for fire prevention to special

groups, announce special forestry event, proceedures for plant-

ing seedlings, and management services available from the

Commission.

NOVEMBER , 1952

Chicago Bound

Collins, Willis Win

4-H Forestry Honors

Mitchell County's Chappell Collins andTiftCounty's Jean Willis have been declared top winners among t he 1952 statewide 4-H forestry competitions.
Attending last month's statewide 4-H Club meeting in Atlanta the two youthful contenders won out over a stiff competive field of top-ranking district winners in forestry competition from throughout Georgia.
As guests of Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company, sponsors of 4-H Forestry in Georgia, both will go to Chicago, where they will attend the annual national 4-H Club convention. Collins will vie for the national 4-H forestry champion title which carries with it a $300 college scholarship from American Forest Products Industries, Inc.
Although girls are not allowed to enter the national forestry event, Miss Willis will be at the Chicago convention " .. to show 4-H' ers in other states that we Georgia girls know our forestry too."
JEA N WI L L I S , WI T H D I 8 8 L E Miss Helen Zachos Helps

Collins, a veteran of seven years' 4-H work in Camilla, demonstrated before fellow 4-H'ers, judges, and advi sors at Atlanta's Piedmont Park that ''Pruning Pines Pays.'' Armed with charts citing figures from actual forest operations in which operational and harvesting statistics from pruned and non-pruned stands were compared, the Mitchell County youth showed pruning tools and gave an actual demonstration of pruning operations.
Collins' 1952 victory marked his second statewide 4-H crown. In 1951 he won the state 4-H dairy contest.
Miss Willis, of Tift County's Brooksfield Community has been in 4-H work for frur years. Using Piedmont Park as her demonstration site also, she showed proper methods of reforestation.
Ten other district winners competed for the state title by presenting special forestry demonstrations.
Roger Than, of Atkinson County, opened the contest session with a demonstration on the preservative treatment of fence posts.
Frank Hardee, of Baxley, Appling County, demonstrated how to cruise timber.
George Copeland, of Bartow County, a three-year veteran of 4-H work, utilized a novel methoci to illustrate his talk, ''What's in a Tree.'' Using a large, hollowed log as a speaker's rostnlJTl, he lifted out from the log eac~ forest product which he described - paper, turpentine, building mater1al s and many others.
Carl Walker, Augusta, Richmond
County, described to the group the advantages o f protecting his count y's timberland from the ravages of i nsects , d i sease, and fi re .
Guy Rut l and, of Polk County, to l d t he gr oup t he story o f forestry and of forest f i re protection in his county.
Jean Gainous, of Grady County, opened t he girls' c ompetition by demonst r ating ''How To Protect t he Farm Woodland.''

CHAPPELL COLLINS
Points On Pruning
Gladys Brown, who for the past six years has followed 4-H work in Hancock County, described ' 'How the Tree Grows. ' '
Velda Hayes, Catoosa County, also described mahy species of trees, demonstrated several instruments used by the farm forester, and gave a graphic presentation of the advantages of thinning pines.
Elizabeth Hendrix, of Charlton County, managed to keep some 20 samples of Georgia trees she presented for her demonstration nearly as fresh as the day she gathered them in South Georgia. This was accomplished by wrapping the samples in newspapers and ''plenty of stops for water en route to keep the packages wetted down." She described how to identi fy the trees and listed the chief commercial uses of each species.
Barbara Jones, of Upson County, demonstrated methods of re forestat i on , using plant i ng t ools and s eedl ings for a ''real- l ife'' demonstration in Piedmont Pa rk.
J udges were Howard Doyl e, Area Forester, Southern Pulpwood Conservation Associ at ion; J. F. Spiers, Forester, Central of Georgia Railroad, and Dorsey Dyer, Extension Forester, Georgia Agricultural Extension Service.
Dyer and Walter Chapman, Assistant Extension Forester, Georgia Agricultural Extension Service, officiated at the demonstration.

Nurseries
Lift, Ship

A. D. OSBORNE, BERRIEN COUNTI FORESTRY BOARD MEMBER, ADDRESSES GROUP OUtlines Value of Forestry Unit's Activities To Citizens of County
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Malliz ~owelt Food, forestry and farming was the order of the day as approximately 1,000 South Georgians gathered in Berrien County Sat-
urday, October 18, for the dedi-
cation of the Cat Creek Forestry Fire Lookout Tower.
Serving as Master of Ceremonies for the event was A. D. Osborne, member of the Berrien County Forestry Board and President of the Farm Bureau. Highlighting the day's festivities was an address by H. E. Ruark, Assistant Director of the Georgia Forestry Commis-

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sion, and official christening of the tower by beauteous Miss Amelia McMillian, Eighth District Farm Bureau Queen. Miss McMillian smilingly splashed the traditional bottle of gum turpentine upon the steel structure of the 100 foot forest sentinel post.
Puark told of the purpose of the tower and related the fact that the construction of the tower was financed by the Forestry Commission. He extended particular thanks to all persons in the coun; ty who aided in the start of the operation of the Berrien County Forestry Unit and paid particular tribute to Warren Futch, who donated the land for the tower site.
Jim Swindell, Berrien County Representative addressed the group and voiced strong support of

DEDICATION SCENES--Cat Creek forest fire lookout tower, left was the scene of the dedication. An old fashioned barbecue, South Georgia style, below was an important part of th~ day's activities.

Seedlings
Shipments of the first of 55 million forest seedlings, which during coming weeks will be distributed to every county in Georgia, began this month in the Georgia F~restry Comnission' s four nurser1es.
Lifting operations at Davisboro, Flowery Branch, Albany and Hightower nurseries are geared to accomplish removal of seedlings fran beds as rapidly as orders can be assembled and shipped.
First step in removal is performed by ahigh-set tractor pulling an under-cutting blade. The tractor, mounted on large wheels which run in tracks between beds, pulls a blade which cuts under tree roots and loosens soil so that workers can easily and safely disengage roots from earth. Seedlings are gathered into boxes for transporting to the nursery shed.
Assembly line methods are used in inspecting, counting and bundling seedlings for shipment. As the boxes reach the shed, seedlings are placed on a grading belt
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the forestry program ~nd the results being obtained. Also participating in the days ceremonies was Reverend 0. E. Graves, who delivered the invocation at the opening, and D. D. Vickrey, Berrien County Agent.
Following the formal ceremony, the entire group enjoyed a delicious South-Georgia-style barbecue prepa red and served by 8th District personnel and theirwives.

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County fair time, as much a part of the Georgia autumn scene as pumpkin pie, falling leaves, and hunting season, means forestry exhibit time in hundreds of communities throughout the state.
~1os t of the Georgia Forestry Commission's 118 County Forestry Units began planning early this year for their fall county fair exhibits. With the Atlanta office of the Commission supplying 10 new three-panel exhibits for use by field personnel, County Rangers and County Foresters were able to offer a new and varied presentation of the familiar but important ''Prevent Woods Fire_ Manage Timber Wisely'' theme.
The ear1iest fall stirrings of Georgia's county fair time are to
be found in the northern part of

the state, and, as a consequence, Forestry Districts Seven and Nine were among the earliest of those in which County Forestry Units prepared fair exhibits. The fair season for District 10 followed shortly afterward, and as the fall season continues, the fair season rolls southward.
Exhibit emphasis this year seemed equally divided between forest fire prevention and suppression, scientific forest management, and products and benefits of the forest.
Up in Northeast Georgia, a new Smokey Bear made his appearance. A ''native'' of a small community near Dahlonega, the bear made its fair debut at the Polk County fair as part of a wildlife-forestry
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FIRE CALL--Those who attended the Coosa Valley Fair in Floyd County saw how fire calls are received and how vehicles and men are dispatched to the fire scene.

TIIOSE ATT~DING SOUDIEASTERN FAIR IN A'ILANTA ARE FACED WITH COMMISSION' S "BURNING Q.lJESTION" Turntable Exhibit, Circular Photos, Shows 'Before' and 'After' Look to Stress Wildfire Danger

HOWARD DO YLE, SOUmERN PULPWOOD CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION'S FORESTER, DESCRIBES THINNING Photo At Right, Georgia Forestry Commission Fire Control Chief H. E. Ruark, With Microphone

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BA(]{PUMP LESSON W. N. Stone Teaches

More than 1,000 central Georgians gathered last month near Mussella to watch a twentieth century agricultural tran~formation
--a transformation in which forestry played a leading role.
Assembling on the rolling, red acres of the Robert Harris property the group saw an array of specialized conservation implements perform a six-hour renovation task which left the Harris farmland a model of modern-day agricultural efficiency.
Farmers attending were given ample proof of the part that for-

estry plays in the modern day farm plan as personnel from the Sixth Forestry District, Georgia ForestryCommission, and ~he Crawford County Forestry Unit conducted a combined fire suppression-forest management demonstration.
With H. E. Ruark, Georgia Forestry Commission Fire Control Chief, directing the demonstration, District Forester Walter N. Stone and Crawford County
Ranger J. H. Rigdon demonstrated
fire fighting equipment used to suppress the ravaging flames
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A GOVERNOR, A QUEEN, AND A STATE FORESTER- -Miss Anne Miller, Mississippi's Queen of the Forests, greets the Governor of her state, Hugh L. White left, and Guyton DeLoach, Director, Georgia Fores-

Commission, right. DeLoach addressed the recent annual banquet of the Mississippi Forestry and Chemurgic Association in Jackson, Mississippi. ''Georgia's Forest Progress'' was his topic.

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NOVEMBER, 1952

Foresters And Rangers In The News

''The Waycross Public Library has just completed a very sucessful reading club, using as its theme, 'Keep Georgia's Forests
Green','' writes Mrs. Jas. E. Womacks, librarian, in a letter to Guyton ~loach, Director, Georgia Forestry Commission.
In citing the good work done by H. F. Osborne, Ware County Ranger, and R. H. Tift, Assistant District Forester in Charge of Management, Eighth District, Mrs. Womacks, said: "A large degree of the success of the year's program was due to the fine cooperation of the Georgia Forestry Commission in the Waycross Area. I especially want to mention Mr. Bob Tift and Mr. F. A. Osborne, who secured and helped to place posters and reading materials; and Mr. Tift provided three films to entertain the boys and girls (on the last club day) . . . . Our job at the library was made much easier because of the help from these two men.
''I hope that this program will help in some way to bring the boys
and girls to know the importance of protecting our forests.''

discussed their forestry work as it affects Wilcox County. Members of the Forestry Board presented included Scott James, of Pineville; J. C. Studstill Jr., o Abbev:blle; L. 0. Peebles, of Pitts, and L. G. Tippins, Jr., of Rochelle.

J. C. Eahnsen, local conservationist, explained the cooperative tie between forestry and soil conservation.
Following the program, a chicken supper prepared by the Legion members was served .

CONE COLLECTION SCENES--R. L. Drury, Coffee-Atkinson County Ranger, left, and B. S. Booth, District Ranger District 8, Georgia Forestry Commission, collect pine cones atthe Quincy Merritt property near Douglas. Scenes like this, as well as the one shown below, have been familiar throughout the state during recent months as the Georgia Forestry Commission headed a cone collection drive to obtain forest seedlings for its nurseries.

Chicken, Legionnaires, and foresters were successful!y combined recently when the Abbeville American Legion invited County Forester Thomas W. Ritter and the wilcox County Forestry Unit to a social meeting.
The Legion asked the Unit to appear on the first program in a series designed to bring to its members first-hand infocmation concerning the services available in the county.
E. M. Cannon, Jr., County Forestry Board Chairman, and master of ceremonies, introduced Fifth District Forester Miles S. Koger, Assistant Districe Forester ~1. I.. Pierce, and Forester Ritter, who

GEORGIA FORESTRY 9

Gordon News Lauded

For Keep Green Issue

The Gordrn County News has been

cited by Publishers' Auxi1iary, a

publication for those in news-

paper work, for its recent ''Keep

''What you, as an individual, do Gordon County Green'' edition.

within the next six months may

The Article read as follows:

make or break your co unty's chances ''The Second annual 'Keep Gorden

of setting new records in forest County Green' edition of the

protection and improvement. You may Gordon County News, issued in

be the deciding factor in winning a cooperation with the state for-

share of $2,000 for your county.'' estry department, county ranger,

Thus B. M. Lufburrow emphasized other interested agencies and

the importance of each individ- business concerns, included 16

ual's actions for the duration of pages in two sections.

the Georgia Forestry Association's

Keep Georgia Green protection and

' 'Mr. and Mrs. James H. Hobgood,

fire prevention contest, which editor and associate editor res-

closes with the annual meeting of pectively, again printed the

the Association in April. As the edition in green ink. The for-

Associations Executive Secretary, estry and other agencies wrote

Lufburrow has been contacting the feature articles on recom-

many civic organizations through- mended conservation practices

out the state trying to put across and fire safety precautionary

the idea that "forestry progress measures. Pictures showed fire-

in Georgia is based on the acti- fighting equipment.

vities of our citizens. ' 'Our Association is at ...t!mpting
to help not only the state and county, but the farmer, housewife, businessman, student and every person in our state, by making forestry in Georgia a prosperous, permanent factor in our state's economy'' Lufburrow stated.
''We feel that the individual is so important in this better forests drive that in judging con-

''A page-one editorial said that Georgia's reduction by half in the last year of her acres destroyed by fire was attributed to the publicity in such JUblications as the News and cooperation of the public in the program. ' '
The News has received wide-spread recognition for its fire-prevention efforts with newspapers as far away as the Nassau Record, of Cal-

testants, 60 percent of the jud?ing will be based on the county s local initiative shown during the campaign. It's certain that only people can improve the forest situation in Georgia - people like you and me. Forest fires 99 out of 100 times are directly
caused by men, women and children. "
''In Georgia forests, forest industries, forest employment, forest recreation, and forest protection of soil are important to every person. Our woods contribute a major portion to our state's
income. But this condition could change suddenly. As suddenly as

ating in the organized forest protection program of the Georgia Forestry Commission. Lufburrow stressed the importance of every county entering the contest at an early date, ''no matter whether the county was organized to protect its forests in 1902 or 1952, it has an equal chance to win first place in this year's contest, but the longer a county waits to enter its application, the better chance every other county has to beat the late entries. A county will have lost much ground in the contest once the forest fire season gets underway. Now is the

a forest fire spreads. That is the time to organize, to delegate

reason for our contest--to try to duties to committees, groups and

perpetuate our great forestwealtli' individuals, to publicize the

This year the Association has

fact that your county wants a

opened its doors to entries from green growing woodland that is

every county in the state cooper- free of fire.

lahan, Florida, writing for sample . copies of the green edition.
The Gordon County News is not the only Georgia newspaper receiving well-deserved praise for encouraging citizens to Keep Georgia's forests Green. As fashion experts predict green as'' the color'' this season, green ink is in ever increasing demand, and more and more newspapers throughout the state are joining the parade of special editions.
More than 25 papers have printed at least one Keep Green edition, and many are now starting on the second go-round.
Educators
Meet Spurs
Forest Work Educational and forestryminded groups from Georgia and other southern states joined together recently in recommending action to increase the number of students in forestry and to expand research at schools of forestry.
At the two-day meeting of the Southern Regional Education Board conference in. Atlanta, representatives from Georgia, Tennessee, the Carolinas, Alabama, Texas, Louisiana, Virginia,
Florida and Arkansas recommended a vigorous campaign among high school groups to attract qualified students to the profession of forestry, and also proposed fellowships to aid promising students. A sub-group headed by
President 0. C. Aderhold, of the
University of Georgia, drafted the proposals.
The thinking of industry, state and federal forestry agencies was combined with the educators findings on how the Regional Program recently undertaken by six forestry schools in the south can serve to develop forestry resources that now represent a billion dollar asset.

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MORE COUNTY FAIR SCENES--Walton County citizens learned more about their Forestry Unit through an impressive exhibit and distribution of literature, photo at left. DeKalb Forester R. F. DuLaney, center photo, shows his exhibit to Sandra Moseley. Polk County Ranger James carter, Right photo, exhibited a live "Smokey" at the county fair.

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and moved down the 1ine of workers. Each plant is carefully inspected and broken and damaged or poor grade trees, discarded, leaving only the good, healthy seedlings to be counted and tied into bundles of 100.
Enough of the bundles are collected to fill each order, and the assembly line packs damp moss around roots and wraps the order in bur lap. After wrapping, the order is bound together and labeled for shipping to the purchaser. All bundles are periodically dampened to keep roots from drying out before delivery.
Months of hard work, much expense, and careful, continuous attention go into the successful raising of each pine seedling produced at the nurseries. The Commiss ion sells seedling at less than the cost of production in order to make seedlings available at the lowest possible cost to farmers and landowners.
Seedling purchasers are cautioned by the Commission to use proper planting proceedures to insure survival.

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Exhibits...

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which threaten Georgia's valuable woodlands.

exhibit set up by Polk County Ranger James Carter. A stuffed deer added another wildlife note to several other forestry exhibits in the Northeast Georgia area.
The Georgia Forestry Corrmission's two automatic slide projectors- the ''Selectroslides,'' were in constant use at county fairs throughout Georgia
Heading the 1ist of exhibits was the ~Corrmission's display at the Southeastern Fair in Atlanta. This marked the first time the Forestry Corrmission was exhibited in ''America's No. 1 Fair." A towering, eight-foot tall Smokey Fear cutout pane~ a selectroslide, a three-panel display and a turntable constant! y revolving contrasting a burned and unburned area highlighted this exhibit.
Many County fair enthusiasts in District 10 once again had an opportunity to pick up a telephone at their county fair and hear a fire prevention message. The exhibit was constructed by District Forester J. C. Turner, Jr., and Padio Technician P. B. Whitehurst.

Methods of detecting and crossout fires with the aid of a dispatcher's map were demonstrated. The Georgia Forestry Commission's new fire detection plane played a prominent part in the program, as ground to plane and plane to ground communications were demonstrated.
Howard Doyle, Area Forester, Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association, described selective cutting methods
H. L. Wingate, President, Georgia Farm Bureau Association, d~ livered the principal address.
Crawford County's FFA chapter, under direction of J. J. Lowrey, served a barbecue lunch.
Others participating in the Crawford County Farm Renovation day were H. G. Breedlove, who was in charge of preparing land for seedling, harrowing, discing, fertilizing and seeding; and C. E. Thaxton, who described purposes and objectives of the renovation program.

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