OWNERSHIP OF GEORGIA'S WOODLANDS 100% 9.7 d! 70 16% 4.3% STAT OVP. ANI) ~ooo f"EOEJW\L ACRES IOOOto 5000 AcRES UNOEP, 1000 -AcRES TOTAL fVP.,VSOOY GEORGIA FORESTRY CJitorial Trees As A Crop (From the Rockmart Journal) Farmers of Polk County who are efforts are going toward a pro- GROWING trees, rather than duct which is as much a farm crop LETTING the trees grow by them- as are cotton. corn, or tobacco. selves, are the ones who will Growing trees, rather than make money fran their forests. letting them grow, means taking With 130,790 acres of our county in forestland, the Polk County Forestry Unit points out there are few farms in this area without sizable amounts of woodland acreage. Farmers who merely LET .that woodland acreage grow, as advantage of the latest findings in the vast field of scientific forestry. Today these findings are available to the Polk County farmer and landowner from a Farm Forester especially assigned to this district by the Georgia Forestry Commission. Your Polk they would let a stream run through their property, neither County Forestry Unit will be glad to secure the services of this discouraging nor encouraging its continuance, are failing in one point. Farm Forester, Sam Thacker, for any citizen of this crunty desiring them. They are failing to look on their trees as a cash crop, a crop to be encouraged, to be protected from disease and fire, and eventually , to be harvested with a resultant pr.ofit in dollars and cents. Farmers who GROW trees, how- Following his recommendations, which emphasize strongly such factors as keeping wildfire from the woodlot, practicing sound selective cutting methods to insure an income from your tree crop to the best financial advantage, can mean money in the ever, can be assured that their pockets of Polk County farmers. Vol. 5 GEORGIA FORESTRY August, 1952 Published Monthly by the GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION, State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia. Guyton DeLoach, Director No.8 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. * * * * EADSITSOORC-I-A---TE-----E--D---I--T--O----R---S--_--_--_-'_--_--_-__-_--_--_-_-__-___-_-__-_--_--_-_-__-_-R-o-b--e-rt_RR uEt.heDrfaovrids Patricia McKemie * * * * DISTRICT OFFICES, GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION: DISTRICT 1-P. 0. Box 268, Statesboro DISTRICT VI-P. 0. Box 404, Milledgeville DISTRICT 11-P. 0. Box 122, Camilla DISTRICT VII-West Building, Rome DISTRICT 111-P. 0. Box 169, Americus DISTRICT VIII-F. 0. Box 811, Waycross DISTRICT IV-P. 0. Box 333, Newnan DISTRICT IX-P. 0. Box 416, Gainesville DISTRICT V-P. 0. Box 328, McRae DISTRICT X-P. 0. Box 302, Washington Forest Protectio1 Like Insurance (From The Gainesville uaily Times At long last Hall County has become part ofGeorgia' s forest fire protection network. Since lY48, when The Daily Times pointed out that tower watchmen in Habersham County were forced to sit idly and witness fires burning across the county line, we have waited for the day when the burning of the woods would mean, at the very least, that some opposition would be organized. Forest supplies-timber, furniture, fuel, shuttles-the millions of dollars growing like a crop from our ground--require protection because a sizeable chunk of our economy depends on what the trees produce. Now that Hall County's unit will be organized, the citizens of the county may do something they have lacked the opportunity to do previous! y. They may, when thev observe the woods burning, phone 1140 and report the fire. In former days, they could merely stand by, inactive. Nbw, when they call, they know that someone will come to fight the fire and try to extinguish it. Foresters hope that people who sight fires will report them immediately. Two new towers will he constructed, of course, at advantageous points, but the professionals may miss a fire and volunteers must report it. Everyone in the county who realizes the importance of our forest products and the great investment we have in them, will applaud the unit, lend 1t assistance and cooperation, and be proud of the fact that, though 1 somewhat late, Hall County has become a part of an outstanding and worthwhile program. Small, private ownership is dominant in Georgia' s forestlands. More than 70 per cent of all the state' s woodlands are in holdings of less than 1, 000 acres. The public owns the forests--the rublic benefits from the forests--the public must protect, conserve am properly utilize these forests. AUGUST, 1952 2 Seu.udle :JJ;,dJUct e~ete; New. eOUH,teu jiUH. Forestry District No. 7 has become the second district in the state with 100 per cent forest fire protection on all its 16 counties and its nearly two and a half million acres of woodland. Addition of Catoosa County to the ranks of organized forestry units placed the Seventh District in the 100 per cent class. The Seventh, under District Forester F. J. Pullen, was the second district in the state in which organized forestry units serve all counties. District 1 also has all its counties under organized forest protection. Ente!'ing the organized ranks last month with Catoosa County was Clay County, in District 2. Addition of Clay, with its 84,296 acres of forestland, increased the Second District forestland area under organized protection to the 1io94c1~u1n7t3ieascriens . Di Thirteen of strict 2 now are under protection. Addition of the two counties brought the total of forestry units in Georgia to 117 and the total acres under protection to 20,454,812 leaving only 4, 724, 152 acres of unprotected timberland in Georgia. Catoosa County is in the extreme northwestern part of the State and adjoins Tennessee. Clay is located on the western side of south Georgia on the Alabama border. County Forestry Boards for the two new Counties have been selected. The Boards appointed County Foresters prior to the Georgia Forestry Commission's annual Ranger-Forester Training School held at Jekyll Island July 13-19, where the Catoosa and Clay County Foresters received full instructions in the operation and purpose of a County Forestry Unit. DeLoach Summarizes 1951-52 Forestry Progress Outlined by Commission ' 'As the records of the Georgia Forestry Commission were closed last month on the 1951- '52 fiscal year," reported Guyton DeLoach, State Forester and Commission Director, ''it was evident that Georgia is making progress in its campaign to make all its citizens conscious of the vast forest wealth that surrounds them and that within the next few years, the state as a whole will benefit more and more from this ever-growing appreciation of one of the state's greatest natural resources - her forests. ''This year," the Director continued, ''every Georgian can be proud of the tremendous advances made in all phases of forestry, not only by the Georgia Forestry Commission, but by the many forest industries, associations and groups devoted to ad- vancing the state's vast woodland interests. We have seen more constructive forestry programs launched for the betterment of our forests this year than in any previous year of Georgia history.'' DeLoach said that without the cooperation of Georgia's newspapers, radio stations, civic, fraternal, educational and agricultural groups, his organization would never have been able to accomplish so much during the past year. He lauded such groups as the 4-H clubs, Future Farmers of America, Boy and Girl Scouts and other youth organizations for their forestry activities. ''Such organizations,'' DeLoach said, ''as the Georgia Forestry Association, Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association and (Continued on Page 10) BATTLE AGAINST SUMMER WILDFIRES-- George LYons, of the DeKalb County Forestry Unit, plows a wide firebreak to halt one of the many summertime forest fires which have harassed Georgia during one of its most severe droughts in history. Many fires were mused by brush burning while others were the result of carelessness of campers, hunters, fishermen and motorists. 3 GEORGIA FORESTRY Reforested Land Certified As Tree Farm Seventy-five Barrow COunty citizens recently viewed a green, growing example of how forestry fits into the modern farm plan as they attended a Tree Farm dedicat ion program on the rolling acres of the R. F. Calloway farm, ''Green Pastures,'' nine miles s ruth of Winder. Sponsored by the Barrow County forestry Unit and the Ninth District Office, Georgia Forestry Commission, the program included both a fence post preservation demonstration and the certificate presentation. C. 0. Maddox, chairman of the Barrow County Forestry Board, presented the tree farm certificate, symbol of a well-managed Georgia woodland, to Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Calloway. ''This tree farm,'' he pointed rut,' 'with its demonstration site m which we are now assembled, is truly representative of a century's trend in forestry practices, not only in our nation, but in our own state and county. This site was a virgin forest many years ago. The forest was destroyed, the land put under cultivation. ''Years of cultivation,'' the board chairman added, ''wore out (Continued on Page 9) 1oo% e~ e~peaed 'l~e ~7/14. SeuJdeoaea One hundred per cent participation is expected in the Georgia Forestry Association's sec md annual Forest Fire Prevention Contest by the 117 eligible counties, as entries from all over the state pour into the Association's Atlanta headquarters. ''It will probably be the end of this month," Hugh W. Dobbs, Association President, explained, "before all entries are in, but well arer half of the 117 e ligi- bles already have shown their interest and willingness to cooperate in this undertaking to better Georgia's forestlands.'' The Contest, open to all counties cooperating with the fire control system of the Georgia Forestry Cannission on July 1, 1952, offers $2,000 in prizes to counties showing the most improvement in their forest fire situation during the year. Dobbs listed the fourfold purpose of the contest as: 1. To reduce the number of forest fires in each c runty. 2. To reduce the total acreage burned. 3. To stimulate interest 1n better forest protection. 4. To create a greater sense of personal responsibility regarding forest fire prevention among all citizens ~ every man, wanan and child. ''The most important single point in this campaign, ' ' the President emphasized, ''is that it centers responsibility squarely on the shoulders of the individual citizen in every county. That is where fire prevention must start if we are to reduce forest fires and thus lower the acreage burned. We are trying to bring every citizen to the realization that forest fire prevention is a personal responsibility.'' Two important changes have been made in this year's contest . . B. M. Lufburrow, Executive Sec- retary of the Association, pointed rut that every county cooperating in the Georgia Forestry Commission's fire protection program ''is eligible to enter and to win, whether the county has been under crganized protection for 10 years or only since the first of July.'' ''The basis for judging this year, ' ' Lufburrow stated, ' 'gives all counties a fair chance be- (Continued on Page 9) ALL SMILES t Georgia's newest Tree Farmers, lllr. FENCE POST TREATING-- A feature of the dedica- and Mrs. R. F. calloway smile approval after tion ceremonies of the Calloway Tree Farm was being presented their tree farm certificate and a demonstration of the preservative treatment porcelain sign. At right, is Mr. C. 0. Maddox, of fence posts by Raymond Hill, Assistant Dis- Chairman, Barrow County Forestry Board. trict Forester, Ninth District. AUGUST, 1952 4 Record Production of Tree Seedlings Anticipated At Commission Nurseries The largest crop of forest tree seedlings ever produced by Georgia's state nurseries is anticipated this year as latest inventories indicate a production of more than 56 million. However, Corrmission officials in giving the results of the inventory emphasized the fact that many adverse conditions could still arise to greatly reduce the production. During the 1949-50 planting season, Georgia led the 11 southern states: in reforestation with 44,487,075 pine seedlings, representing an all-time high production of seedlings lifted and shipped from Georgia's three state nurseries. Since that time the Georgia F cres try Comnission has opened a fourth nursery, the Hightower Tree Nursery, on the GainesvilleDawsonville Highway in Dawson County, which is expected to account for 8, 700,000 Loblolly Pine this year. Production at the Flowery Branch nursery will probably reach 6,651,000 Slash Pine; 132,000 Arizona Cypress, and 78,000 White Pine. At the Davisboro Nursery, more than 24 million seedlings are forecast for the 1952-'53 planting season. Slash pine seedlings represent 21, 500,000 of the total, sired and the cash payment are with the remainder consisting of correct be fore orders are sent in. 2,750,000 Loblolly Pine; 360,000 He said those orders found incor- Longleaf Pine; 36,000 Red Cedar; rect in either of these two res- 500 Arizona Cypress, and 1,000 pects will be returned. Yellow Poplar. Herty Nursery is planning to Prices for seedlings remain the same this year as in the past. All lift 16 million seedlings comprised of 15,080,000 Slash; 477,000 Loblolly; 341,000 Longleaf; 20,500 Black Locust; 144,000 Red Cedar; 118, 000 Arizona Cypres:;: and 54,500 Yellow Poplar. pines, Longleaf, Slash, Loblolly and Shortleaf, sell for $2.50 a thousand. Black Locust is priced at $2 a thousand, and Arizona Cypress, YellowPoplar and Red Cedar will be avail abe at $6 a thousand. Jarres H. Hill, Assistant Director of the Comnission in Charge All rrices are F.O.B. nursery, with an additional charge of 25 of Management and Nurseries, per thousand for delivery to the reported that orders for seed- county seat where orders are to lings are coming in rapidly. picked up. ''Orders for seedlings will be taken until October 1. Should Payment of seedlings may ace anpany orders and ' 'must be made by the supply be less than the demand check or money orders,'' Hill on that date, orders received said. No cash will be accepted. before October 1 will be reduced For information on the quantity pr