Georgia forestry, Vol. 6, no. 6 (June 1953)

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JUNE
1953

GEORGIA FORESTRY

Editorial

Spring Winds Present Danger

(From the Cobb County Times)

The pungent odor of burning grass, rubbish and brus h drifts through nearly every corrrnuni ty in Cobb County during the spring months. Many of these fires get beyond c ontrol, endanger lives and property.
Burning over grass and brush areas and trash which has been stacking up in the attic and piled up during winter may be a beneficial spring clean-up of your property, but all citizens should kno.v how to do the job properly and safely before starting .
The following pointers will help you to remain on friendly terms with your neighbors and may save you money in the long run.
Collect the proper tools for effective grass fire control. These include a heavy shovel, wet brooms, and a portable pump tank extinguisher if possible.
Lay out lengths of garden hose equipped with a nozzle and connected to a good water supply if

the area to be burned is near buildings . Barrels or tanks of water should be handy if running water
is not avaiJ abl e .
Be sure that sufficient help is
standing by to lend assistance if needed . Stay in attendance until fire is extinguished . Never allow children near the burning area.
Always choose a day when there is no breeze, but be prepared for one to spring up any time.
Keep in mind that wind and weather conditions, as well as con ditions of grass or brush makes this type of burning tricky and unpredictable. The job should be tackled seriously and with full observance of all safety rules.
H there is any doubt as to burn-
ing the trash and grass persons should contact the local fire departrrent or the CobbCounty Ranger. They are always more than glad to assist and cooperate in controlled burnings.

This Is Season
For Fire Caution
And Cooperation
(Fran The Carroll County Georgian )
Carelessness causes most fires. Nearly every person or concern that experiences a fire can trace it to some carelessness. Someone allowed trash to accumulate in an unsafe location, someone overfired a stove or furnace to drive away the chill hurriedly,someone knew the stove - pipe had a leakbut they hadn't got around to fixing it, someone knew the electric wiring was over loaded and exposed and someone knew their neighbors woods would be endangered but they went ahead and burned off their o.vn timberland without taking precautions, or being courteous enough to sound a warning. Were it not for people being careless, lazy and indifferent the fire insurance rates would not be so high and the nation would be better off each year by millions of dollars lost to fire.

Vol. 6

GEORGIA FORESTRY
June, 1953 Published Monthly
by the GEORGIA FORESTRY COMM ISSION,
State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia Guyton DeL oach, Di1-ecto1

No. 6

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.

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EDITOR _ ---- ..... ------------------------------------- ..... ___ Richard E. Davis

ASSOCIATE EDITOR....... -----------------.------------------------ Patricia McKemie

DISTRICT OFFICES, GEORGIA FORESTHY COMMISSION:

DISTRICT !- Route 2, Statesboro

DISTRICT VI-P. 0. Box 505, Milledgeville

DISTRICT II-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, Gainesville

DISTRICT V-P. 0. Box 328, McRae

DISTRICT X-P. 0. Box 302, Washington

Named Keep Green Grand ChlllJI)ions in Georgia's second annual contest was Schley County. In the main cover photo Roney Jurdon, Schley Keep Green Chairman, accepts the $1, 000 first prize from A. E. Patterson. Looking on are, at left,
T. o. Gresham, center, B.C. Pel-
ham, and, at far right, Laurence Tondee, Schley Forest Ranger.
Presentations were made at the recent annual meeting of the Georgia Forestry Association.
Ben Hill County, runner-up in the competition was represented by Keep Green Councilman W. R. Snowden and J. C. Bowen, Forest Ranger. Accepting the third prize for Greene County was H. E. ~ore, Fbrest Ranger, shown being congratulated by Carl Floyd, one of the contest judges. Red Ramsey, prominent Toccoa Keep Green Committeeman accepted the fourth prize for Stephens County.

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Schley Named Keep Green Winner

Highlighting Tri -Group Meetings

Georgia's 1953 Keep Green champion is Schley County, with other front-running prizewinners being Ben Hill, Greene and Stephens counties. For the top spot in the second annual Keep Georgia Forests Green Contest, the Schley Keep
Green Council was awarded the grand prize of $1,000. The Ben Hill Council received $500, the Greene County Council$300 and the Stephens County group $200.
Naming of the winners and formal presentation of the awards elimaxed the joint annual meetings of the Georgia Forestry Association, the Georgia Chapter, Society of American Foresters, and the Georgia School of Forestry Alumni Association held May 13 and 14 at the Dempsey Hotel in Macon. More than 250 foresters, industrialists, financiers, landowners, and conservationists were in attendance at the sessions.
Accepting the first place award, a crisp $1,000 bill, on behalf of Schley County, were Roney Jurdon and B. C, Pelham, Keep Green Committee members, and Lawrence Tondee, Schley County Forest Ranger. Ben Hill Forest Ranger J. C. Bowen and Keep Green Committeeman W.R. Snowden represented the secondplace winners. W. R. Johnson, Chairman of the Greene County
ColTITiittee and Herbert E. Moore, County Forest Ranger, accepted the third place award with Red

Ramsey, Stephens County Keep Green leader, and County Ranger Joe Dean, receiving the fourth place prize. A. E. Patterson, University of Georgia School of Forestry made the awards on behalf of the Georgia Forestry Association.
A business session of the Geargia Chapter opened the combined meeting of the three groups on the morning of the 13th. C. Dorsey Dyer, Chapter Chairman, presided
over the session. Evolving from the meeting discussions was the creation of a Georgia Forestry Council, for the ''purpose of giving the various groups and agencies an opportunity to discuss with others programs and practices that the individual groups and organizations will follow, and not as a decisionmaking body.'' Named to the Council were Guyton Deloach, Director, Georgia Forestry Conmiss ion; W.D. Weddell, Dean of the School of Forestry, University of Georgia; C. Dorsey Dyer, Forester, Georgia Agriculture Extension Service; W. R. Hine, U. S. Forest Service; H. J. Malsberger, Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association; J. H. Pond, Southern Pine Association; Jim Spiers, Forester, Central of Georgia Railroad, and T.A.Liefeld,Consultant Forester.
The Alumni \ssociation held its annual meeting on the afternoon of
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19530FFICERS (F THE GEORGIA CHAPTER, SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FORES1ERS-Chairman C. Dorsey Dyer, center, is flanked by Vice Chairman J. C. Turner, Jr., right, and Secretary-Treasurer E. T. Newsom, Jr., left.

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ASSOCIATION GUEST SPEAKER-E. T. Hawes, Vice President, West Lumber Oompany, Atlanta, points rut "Problems of the Small Timberland OwnEr" at the Georgia Forestry Associationannual meeting.

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ALUMNI LEADERS--H. E. Ruark,

right, newly-e~ected President of

the Georgia School of Forestry

Alumni Association is congratu-

lated by John R. Hamilton , out-

going President.

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GEORGIA FORESTRY

Tree Planting In Georgia

Leads Nation

The 1952 report on total acres
planted established another Forestry first for Georgia as the state led the entire nation in total acres planted to trees dur-
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much privately owned land as did 36 other states combined accord-
ing to a report by the U. 's. Forest
Service.

During the period of the sur-

vey, a total of 50,338 acres were

ref ores ted in the state byprivate

landowners, and federal, state

an~ l~cal governments, The large

maJority of all planting in the

state, 49,504 acres, was accom-

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stocking 545 acres and other

public agencies 289 acres.

In total acres reforested since the start of the state's nursery
and reforestation programs, Geor-
gia ranks fifth in the nation
with a tot a 1 of 35 7, 258 acres
planted in trees.

Reforestation efforts in the
South are the most vigorous in
the nation in plantings on private lands, according to the For-
est Service report. The three southern States of Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi planted more than one fourth of all of the private acres in the nation. Planting
figures for Louisiana were 35, 224 privately owned acres, and for Mississippi were 31,205.

The survey emphasized the rise
of planting by private owners on their own lands during recent years, as compared with the de-
cline of planting by governmental
agencies. During the three years,
1950-'52, on a nationwide basis,
79 fercent of the land plante d
was privately owned and 21 pe r-
cent was government owned. In the
three years _pre ceeding War ld War
TT, 1?39-'41, the proportion of
planting was 49 rercent private
and 51 percent government owned
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It takes initiative to make any program success ful. And in Ben Hill County Emory Wilcox, a Negro farmer, demonstrated just what rersonal iniative can do to make a Keep Green Program an active, integral part in the 1i ves of farmers and their families.
After hearing plans of the Ben Hill Keep Green program announced on the radio and in local newspapers, and having been interested in forest protection for many years, Wilcox with his sons, c irculated among their fellow farmers, talking of the need for fire prevention and fcrest protection, and explaining what the families in their community could do to better their farm woods, and help the County's Keep Green program.
With no outside help, Wilcox cr-
ganized a group of 25 friends and
neighb crs in the Dominy Mill community, located nine miles northeast of Fitzgerald. The group formulated practical rules and regulations for any and all burning on farms. The name of
each family was listed with the f cllowing coding beside the name: '' 0' ', ownership by one person; ''F.O.'' Familyownership; ''X''

Cooperation very good; '' E '', Nothing against Him or Herand ''V.L. , '' Regu1ati.ons have 'been broken.
The fall woing is there rort made by Wilcox:
''We the colored Farmers of the Dominy Mill Community have been educated to the fact that forest fires are one of our worst enemies.
"Now we have come together and we work together to prevent forest fires by control burning. We cut
firebreaks and burn in the afternoon when the wind is very calm.
''For the past five years we have had a fine young growth of
yamg trees grcwing on idle and
woodless land. Why? It is because
we can now see that forest fires don't pay off.
''And again we have learned that burning the forests burns up dollars and cents, hundreds of feet of lumber and thousands of barrels of gum.
''We keep a lertby reading newspapers and by radio programs.
''Now in the winter of 1952 we
were issued by the County Agent poster signs. They were tacked up at our churches and on the Highways and in the woods."

OUTSTANDING SCRAPBOOKS ENTERED IN KEEP GEORGIA GREEN CONTEST-Admiring scrapbooks entered in the Keep Georgia Forests Green Contest are Professor L. W. R. Jackson, School of Forestry, University of Georgia, right, and Turner County Forester J. Walter Huntemann, Inlaid cover designs, color photographs, hand painted pages, and many other elaborate and unique ideas were used by Counties to pres~nt reports of progress made in forest protection and fire preventiOn programs during the tontest.

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Formulas For Success

Take one Vigorous Keep Green Council. Add Complete Citizens' Cooperation. Mix well with an Energetic, Imaginative Forest Ranger. Let simmer for one year. And the result is an outstanding and profitable program designed to Keep Schley County Green.
That is the Schley County formula for Greener Forests and Better Liviny;.And the formula paid off in a crisp, new $1,000 bill for the County as first place winner, and an additiona 1$100 for
Forest Ranger L. S. Tondee, chosen
''the most outstanding Forest Ranger,'' in the Georgia Forestry Association's ''Keep Georgia Forests Green'' county contest.
Eight council members of the Schley County Keep Green Committee, which met semi-monthly during the contest, formed groups whicq saturated the county with fire prevention and forest protection projects of varied and unique natures.
One of the most, outstanding features of the Schley program was the organization of volunteer fire units formed in communities over the county. Unofficial fire headquarters were set up in the communitiesand far-

mers pooled equipment for combatting forest fires.
Ranger Tondee smilingly declared that ''only 10 fires occurred in our county during the past year and Schley citizens phoned l 1nit Headquarters to report the fires before the blazes became large enough for our towermen to spot.''
''Volunteer farm equipment was in use suppressing every fire,'' Tondee continued, ''even before the County Forestry Unit's equip-
ment could arrive. We investigated the cause 01 each fire, and follow-ups were made to prevent future occurrence.''
The Scrapbook presented to the Association as a summary of the progress made in Schley County during the contest, outlined numerous projects, including; a sportsman's pledge issued with hunting and fishing licenses; a special Keep Green edition of the Ellaville Sun printed on wrapping paper and distributed throughout the county; an essay contest, one for white and one for col cred schools, offering two $25 defense bonds as prizes; and all forest industries and their personnel in the county were contacted.

KEEP GREEN IDNTEST JUDGES AND PRIZE WINNING SOlLEY REPRESENTATIVES-Left to right, Elmo Hester, Farm Editor, Atlanta Journal; Roney Jurden, Schley Keep Green Council; C. F. Evans, Forester; L. S. Tondee, Schley Forest Ranger; and Carl Floyd, Vice President, Fulton Nationa I Bank.

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FORESTERS ADDRESS GFA MEETING-'11ow To Get The Results Of Research In Practic~ is explained at the Georgia Forestry Association's
annual meeting by John c. Barber,
Research Forester, U. S. Forest Service, above. Albert C. Worrell, AssistantProfessor, University of Georgia School of Forestry, speaks on "Costs of Producing Forestry in the South," below.
Profitable and productive Keep Green formulas were also brewedup by Ben Hill, Greene andStephens counties, the Second, Third and Fourth place contest winners, respectively. The counties profited n ct only from the $500, $300, and $200 prizes awarded by the Association, but through greener, more productive and Letter protected forestlands.
Ben Hill County carried out numerous forestry educational projects, with the county's activities centered around Keep Georgia Green Week. Miss Gum Turpentine reigned over the week's activities which included: Fitzgerald decorated with pine trees, window displays and banners; a Keep Green parade with white and color-
ed bands and 30 commercial and
school floats; an address by Lieutenant Governor Marvin Griffin; a forestr y pr cgram in the green decorated football stadium; a special Keep Green edition of t he FiLZgera ld Herald; sermons by ministers delivered during the
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The Area Three summer rreeting of the Sout hern Pulpw ood Conservation Association
brought toget her more than 125
pulpwood producers and dealers, Association Conservati on Foresters, a 1~ representatives of the Association's rrember mills, for a one day session held June 3 at the General Oglethorpe Hate 1 in Savannah, Georgia.
During the morning session, the Conservation Foresters and Area De legates reviewed the sampling activities of. the Association .
In the afternoon two talks a nd a panel discussion were presided over by AreaChairman S.K. Hudson, Container Corporation of Arrerica. ''Forest Insects, Their Cost and Control'' was the subject of an illustrated slide lecture by Joe Kowal, Bureau of Entomology and Plant
Quarantine, u.s. repartrrentof
Agriculture, and ''The Program of Tree Improverrent and Its Potentialities,'' was outlined by Ken Porreroy, Lake City Research Center, Southeastern Forest Experirrent Station.
The afternoon's pane 1 discussion, ''The Landowner--Are We Reaching Him?'' , was moderated by Jim Fisher, Brunswick Pulp and Paper Company, with panel members Sam Lyles, Jr., Union Bag and Paper Corporation, Joe Hogan, InternationalPaper Company, and Rex Nance , Rayonier, Inc., participating.
In the late afternoon theArea Delegates convened, followed by a social hour and banquet. G. P. LeMoyne, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, served as Ma ster of Ceremonies at the Banquet.
Other Area ~~etings of the Association were held as foklows: Area One, May 6, P laza Hotel, Huntsville, Texas; Area Two, June 9-10, Buena Vista Hotel, BjJoxi, Mississippi; and Area Four, May 20, Carolinian Hotel, Nags Head, NorthCarolina.

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NEW HEADQUARTERS OF atAniAM COUNTY FORESTRY UNIT OFFICIAlLY OPENEDthe Chatham County Forestry Unit officially opened the doors of its new Headquarters building on May 1 and marked the occasion with a dedication ceremony and Barbecue luncheon for the many Chatham countians in attendance. The one story, brick and shingle building is of modernistic design, picturesquely and aptly situated in a level wooded area. In photo above, Chatham Forest Ranger Ernest Edwards, right , and First District Forester Walter N. Stone, Georgia Forestry Commission, "break- in" the pine paneled conference room. The Headquarters building also includes ample office space for the Ranger, Dispatcher and other assistants, shower facilities for fire crews, and storage space. Garage facilities for Unit fire fighting vehicles are located to the rear of the headquarters. In photo below, Ranger Edwards points out a few of the construction features to District Forester Stone.

JUNE, 1953

To re cognize Ge crgia' s first--
and the nation' s second ''Tree Farm Family,'' more than 375 foresters, business leaders and woodland owners gathered May 26 at the Doraville Plant of the West Lumber Company to witness the official presentation of Tree Farm Certificates and Signs to 24 Lando.vners from Fulton, Butts, Cobb, DeKalb, White and Gwinnett Counties.
Governor Talmadge and Guyton DeLoach, Director of the Georgia Forestry Commission, commended the new Tree Farrrers and the West Lumber Company for instituting the ''Tree Farm Family'' program, which brought together the 24 lando.vners through their mutual interest in taking advantage of a plan offered by West to provide small wood lot owners professional supervision and managerrent of non-company owned forestlands without cost or obligation.

' 'Your best inves trrent in Georgia today is putting submarginal lands into pines,'' Governor Talmadge stated as he cited the importance of the state's forests which yearly bring a $600million incorre to the state, and provide employment for 166,000 workers.
Explaining the operation of the ''Tree Farm Familv'' plan Director DeLoach pointed out that although the Georgia Tree Farm System originated in 194P, the idea of a ''Tree Farm Family," composed of i nd i v id ua 11 and o.vne rs in the area served by a fares t industry ''had its Georgia origin with theWest Tree Farm Family which we honor today."
Preceding the Tree Farm presentations by Governor Talmadge and Director DeLoach, E. T. Hawes and L. C. Hart, Jr., West's Industrial Foresters, conducted a forestry demonstration of proper and improper harvesting practices.

FIRST GEORGIA TREE FARM FAMILY--Photo 1, Governor Herman Talmadge , left, ~resents the Tree Farm Certificate awarded West Lumber Company to George C. West, President of the Company. Looking on is Guyton DeLoach, Director, Georgia Forestry Commission. Photo 2, Govern~ Talmadge and West discuss the merits of the Tree Farm Program in Georgia. Photo 3, the 24 new Georgia Tree Farmers officially recognized at the ceremoni es, pose for a family photograph. Photo 4, preceding the Tree Farm ceremonies, E. T. Hawes, Vice President and Forester for the Company, conducts a forestry demonstration stressing pro rer cutting methods.

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When Johnny Mize slammed a homerun to win the 1952 World Series for the New York Yankees, the bat he used to atply the coupe de Grace' was a product of a Georgia forest industry the Hanna Manufacturing Company of Athens .
Producing more than a million bats a year for use t hr oughout the world, the Hanna Company plant has been located in Athens for the las t twenty eight years.

These pioneers of the bat industry moved into Georgia as early as 1917. Here they began buying and cutting high-quality eveng r<Wn ash and hickory timber which was first converted into tool handles and later into softball and baseball bats. This operation continued to thrive in Geargia unti 1 the commercial supply of high- grade ash and hickory was depleted in 1942. At this crucial

MASS PRODUCTION OF HIGH QUALITY BATS BY "BATTERY" OF MACHINE LATIIES Some lathes have as many as 50 different blades cutting simultaneously

BILLETS ARRIVE AT HANNA PLANT-Timber Department Foreman Moody inspects racked-up billets. Billets arrive at the plant in this form and are (Rrtially seasoned
prior to turning on the lathes.

BATS COMING OFF SANDING MACHINE ARE INSPECTED BY Mel Bond, foreground, Hanna Plant Superintendent, in photo at left below. This sander is a unique

period the Hanna Manufacturing Company was forced to look to other states fIT bat timber. Hick;ory and Ash for softball and baseball bats is obtained from Alabama and Tennessee, and wood for high quality baseball bats is imported from the Catskill Mountains in New York where even-grown Ash and Hickory produces a fine-grained texture which is desirable in manufacturing baseball bats.
Officiars of the Hanna Company look forward to the day when a supply of Georgia timber will again be available in sufficient quantities to again make cutting
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operation. In right photo, IIanna Company's "Batri te" trademark is pressed into bats by heated stalf1)er.

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Foresters And Rangers In The News

Williard Smith and Parbara ~1c Intyre have been declared winners of a ''scavanger hunt'' to find the biggest pine and hardwood trees within the boundaires of Fen Hill County. The Rotary Club in cooreration with the ''F.eep Green'' council conducted the contest, offering a prize of $]0 for the biggest pine and ~5 for the biggest hardwood tree, excluding cypress and tupelo gum.
Size of trees were determined by circumference of the trunk 4~~ feet above the ground. The Een Hi 11 County Fares try Unit measured numerous trees believed to qualify as the county's largest.

displacing students from the school grounds.
The planting, whi ch was completed in mid-January, wa s under

the supervision of Robert 0.
Clyatt, Thomas County Forest Ranger; H. H. Barrett of the
school faculty; and W. L. Whittle,
County Agent.

WAYNE SENTINEL ONE OF TALLEST IN STATE--This 120 foot Derrick type Forest Fire Lookout Tower which stands guard over Wayne County Forests is one of the two tallest of its kind in the state. The Georgia Forestry Commission, with assistance from the Wayne County Forestry Unit, erected the towering forest protector at no cost to the county. The Commission has placed in operation 38 Derrick type Towers over the state, including the two 120 foot sentinels and 36 towers which reach 96 feet in height.

Smith found the largest Pine on the Marion Dickson farm. The tree measured eight feet, two and a half inches.
The hardwood discovered by Miss Mcintyre was an old oak growing on the farm of her father, S. G. Mcintyre. The tree measured seventeen feet, two inches and had a limb spread of 114 feet.

Firs~ hand teaching of forestry will be possible at BostonSchool, Thomas County, as the result of a school-wide tree planting project.
Three acres of the school grounds which had been laying idle for several years have been put to practical use in the form of a demon stration forest in which the entire student body has a definite interest. According to their ability, each grade from first through high school took part in the work.
The planting was undertaken for the purpose of supplying students with an easily accessible forest, thus eliminating the necessity of

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More than 125 foresters, timber operators, timberland owners, and industrialists gathered in Trenton, Georgia on May 20 at the A. L. Dyer Lumber Company to attend the Dade County sawmill and logging conference.
The morning activities were opened by a panel of speakers representing 1VA, Georgia Forestry Commission, Georgia Extension Service and sawmill and logging
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"S'rnPS TOWARDS GOOD MANAGEMENT"-Present and potential forest production is pointed out by W. N. Darwin, TVA Forester, during a discussion of "Logging Facts."

equipment operators. This conference gave primary consideration to the logging phase of the timber operation. Data carefully selected from 25 logging operations on every phase of logging-felling, bucking, skidding, loading, and hauling- -were used to show the operation cost of each phase, how logging costs vary by logging methods and size of timber i and what should be done to reduce cost of a timber operation.
The responsibility of timber operators in woodland management was given a thorough treatment by C. Dorsey Dyer, Forester, Georgia Extension Service, Athens, Geor-
gia. A review of 1 ~ging facts, based
on information gathered from TVA Projects, . was presented by W.N. Darwin, 1VA Forester, Morris, Tennessee.
The value of selective cutting was presen ted to the group by W. H. McComb, Assistant Director, Georgia Forestry Corrnnission. ''The History of Forestry in Georgia,'' stated McComb, ''is no different world over. First we star ted with virgin forest, clearcut and depleted the land, build back and eventually get around to applying better forest policy. You would not hesitate to call a doctor if you were ill," exclaimed McCnmb, to the timber operators, ''so why hesitate to consult a forester

HALL COUNTY LANDMARK BURNS-Charred timbers and gaunt pillars are all that remain of the historical Keith Bridge on the CummingsGainesville Highway, which joins Hall and Forsyth counties. Already on the scene combatting a
when you need advice with your timber problems. Take advantage of the free service offered by the _Forestry Commission.''
A discussion of log grades, production rates, and air seasoning was covered by B.C. Cobb, TVA Forester. "Emphasis," said Cobb, ''should be placed on tree grade in tne woods as well as log grade. Close grade supervision will assist the timber operators in de terming timber value.''
Charles R. Page, Jr. Consultant Forester, of Chattanooga, discussed the ways a Consultant Forester can assist the timber operators.
Representatives of equipment firms discussed logging equipment and sawmi 11 rna intenace.

LOG GRADING DEMONSTRATION IS roNDUCTED BY H. A. JOHNSON, TVA FORESTER, LEFT, BELOW Below, right, equi pnent coiJ1)any representatives show versatility of power chain saws.

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' long-used crossing. As the woods fire swept closer, the dry-old wood rapidly

caught fire and the bridge was completely destroyed. After collapsing into the water, right photo, the burned timbers floated away downstream.

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the 13th. Presiding was John R. Hamilton, president. Highlighting this session was the announcement of thenewly-electedofficers, including H. E. Ruark, Assistant Director, Georgia Fares try Com- mission, President; Charlie Cannon, Union Bag and Paper Corporation, Vice President; and Bruce McGregor, Southern Pine Association, Secretary.
A joint session of the Association, S.A.F. and Alumni Association opened the final day of the
Forestry Association's meeting.
E. T. Hawes, Vice President of West Lumber Company, Atlanta, stated that ' 'the problems of the small timber land owners are crea ted by a lack of faith in industry. Confidence can be restored through an educational program and better informed timberland owners. The change will come only when the shame connected with poor cutting will demand thrifty management and new forest practices.''

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week on forestry and fire pr~ vention; and use of green ink and typewriter ribbons by businessmen to emphasize the ''green'' theme.
A Ben Hill essay contest held in the county's schools was sponsored by the Keep Green Council, and two Arbor Day programs were conducted by the Future Farmers of America. Two junior forest rangers clubs were organized by County Ranger J. C. Bowen.
A summary of activities which won third place for Greene County include a spec ia 1 Keep Green newspaper edition; mailing of ten thousand bank fillers with forestry themes in statements each month for five months; school students awarded 230 Junior Forest Wardens' badges, and school plays and stunts held at each school.
By proclamation, Stephens, which won fourth place, was named the "Green Gold County," and highway

operations commercially feasible, and they believe that the state's program of fire protecttion, management and reforestais hastening this day.
Wood billets come into the finishing plant in Athens 38 to 40 inches in length. The wood is partially seasoned upon arrival and the ends are waxed to prevent checking. The billetsare further seasoned to less than 14 percent moisture content and then passed
to the production line where the round timbers are turned in the lathes carefully graded, sanded, and finally impregnated with a stain and glue binder which improves the tensil strength of the batting surface.
More than nine hundred models, lengths and weights are manu factured at the Athens plant. Bats are shipped to every state in the nation, Porto Rico, Cuba, Mexico, Hawaii, and many other foreign countries.

Albert C. Worrell, Assistant signs notified motorists to pre-

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Professor, School of Fares try, University of Georgia, discussed

vent forest fires in the "Green of the outstanding ball clubs have Gold" county. During Keep Green for many years had their personal

the ''Cost of Produc ing Forestry Week, aStephesn Green Gold Queen bats custom made at the Hanna

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''Ha.v to Get the Results of Research in Practice'' was the topic

orated with pines and every s chool child in the county planted trees.

Athens. All major league baseball bats are custom made and

of John C. Barber, Research Fores- A Christmas parade featured for- hand turned from the best quality

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of ash timber.



Georgia Forestry
June 1953

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He grows and harvests trees as a crop. Tree farmin g is like any other
kind of farming, except the crop cycle is a little longer. Nature does most of the work. The tree farmer pro-
tects his woodland from fire and harvests trees when th ey're ripe and
the price is right.

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PUL,WOOD. In mnt reu Tru Fum thonnn~ll f.nd "' rudy mr~t .u pu lpwood. You un me ~ qood wqu hrudinq nd h,,,d,nq it yours If

LUM8 R . Treel hu~elttd on the

woodlot un provod e lumber for

new bunt, 1hed1 or vn , , ,.

s... hou~t

loqt re Tuoe Frm

POSTS. C oth go dowl'l nd fnce1 qo up with posts hu..-e1ltd on the lrm woodlot. Po1h 11nd polu l1o tlln be cuh crop

Entered as second clu11 matter at the Post Office, Atlanta, Georgia.
J..~ibr U.',/
.Scl n o , l J , Uzn 'ler Sl ty ur GL..O:C gia
Athens, Georgia