Georgia forestry, Vol. 6, no. 8 (Aug. 1953)

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Georgia Leads East Georgia's Pulpwood Leadership Is AChallenge

In Timber Products
(From the Atlanta Constitution)
Georgia still holds its lead as the leading producer of lumber in the eastern half of the United States. In the sale of all forest products it is among the top three in the nation.
In 1951 a total of 2,177, 193,000 board feet of lumber was produced in the state, with the nearest rival, North Carolina, producing only 2,022,050,000.
Approximately "two-thirds of the total area of Georgia is in woodlands. They are potentially our greatest resource and our most promising source of revenue. We have come a long way in our attitude toward our woodlands. Formerly we considered them "woods to burn" but in the last quarter century we have come to realize that they are too valuable to be squandered. We are now cultivating woodlands on a crop basis.
There is no reason to suppose that we will not continue to deve lop our forest resources, with a program of conservation and replanting to keep an undiminished

(From the Macon Telegraph)

Georgia's position as the lead- was the South's leading producer

ing Southern producer of the na- with 2,500,000 cords.

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tion' s pulpwood supply presents an

. In 1951, and later corrp~ratlVe

important challenge to the land- f1gures when they are ava1lable,

owners of this state- -a challenge will not have changed too much for

that must be met without falter illustration, forest products

or failure.

brought more cash to Georgia farm-

The reforestation and growth of ers than did cattle and calves,

new pine must keep pace with or ex- eggs, corn and all truck crops

cell the arrount of pine timber cut combined. Forest products, of

annually.

co';lrse, were outranked by cotton,

Forest products, a $600 million ch1cke':ls, tobacco, _hogs, peanuts,

business for Georgians in 1951, ran an estimated couple of hundred

and sl1ghtly by da1ry prod';lcts. . But the day 1S not too d~stant

milli m above that last year, al- 1f the challenge befor.eus 1s met

though the exact figures are not when forest products wd l outrank

yet available.

still others of these various

Ou t o f t he na t1 on ' s 25 , 000 , 000 sources of farm income. The re-

cords of pulpwood produced last ceipts fromGeorgia forests amoun-

year, the South supplied more than ted to $300 million in 1948, will

half- -14, 600,000 cords. Georgia have about tripled that for 1953

supply of raw rna terials for lumber, pulp, and to furnish the rapidly growing synthetic industry with its needs.
Yes, there is gold in Georgia's forests. They must be protected and cultivated as any other resource if they are to continue to yield thewealth inherent in them.

five years later.
How can Georgia meet the chal-
lenge to maintain this record and insure that this source of revenue will not diminish?
1. The pine seedling program
must continue at an unexcelled
pace. So far reforestation work has been good. The 1arges t crop of
seedlings ever grown in Georgia

Forestry Corrmission nurseries was

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delivered to landowners this year at the rate of approximate} y three

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million young trees per week. The

Published Monthly

total: AI most 55 mi Ilion.

by the

2. Fares t fire protection must

GEORGL\ FOI{ESTRY COMl\IISSIO~. State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia
G11yton DeLoach, Director

be extended and improved. OnJuly 1 more counties were added to those which have an organized plan for

Members, Board of Commissioners:

G. Philip Morgan, Chairman .

.J ohn l\1. McElrath

Macon

C. I\1. Jordan, Jr.

Alamo

K. S. Varn H. 0. Cummings .

Savannah Waycross Donalsonville

Georgia Forestry is entered as second class matter at the Po~t

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

Press Association.

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Richard E. Davis Patricia McKemie

forest protection, leaving only 29 counties unprotected.
3. Fares t management should be improved as rapidly as possible. Timber owners must be better informed ofhow to thin their trees, how and when to harvest them and how their land can be best utilized for forest purposes. Two out of every three Georgia acres are in

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DISTRICT 1-Route 2, Statesboro

DISTRICT VI- P. 0. Box 505, Milledgevi lie

DISTRICT II- P. 0. Box 26, Camilla

DISTHICT VII- Route 1, Rome

DISTRICT III- P. 0. Box 169, Americus

DISTRICT VIII-P. 0. Box 811, \V aycross

DISTRICT IV- P. 0. Box 333, r-.;ewnan

DISTRICT IX- P. 0. Box 416, Gainesville

DISTRICT V- P. 0. Box 328, :r\lcRae

DISTRICT X- P. 0. Box 302, Washington

trees, but we are utilizing those trees at about one-third capacity.
4. More waste acreage should be planted in trees. Since the state nursery program began about 340, 000 such useless acres have been planted and thus will become productive in the near future.
This is the kind of program Georgia must maintain consistent! y if qur place of leadership is held.

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Georgia Maintains Lead

In Pulpwood Production

For the fifth consecutive year, c~orgia in 1052, l ed t he entire South in the production of Pulpwood, accounte d for 10 percent of the Nati on' s c u t and 17 percent of the South's output, and recorded a new all-time h igh production for the state of 2,
S13, 'l7 9 standard c ords.
The state's 1952 production figure represen ted a six percent increase over 1951 production, and a one percent increase in the portion of the Nation' s cut. The percen-
tage of the total cut in the South r emained the same as in 1951. During 1951, Georgia produced 2, 370, 143 cords for a 6. 7 percent increase over 1950; and in 1950, a 24.1 percent increase was noted over 1949 production. Production in 1950 amount ed to 2,221,279 standard cords, and in 1949 was only 1,790,500 cords.
During 1052, the state's pines provided 2,400 ,497 standard cords, of t he total cut with hardwoods and chestnut accounting for 1OS, 841 and 6, 0 34 cords re spectively.
Georgia now has seven pulpmills in operation producing more than 3, 600 tons of pulp per day. The seven operating mills, their loca tion and pulp capacity per 24 hour s are as follows; Armstrong Cork Company, Macon, 200 tons; Ma con Kraft Company, Macon, Kraft Company, Macon, 600 tons; Brunswic k Pulp and Paper Company, Brunswi c k, 400 tons; Certain - teed Products Corporation, Savannah, II 40 ton s ; Southern Paperboard
! Corporat ion, Savannah, 500 tons; l Union Pag and Paper Corpora tion,
Savannah, 1,400 tons; and St. Marys Kraft Corporation, St. Marys, S00 tons.
In addition to the seven operating mills, Georgia has three additional mill s underconstruct ion, which have an estinated productivity of more than

1,~00 tons daily. With the completion of the new mills, Geor gia mills will have a daily cap acity of approximately 5,000 tons of pulp and this quantity wi 11 probably place Georgi a in the l ead among Southern states in this respect. New mills are the Rome Kraft Company, Rome, 615 tons; National Container Corporation, Valdosta, 450 tons; and Rayonier, Inc. Je s up, 250 tons.
Fifteen of the state's 159 counties accounted for mor e than one third of Georgia's total production. Camden County in Southeast Georgia again led the state with a production of P7, 4PO cords, and Clin ch County was second with P3,207 standard cords.
Other top counties with productions of more than 40,000 cords were Charlton, 7P,R42; Brantley, 73, 1P3; Pryan, fi5 , 257; Effingham, 50,634; Wayne, 56,
131; Troup, 55,150 Ware, 4P, 031; Coffee, 47,613; Mcintosh, 411, 206; Appling, 46,090; Lowndes, Lt5,3P7; Decatur 44,316; and Monroe, 42,Pfi7.
Total of 1952 receipts of domestic pulpwood at all mills in the l lni ted States showed a production of 25,045,000 cords, wi th the south furnishing 58 percent of the pulpwood cut in the Nation.
The production of the 12 southern states during 1052, for the third consecutive year reached still another new high with a
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IMNY WORKERS IIEIP GEORGIA LEAD TO make Georgia a leading pulpwood ITOducer, hundreds of workers combine their efforts, as shown in photographs at right, in cutting and stacking logs in the forest, loading wood for truck shipments and distributing carloads of pulpwood throughout the nation.

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For the second year the Georgia Forestry Commission is undertaking a cone collection drive for the purpose of building up a stockpile of good, healthy seed for future years when the supply of seed from commercial sources may become insufficient to meet planting demands. The ultimate aim is to collect and purchase enough seed to build up a supply sufficient to grow enough seedlings to meet any demand for forest tree seedlings in any two-year period.
''Last year the program to collect cones for the four state nurseries was very successful," declared Guyton I:kLoach, Director of the Commission. "We hope to be even more successful this year because we now have many Georgians who are 'experienced' cone gatherers, and because those who gathered cones last year found that the activity was highly profitable. In fact, many farmers made more than enough profit on collecting cones to pay for pine seedlings for planting on idle acres."
"Now is the time to check to determine if sufficient cones are avail able in your area to make cone collection profitable," he said.
"But before you start to gather,

please contact your County Forest Ranger or the nearest office of the Commission for information on the species needed this year, prices being paid, anda few pointers on the best collection methods."
The ripening period for the species needed this year, although varying somewhat indifferent sections of the state, was outlined by the Commission as follows: Slash, September to November; Short leaf, October and November; Eastern White Pine, August and September; and Yellow Poplar, October and
November. "One species that we are anxious
to obtain is White Pine," I:kLoach said. "White Fine cones started ripening the last of July and the first of August,but to date we have located only a few bushels. If you find even one or two bushels, we would like to purchase them. No Longleaf Pine cones will be purchased. Shortleaf cones are also in demand, and we appeal to North Georgians to concentrate on collecting Shortleaf and White Pine cones to help build up a sufficient quantity to fill our nursery needs:'
LeLoach emphasized the importance of collecting only ripe cones and of keeping eachspeciessepara te

GEORGIA NURSERYMEN ANTICIPATE RECORO BREAKING SEEDLING CHOP--Production of forest tree seedlings from state nurseries of the Geo-rgia Forestry Commission will reach a peak during the 1953-54 season, as nurserymen anticipate the greatest crop ever produced in state nurseries- -90,000, 000 young trees. Buster Harris, Nursery Su(X'rintendent, above, examines beds ot young Loblolly Pine seedlings growing in the Hightower River Nursery, in Dawson County.

More Forest Industries
For Georgia
New Fore st products industries,
large and small, continue to move into Georgia at a steady pace as the vast woodland resources of the state become better protected from the ravaged of forest fires, and reforestation programs assure a continuous supply of raw materials for use by industry.
The new plant additions will employ hundreds of c~orgians, and will indirectly provide jobs for many other workers.
National Container Corporation's new SOO-ton per day capacity pulp paperboard and papermill is under construction near Valdosta. The erection of steel has started for the $2S million mill, which, when in operation, will increase National Container's pulp, paperboard and papermaking capacity by SO%, providing this additional supply for National's fourteen box making shops. The company now operates five other mills. In making the announcement, W. T. Webster, Vice President in charge of the project, said that practically all foundations for buildings and equipment are completed or are in process of being formed and poured. ''Several mill ion dollars have been spent thus far,'' Webster continued, "in clearing and preparing the primary ponding area, drilling of water wells, building roads and railroad extensions to the property, and other essential operations preliminary to the actual start of construction of the mill proper.''
The In land ContainerCorporat ion, part owner of the Rome Kraft Company which is expected to begin production next year, has purchased a tract of land in Floyd County. Inland, with Mead Corporation, Dayton, 0hio, owns the Rome Kraft Company, paperboard manufactures, whose multimillion dollar plant is now under construe t ion on the Coos a River west of Rome.
In Statesboro, a new business is beginning operation under the nane of Forest Art Products, Inc.
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Chattahoochee has be come the 130th county in the state to organize a County Forestry l 1nit, and the addition of Chattahoochee's 137, 47() acres of forestland has brought the protected forestlands in the state to a total of 21, 77R, 192 acres.
Comprising 8~ percent of the entire area of the county, the woodlands in Chattahoochee have afforded employment opportunities to hundreds of citizens both in the wood s and in industries dependent upon wood raw materials. 1ne county's timberlands have produced 20, 8SS cords of pulpwood in the past three years, and citizens planted more 23,000 pine seed lings in one year. The county has an estimated volume of 30S, 118,000 board feet of sawtimber, and a 737,700 cordwood volume.
The forested area includes 47, fi32 acres of state and privately owned land, and P.9,P.38 acres of federal owned timberlands. According to latest survey figures more than 00,731 of the county's forest acres are well stocked; there are 2, 7 49 medium stocked acres, and 43, ago acres are poorly stocked.
The County Forestry Unit will be headed by a trained, experienced County Fares t Ranger.

Georgia led all states in the eastern half of the nation in lumber production in 1051, according to final figures just issued by the Pureau of Census. Figures for 1951, the latest year for which information is available, credit Georgia with a production of all types of soft and hard woods at 2, 177, 1Q3, 0('() board feet. North Carolina, with2,022,0SO,OOO board feet was second.
Lumber production In the LTnited States during 10S1 is estimated at 37.2 billion board feet, lumber tally, according to data summarized from the quarter1y sawmill surveys conducted by the Pureau of of Census, Department of Commerce in cooperation with the National Production Authority. Es timated production in billions of board feet for previous years are 3P.O in 1050; 32.2 in 1Q49; and 3S. 4 in 1047.
Eastern production in 1051 is

estimated at 1R. 3 billion board feet while western production i s estimated at 18. q billion board feet. The lQSO e s timat ed produc tion in these regions in billions of board feetwa s 10.4and lR.firespectively.
The 1QS1 production of softwood lumber was 20. 5 billion board feet while hardwood production was 7. 7 billion board feet. The 1O!)() es timates were 30.6 and 7. 4 billion board feet respectively.
The estimated stocks of lumber on hand at sawmills was .S. 3billion board feet on December 31, 1051. This represents a signific ant inincrease over the 4. 7 billion board feet of sawmill stocks estimated for r:ecember 31, 1OSO. The major increase in stocks were reported by sawmill s located in the western States which s howed an increa s e from 2. 3 to 2. 7 bi 11 ion board feet.

LIVING DEMONSTRATION OF THE VALUE OF FOREST FIRE PROTECTION-The young trees here are just as old as forest fire protection in Chatham County. Natural reproducti m from the tall seed trees in the background and fire protection have resulted in this stand of four and five year old Slash Pines growing along U. S. Highway 80 just outside of Savannah. First District Forester Walter Stone, right, points out to Jack Fortin the advantages of integrating fire protection with wise forest management practices.

From the templed hills of the
No rth to the endless plains and
marshes of the South, millions of Georgians and visitors from throughout the Nation each year enjoy various summer sports such as fishing, swimming and picknicking, in Georgia's 25-mi 1l ion-acre forest playground.

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Sees Forestry

A ~it c h e ll County octogenarian has prove d a gain that faith ca n move mountain s and ha s s hown th a t profitable tree farming i s not only for t he young in ye ars .
Nine teen years ago, at the gay young age of fl7, C. F. Ri cha rd s of Hopeful planted four acres o f Loblolly Pine . Today, at a live ly P6, Richards proudly s how s off his excellent stand of tall, fa s tgrowing thinne d pines a s he r e lates the profits he ha s already realized from his ''venture in the afternoon of life' ' and his anticipated revenues in the future.
Richards, long a proponent of good fores try and progressive agric ulture , i s one of Georgia' s pioneer te ac he r s of Vocational

FOREST PLANNED 19 YEARS AGO-This stand of tall, fast-growing, thinned pines was planted in 1934 in Mitchell County by C. F. Richards who had "a definite forest management plan in mind" for the four acres of Loblolly Pineon his Hopeful , Georgia, fann. Richards, now 86 years old, points rut to Hugh P. Allen, Second District Forester, Georgia Fo restry Commission, right, ab<JJe, the value of cutting low stumps to utilize as much of a tree as possible. "This treewi ll make a fine pole," Richards tells Allen, left photo, and explains his practice of harvesting each tree for the best market.
Agri c ulture , a nd i n po int of years of serv i ce sta nd s as o ne o f t he deans of public school education in t he state. His teaching ca r ee r co ve red a span of 49 yea rs , with t he last 27 yea r s bei ng devoted t o Vocat i on a l Ag ri c ul t ur e. As one of the " so l id cit i zens "and

, lWTII RATE OF HEALTHY PINES INCREASED BY ELIMINATING DISEASED, DEFORMED T~ES ~. Richards, Right, Describes His Thinning And Utilization Plan 1b II. P. Allen

leaders in his home community, Pop Richards, as he is familiarly known, looks back upon more than 30 years of service to the youth of southeastern Mitchell County. Sixth years ago he dedicated his life to the rural school children of Georgi a in answer "to a definite call to my life's work just as a preacher is called to the pastorate. One day," relates Richards, '~he rea c hing arms beckoned and I followed."
When he originally planted the area in Mar c h, 1934, with a spacing of 6x7 and approxima t ely 1, 000 trees to the acre, Richards' plans called for the first thinning after 12 years with the removal of half of the trees, and a second th i nning seven years later when the stand had 20 years of growth. The second thinning was to leave 225 trees per ac r e .
These plans were di s rup ted, howe ver, by an e x te nd ed i l l ness coupled with the s hortage of labor occ asioned by War ld War II a nd t he s t a nd was fi r st t hinn ed in Jan urary of t hi s ye ar .
Taking on ly t he di seased a nd in ferior t r ees , Richards s ol d the pu l pwood fo r $ S per co r d, stumpage , and r eceived a tot a 1 of al most ilr40() fro m the four acres , in add ito harvesting 250 fe nceposts which he utili zed on his l) O-acre far m. Desoite t h is s ubs t a n tia l return

from this combination irrprovement and commercial thinning , Richards is convinced his first plans for s e veral thinnings would have proved even more profitable .
Prior to cut t ing, the s tand was carefully marked for selec tive harvesting by Leonard Eubanks , International Paper Company dealer. The stumps were cut low to insure maximum yield and the
wood wa s s h i p p e d to In t e rna tional' s Panama City mi ll .
Standing today as a 1 i v ing monumen t to one man 's fa i th and fores i ght, and as a continu ous demonstra ti on o f t he substantial payo ff f rom good fares try, Richard' s pi nes are arrayed in clean lines of tall, clear-baled, fast g row i ng trees behind t he ''Harvested Wisely ' ' sign of the Sou t hern Pu lpwood Conservation Ass ociat ion . Sh owi~g visitors th r oug h the tract, Richards str effieS time and again his belief in t he forestry practices of fire protection, planting, periodical thinnings, marking before cutting, requiring lcm stumps, and complete utilization. And just whe n the visitor begins to wonder when his guide really plans to sl ow down in life, energetic Mr. Richards fair 1y leaps over a barbed wire fence and points out the areas he plans to plant in pines next winter.

Forestry
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County Fores tr y Boards have be en appointed to direct t he ope r at i on of the 12 Coun ty Fo restr y Un its created on July 1 when fares t protection agreements we r e s igne d be tween the Georgia Fore stry Corrrni s s ion and Chattahoochee , Clarke , Clayton, Dooly, Franklin, Gwinnette, Lee, Lincoln, Lumpkin, Marion, Oglethorpe and Putnam counties, according to announcement by Guyton DeLoach, Director of the Commission.
The Fares try Bvard in each county is composed of five prominent local citizens and landowners who are appointed by the Commis s ion Dire c tor. The Board acts in an advisory capaci t y to the County Forestry Unit, and assists the Commi ss ion i n c arrying out the fore stry program in the county.
The newly named board member s , by county and di s tric t, are as follows: DISTRICT III
GiATTAHcxx:HEE CDUNlY: Ed Wohl wender, Columbus ; H. E. McGl aun, Cusseta; R. E. Pa t t e r son, Cusseta ; H. V. Mill e r, Cu sseta; E . G. Will i s , Cusseta.
DOOLY COUNTY: He rbert Saliba , Byromville ; F. L. Lilly, Lilly; ~~ R Ja c ks on, Vie nna; J .K. Peavy, Unadi ll a; R.A. Da vis, Pi nehurst.
LEE COUNTY: J . M. Forrester, Leesbu rg; J . R. Tucker, Smithville;Forrest Crotwell, Leesburg; H. E. Larsen , DeSota; Frank Barber, Leesburg.
MARION COUNTY: Grady Rogers, Buena Vista; Joe S. Burgin, Buena Vista; H. A. Morgan, Juniper~ B. L. McDaniel, Buena Vista; Jack Harvey, Buena Vista. DISTRICT IV
aAYfCN CXlNIY: A.A. Hui e Jr., Jonesboro; J.M. Jones, Ellenwood; H. D. Thames, Forest Park; W. S. Turner, Lovejoy; Grover Northcut, College Park. DISTRICT VI
PU1NAM CDUNTY: T. W. Scott, Eatonton; F. S. Batchelor Jr., Eatonton; Buford Seymour, Eaton-
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lished recently by the American
For est P. nduc ts Industries, Inc.,
and is available free of charge to editors, writers, publishers, educators, artists and others.
''The most effective way to tell a story is with good pictures,'' the brochure points out, and explains that the 86 photos reproduced are typical of the several thousand forestry pictures available from AFPI's pictorial library.
The eight-page booklet lists pictures by geographical region, and covers virtually every phase of fares try and wood p race ss ing. Copies of the publication, pictures listed in the booklet, and forest scenes not listed in the catalog may be ordered from Arrerican Forest Products Industries, Inc., 1816 N Street, N. W., Washington 6, D. C.

The colorful , heavily -wooded rrountains surrounding Camp Wahsega in the Chattahoochee National Forest near Dahlonega, were well popula ted with more than llO 4-H Club boys andgirls, Clubleaders, county farm and home demonstration agents and forestry experts attending the annual 4-H Forestry En campment, July 20- 25.
The boys from North Georgia counties and girls from counties throughout the state were chosen on the basis of past forestry achievements, with their industry rewarded by the trip, expense free other than transportation, to the North Georgia woods.
The campers received advanced instruction in theoretical and practical phases of fares try from an outstanding staff of woodsmen

$1,000 FOREST ESSAY CONTEST WINNERS--Cash awards totali n g $1,000 were recently presented these six June high school graduates for conposing winning essays in Uni m Bag and Paper Corporati m' s $1, 000 contest on the subject "What the Forests Mean to My Community." The contest was conducted in senior classes of all Georgia high schools. The group of winners recently spent a day touring Uni m Rag's Savannah plant, as an extra feature of the contest. Left to right, win-
ners are, Shirley A. Troussell, Reynolds High School, $250; Betty
J. Lancaster, Jordan Vocational High School, Columbus, $150; Jerry McKneely, Griffin lligh School, $100; Geneva Ennis, Brewton High School, $250; Judy Smith, Eastman High School, $150; and Martha F. Faircloth, Rochelle High School, $100.

who taught fi re con trol , thinnin g, tree identification, harvesting, reforestation, measuring, marketi ng, filing of saws, landscaping of farm homes, tree diseases and insect cont r ol.
In addition to the forestry instruction, ample time was set aside for swimming, square dancing, singing and skits, and a visit through the rrountainswas arranged with stops at the fish hat cher y, Lake Winfield Scott and
Vogel State Park. On one evening,
Frank Woods of Southern Pell presented a lecture -demonstration on micro-wave radio relay. The 4-H Club annual rifle shoot for boys a nd girls was also held.
Southern Bell Telephme Company sponsors not only the annual encampment, but also the 4-H Club forestry program in Georgia.
R. V. Richardson and Elizabeth Zellner, Assistant State 4-H leaders, were in charge of the overall direction of the administrative phases of the camp, while Dorsey Dyer, Extension For est-er, conducted the educational program.
The woodsmen who instructLd in the various phases of fares try were T. B. Hankinson, Assistant District Forester, Georgia Forestry Commission, Gainesville; Louis Gaby, Forester, Tennessee Valley Authority, Chattanooga, Tennessee; ~elson Brightwell, Assistant District Forester, Georgia Forestry Commission, Toccoa; Howard Doyle, Area For-. ester, Southern Pulpwood Conser-
vation Association, Macon; J. F.
Spiers, Forester, Central of Georgia Railroad, Statesboro; S. H. Palmer, District Ranger, U. S. Forest Service, Dahlonega; T. G. Williams, Extension Land scape Sepcialist, Athens; C. R. Jordan, Extension Entomologist, Athens; W. E. Roberts, Sandvik Saw and Tool Company, Clarkes ville; and C. W. Robertson, Con servation Forester, International Paper Company, Panama City, Florida.

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Turner County's biggest pine

Shivers estimated the pine to

tree, stand ing long be fore t he

be be tween 150 and 200 y e ar s old,

fir s t s e ttlers moved int o the

and, i f s awmilled, would proba-

area, ha s been officially chri s -

bly make a t l ease 3, 0 00 board

tened with a bottle of turpentine

fe et o f 1umbe r.

by State Senator T. E. Kennedy, Jr., as a climax to a contes t sponsored by the Turner Count y Fores try Unit.

He s aid h e remembe r ed th e pine t r ee s ince hi s chi ldhood, and during the depr ession years he used to hunt squirrel s in the

The tree , a yellow PIne and now wood s s urround ing t h e tr ee .

officially labeled Turner's lar- When a squirre l made i t to the

gest, measures 46 inches near the base and towers RO feet high over surrounding woodlands. It is the only pine in the vicinity.
The tree was submitted in the county-wide crntest by Zeke Shivers, and his son James attended the ceremonies and accepted the $25 defense bond prize awarded by the As hburn Peanut Compa.'1y, with W. E. Leverette making the presentation.

big pine, he comme nte d, i t disappeared high in the t op branches , safe from a rifle s 's aim.
Mone y does gr ow on trees in True tle n County , and t he Fo r estry L'nit ha s proof of t he fact.
Hora ce Morri s , t he Unit' s Pa -

FIRES KILL SMALL TREES, TOU--
The destructi m of young, tender
tree seedlings is one of the greatest unseen damages wrought by forest fires. Habersham County Forest Ranger William A. DeMore emphasizes this fact as he fingers a seedling killed by a recent forest fire in his territory.
every two weeks for six months, using the ac id t r eatme nt.

The tree s tands on property

t rolman, s tar t ed work i ng one 12

The l 1nit re port s i n t he Sope r-

r owned by Holmes Gnday along the

inch pine i n hi s yard i n t he ea rl y

ton New s that '' eve n though l as t

old Rebecca Road.

s ummer of 1952, put t ing one s treak ye ar was cons ide r ed a bad dr y

NEW HEADQUARTERS AND PROUIJ RANGER- -The new headquarters building of

ye ar for Nav a l Stor es , ~~orr is g o t

I the Lmndes County Forestry Unit is the "pride and joy" not only of

f rom thi s tree 32 po unds of gum

Ranger W. W. Wright and his assistants, but of citizens of Lowndes County as well. Located in a shaded, wooded area, the building fur nnishes adequate space for the Ranger's office, quarters for fire crews,

wh ic h he so ld to t he Soper ton Gum Market at 1tS. 70 per hu ndred pound s , nett ing h i m $1. 83 .

ggarage, storageandshower facilities.
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''That was f romj ust one tree,''

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the Uni t emphas i zed. ' 'Suppose Morr is ha d had a comp l ete stand

o f 440 t r ees on an acre at the a-

bov e r ate. Thi s would have brought

hi m $80S. 20 fo r just o ne acre.''

' 'We ll we know that there are

very few c omp l ete stands, so let's

cut t hese figures and just con -

sider a quarterstand oftreesper

acre , ' ' the ar ticle continued. ''Now instead of 'ln. P3 per t r ee,

let's figure iust half- or $.92

per tree--still giving him $101.20

t per acre . Now to get these trees

worked on galves would still give

him $50.60 per acre.

''By keeping fire out of these

trees he can be growing more trees

to replace the old ones. When the

old trees are worked out they can

be sold for pulpwood or sawtimber

at a good price, sayi ng nothing

about the amount of pine cones

he could sell from this acre

each year.''

9

GEORGIA FORESTRY

Schley
Reinvests
Prize Money
Schley County has donated the proceeds of one contest, which greatly benefited the whole county, to another county-wide project in the general public's interest.
Schley received $1,000 for winning first place honors in the annual Keep Georgia Forests Green Count y Contest sponsored by the Georgia Forestry Assoc iation. The forestry prize was donated to the county's Recreat ion Park, a project of the Lions Club which also sponsored the county' s forestry competition , and the park debt was reduced to $2, 200.

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"Nature on Edge" will be the theme of t he fifty - third annual meeting of the Society of American foresters. More than 1,000 members and guests are expected to attend the September 14-17 sessions at Colorado Springs, Colorado
President George L. Drake , of Shelton, Washington, who urges a 11 foresters and friends of fore s try everywhere to attend whether members of the Society or not, will open the general sess ion in.the municipal auditorium.
Eleven t~:~chnical sessions have been scheduled for members with specia li zed interests in forest management, si lvi culture , forest

products, private forestry, forest economics, water shed management, fore st recrea t ion, forest-wildlife management, range management, publi c relations, and forestry eduction.
There will be a half-day general session on the morning of the 15th and five papers of a general, interpretive nature will be presented which deal with t hepeculiarities and problems of the region. ''The theme 'Nature on Edge' epitomizes the dynamic and often VIolent biologic, human and land-use tensions of the Rocky Mountain and Plack Hills region centering in Colorado,'' according to J.V.K. Wagar, chairman of the program c orrrni t tee.

AWAIIDS GIVEN 4-11 CLUBS FOR FIRE PREVENTION \\ORK-The Benedict Schoo l 4-H Club was recently presented a $100 check for winning first place in the Polk County Forest Fire Prevention Contest , cosponsored by the W. D. Trippe Lumber Company and the PeekHightower Lumber Company in coope ration with the Polk County Forestry Unit and the Polk County Extension Service. Here C. W. Peek presents the first place

award to Elsie Carnes, Benedict 4-11 representative. Vicky Denton, foreground, holds the $50 third place prize given Cedarlake School 4-11' ers, as Leonard Queen, second from right, smiles happily over the $75 third prize given his 4-11 Club at Fi te School. Other sponsors, left to right, are J. J. Carter, County Forest Ranger; Johnny Stowe, County Agent; Allen Fulfred, Assistant County Agent; and ~. D. Trippe.

P ulpwood ...

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total harvestof 14,Sfi4,000cords for an increase of 3.6 percent over 1051 production, and 17.1 percent over 19SO. lhe cut of pine pulpwood was 12, 7P 2, 700 cords; a 2. 7 percent increase over 1051. Hardwood was harvested for 1,691,100 cords representing a 16.5 percent increase, and dead chestnut went into 91,100 cords, a 4S.7 percent decrease from 1951 product ion.
The South probably also leads the nation in the manufacturing capacity for turning the raw wood into pulp. At the close of 1952, the South had 63 pulpmills with a total pulping capacity of 26, R65 tons of pulp per day.

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large logs cut from a 175 year old tree bought

from tile ~till Haven Estates, Screven County, by the F. \\. uarby Lum-

ber Company, Statesboro, contained a total volume of 4, 300 board feet

and the logs were valued at more than $500 delivered at the mill.
Ranger J. W. Roberts, Bulloch County F~restry Unit, stands beside

three logs which had diameter measurements inside the bark at the

small end of the logs of 38, 34'1:!, and 31 inches, and measured in

length 25'1:!, 24*, and 22'1:! feet.

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The s mall wood-work ing and ceremic i ndu st r y will i n iaially employ fr om 12 to 15 persons with a subs t antial increase p l anned in the ne ar f u t ure. Officers of t he new c or por ati on are Loy A. Wate r , pre s ide nt ; T. J. Morr is , first vice -president; J ame s E. Hayes, ' exe c utive vi ce-pre s ident and tre as urer , and A. M. Sel i gma n, sec -

Allen and Frank Arnsdorff from W. E. Allmon ofNewington, Georgia. The company formerly operated under the name of the Springfield Lumber and Supply Company. The Allen brothers have been in the sawmill business for s orne eight years near Cl ye, and Arnsdor f f has also been connected with sawmill operations for some 1S years.

1' retary.

Recent announ c emen t s i ndi cate that th e plant of t h e We l born Veneer Company, former l y t he Hill Veneer Company o f Syl vania , will be enlarged, a p an e l plant will be ins t alled, a n d ne w equipment will be adde d. The enlarged operation is expected to employ between 150 and 200 persons. The Hill Company was recently purcha s ed by A. W. Welborn of Waynes boro from John D. Hill.
Plans ar e be ing made to operate a sawmill and planing mill in conne c tion wit h the wholesa l e andre t a il bus ine s s carried on by t he I Springfie ld Lumber Company, re1 cently purc ha sed by Geor ge A.

The reopening of the Standard Processing Company had been announced in Statesboro. The gum plant, which has been in operation for six years, c lased during the winter months for repairs, repl acements and improvements, according to A. G. Fraps, vicepreside nt of the company.
The Savannah Lumber and Supply Company celebrated its ninth ani versary with the opening of a new, modern store at 2P19 Bull Street, in Savannah. Large new lumber sheds and a warehouse are at the rear. The business i s operated by a father and sons team including Harre llC. Murray, Sr. , Harre 11 C. Murray, Jr., and W. Cambridge Murray.

Forestry Boards...
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ton; J.L. Rossee, Eatonton; Bill Resseau, Eatonton.
DISTRICT IX
FRANKLIN OOUNTY: E. P. Jackson, Lavonia; E.W. Walters, Toc-
coa; BoyceDyer, Carnesville; Poy W. Hart, Royston; G. W. Gunnells, Danielsville.
GWINNEIT CUNIY: Powell Smith, Lawrenceville; Henry Aderholt, Stone Mountain; W. Hugh Medlock, Norcross; Benson Jones, Buford; W. C. Britt, Snellville.
WMPKIN CXIJN1Y: M. F. Shelton,
Dahlonega; Fred Palmer, Dahlonega; W. W. Blackburn, Dawsonville; W. W. Grizzle, Dahlonega; Charlie Early, Dahlonega.
DISTRICT X
aARKE COUN1Y: Co i 1e Brown , Athens; Edgar Wood, Athens; W. W. Wier ,Athen s ; Roy Hamil ton, Athens; G. N. Bishop, Athens.
LINCII.N CDJNlY: J. A. Goldman,
Amity; H. A. ~ldman, Lincolnton; Fred Pra ter, Lincolnton; Joe Holloway, Lincolnton ; Joe Strother, Amity.
CCLETIIOFPE CUJNTY: W. T. Cunningham Jr., Lexington; S. E. Hogan, Lexington; R. P. Brightwell, Maxeys; Joe Stevens Jr., Carlton; T.P. Pass, Point Peter.

Georgia Forestry
August 1953
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Marked for Profit
Tree farmers g row and harvest trees according to plan. In most areas trees selected for cutting are marked by trained foresters. The wood-using industries of the United States employ more than 4,500 foresters to manage their own woodlands and to assist neighboring tree farmers. Wise timber management on large, industrial tracts as well as on small farmer-owned woodlands assures America of plenty of timber for today and tomorrow, too.
~~MORE THAN 28 MilLION ACRES OF PRIVATELY OWNED TREE FARM LAND PRODUCE WOOD CROPS FOR MARKET

Entered as second class matter at t he Post Office, Atlanta, Georgia.

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