UN.IVERSif( OF GtORGlA AUG .. ~ .--~ LIBRARIES FORESTRY AUGUST -.. 1953 GEORGIA FORESTRY l?tl; t ,,,.;,,l 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. . 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 GEORGIA FORESTRY delivered to landowners this year at the rate of approximate} y three Yo!. 6 August, 1953 No.8 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. EDITOR ASSOCIATE EDITOR * * * * 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 IHSTIUCT OFFI CES, GEO* I{G* IA* * FOI{ESTRY COl\11\IISSIOI'If: 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. .JInoJ/,e,~t N(W) dlir;lt. AUGUST, 1953 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 (Continued on Page 10) 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. 3 GEORGIA FORESTRY e~.e~t953 eane e~ ~!Uu.e 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. (C on tinu ed on Page 10 ) 4 AUGUST, 1953 130t!tt eo~et~ '51 State Lumber Output ';OU4t~Uf U,Ut Highest East Of Rockies ~ ~, 4 v~. ~~-~t~~.- ~ J 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. 5 I Mitchell Oct 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