GEORGIA FORESTRY 
Editorial 
 
Preserving Our Forest Wealth 
(From the Valdosta Daily Times) 
 
Georgia 1s making gra ti.fying strides in its reforestation pro- 
gram and results being obtained are paying off in a big way. G..tr 
forests make up one of our major 
resrurces, and year after year cash returns from forest prooucts are adding irrmensely to the wealth 
of oor state. 
The 1954-55 proouction goal is 112, 000 , 000 seedlings in the frur 
forest tree seedling nurseries tmder under the managerrent of the <orgia Forestry ~ssion. 
That ~r will be the greatest 
ever produced in a single season in Georgia - or l::Ty state nurseries in 
any Sruthern state. 
Orders for the 1954-55 season 
seedling;; are nov being accepted l::Ty the Crnmission's nursery department. Order blanks are being supplied by crunty rangers, county agents, soil crnservationists and tre Atlanta office of the Forestry Carmission. 
 
Uurlowrers M1o expect to set rut seedlings this season are being urged to place their orders as socn as possible so as to insure getting their needs supplied. 
Not many years ago little attention was paid to reforestation. Sawmill ~ra tors and other users of timber sirrply \\ellt into an acreage and cut it clean, with little or no regard to future grovth. Tooay the picture is changed and selective cutting is the general practice. This change in operation, together with the planting of millions of seedlings each year is rel::ui lding rur forest wealth in a rapid way. 
Landowners are coming to the rea 1i- 
zation that there is a continuing srurce of incane in their forests if they are handled pr~rly. 
Georgia ranks high in its forest resrurces and indications are that approved forestry practices will continue in the future. 
 
Vol. 7 
 
GEORGIA FORESTRY 
July, 1954 
Published Monthly by the 
GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION, State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia Guyton DeLoach, Director 
 
No.7 
 
IIJ.i4e PIJ,eoe~ JludJ, !Jn q~ 
 
(From the Atlanta Journal) 
 
Farmers down in Dougherty 
 
County are putting cigaret light- 
 
ers on their tractors to help 
 
eliminate forest fires caused 
 
by carelessly tossed matches . 
 
Women's clubs up in Stephens 
 
County are encouraging folks to 
 
build compost piles. They aim 
 
to cut down on burning debris - 
 
which frequently gets out of 
 
hand and destroys timber. 
 
These, and many other good 
 
suggestions for preventing woods 
 
fires, were offered Georgians 
 
last week as results were an- 
 
nounced in the Georgia Forestry 
 
Association's fire prevent ion 
 
con test. 
 
Not only Stephens 
 
County - winner in the contest- 
 
but also many other counties 
 
came up with pointers for keep- 
 
ing Georgia green. 
 
Explorer Boy Scouts in Mar ion 
 
County are organized for emer- 
 
gency fire fighting. Barrow 
 
County tractor ownersare pledged 
 
to fight fires with their 
 
machines on a moment's notice. 
 
Bankers of Barrow are trying to 
 
impress upon their customers 
 
the economic importance of trees. 
 
When all Georgians concentrate 
 
on preventing fires, as the peo- 
 
ple of some counties have, everybooy will profit by a 1 1 greener'' 
 
Georgia. 
 
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Members, Board of Commissioners: 
 
K. S. Varn, Chairman__________________________________________________Waycross 
 
Sam H. Morgan____________Savannah 
 
C. M. Jordan, Jr.__________ _Alamo 
 
John M. McElrath.__________Macon 
 
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 EDITORS______________ Robert Rutherford, Catherine Dismuke 
 
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DISTRICT OFFICES, GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION: 
 
DISTRICT 1-Route 2, Statesboro 
 
DISTRICT VI-P. 0. Box 505, Milledgeville 
 
DISTRICT 11-P. 0. Box 26, Camilla 
 
DISTRICT VII-Route 1, Rome 
 
DISTRICT III-P. 0. Box 169, Americus 
 
DISTRICT VIII-P. 0. Box 811, Waycross 
 
DISTRICT IV-P. 0. Box 333, N cwnan 
 
DISTRICT IX-P. 0. Box 416, Gainesville 
 
DISTRICT V-P. 0. Box 328, McRae 
 
DISTRICT X-P. 0. Box 302, Washington 
 
Pictured are three of the principal insect enemies rif the Southern Pines. Just to bolster your ego in case you were right, or to show the distinguishing characteristics in case you were not sure, the correct identifications are, left to right: the PI!\E El\GRAVER BEETLE (IPs Spp. ); The BLACK TURPENTINE BEETLE (Dendroctonus terebrans(Oliv.) ; 
and the SOUTHERN PINE BEETLE (Dendroctonus frontalis Zimm.) 
 
 JULY, 1954 2 
 
Four Counties 
Establish New 
Forestry Units 
Four additional counties started operation of County Forestry Units this month, and another county will join the protected r~mks October 1. 
The four counties whjch established new f orestry units are Miller, Pulaski, Banks and Washington. 
Bleckley County will establish a Unit October 1. 
''These five counties,'' reported Commission Director Guyton DeLoach, "will bring to a total of 20,108,762 acres the total area of Georgia forestland acres under protection of organized units of the Georgia Forestry Commission. This means that 89.4 percent of all Georgia's state and private forestland now is under protection." 
Hugh P. Allen, District Forester, District 2, said equipment for Miller County will include a transport and tractor, equipped with plow. 
Turner Barber, District Forester, District 5, said equipment for Pulaski County will include a two ton truck, a pickup, and a tractor and plow. 
David Groom, District Forester, District 6, said Washington County's equipment will include t wo jeeps equipped with plows, two two-ton trucks, and two tractors equipped with plows. 
0. C. Burtz, District Forester, District 9, stated that the Banks County Unit will be operated under contract to the Hall County Unit. Headquarters will be transferred from Gainesville to Lula. A tractor and plow and a truck will be added to Hall County's current equipment. 
Details of the Bleckley County Forestry Unit formation have not yet been completed. 
Director DeLoach added that the Georgia Forestry Commission will erect forest fire lookout towers in all five counties at no cost to the counties. 
Each unit, he reported, will be equipped with two-way FM radio comm.mica tion. 
 
Charlton And Burke Top 
 
3 Million Planting Mark 
 
Two Georgia counties, Charlton 
 
Individual nursery shipments 
 
and Burke, topped the three mil- accounted for 24,299,750 from 
 
lion mark in reforestation dur- Davisboro nursery; 28,197,075 
 
ing the 1953-54 planting season; from Herty Nursery; 19,059,700 
 
and five counties, Jenkins, Low- from Hightower, and 23,434,950 
 
ndes, Decatur, Dodge, Taylor, from Horseshoe Bend. 
 
and Crawford, passed the two 
 
Slash and Loblolly Pine con- 
 
million mark. 
 
tinued to dominate the field in 
 
Figures taken from the Georgia planting, with 67,241,425 Slash 
 
Forestry Comrrrrssion's recently released planting season repurt 
 
planted and 24,539,000 Loblolly. Georgians planted 922,100 Long- 
 
showed these seven counties led leaf Pine and 80,500 Shortleaf 
 
the list and contributed sub- Pine last season. Other species 
 
stantially towardGeorgia's lead- and the number of them produced 
 
ing all other states in refor- include Black Locust, 19, 100; Red 
 
estation during the past season. Cedar, 202,650; Arizona Cypress, 
 
The past season, with its qis- 259,600; Yellow Poplar, 62,550, 
 
tribution of 94,991,475 seedhngs also marked the greatest number 
of seedlings ever to be produced 
by one state in a single season. 
 
and White Pine, 66,625. The following is a list of the 
total number of seedlings shipped to each county, although not 
 
The 15 leading counties and necessarily the number planted 
 
their total production are as in that county. The listings 
 
follows: Charlton, 3, 132, 000; Burke, 3,128,100; Jenkins, 2, 
 
are made by Forestry Districts. DistJ~.ict 1: Bryan, 438,500; 
 
465,000; Lowndes, 3,328,400; &llloch, 399,500; Burke, 3, 128, 
 
Decatur, 2,315,000; Dodge, 2, 100; Candler, 415,500; Chatham, 
 
279,500; Taylor, 2 ,069,000; Crawford, 2, 015 ,450; Wilcox, 1, 995, 
 
445, 000; Mcintosh, 1, 747,300; Effingham, 384, 000; Emanuel; 
 
500; Jefferson, 1,871,500; Camden, 1,856,000; Telfair; Mcin- 
 
1,684,200; Evans, 188,500; Jenkins, 2,465,000; Liberty, 42,000; 
 
tosh, 1,757,300; Wheeler, 1,717, 500; and Emanuel, 1 ,864,200. 
 
Long, 580,000; Screven, 602,500; Tattnall, 320,500. 
 
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The young crop of growing seedlings requires constant attention. 
 
Nursery workers,below, are shown weeding out plants that could 
 
do serious damage to the Davisboro Nursery crop. More than 25 
 
mill ion seedlings were shipped from Davisboro last year. 
 
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w. P. Neal, Vocational Ag Teacher, and Holland 
Ware examine a boring from a tree in a recently 
thinned stand in upper left photo. In urner 
 
right photo Ware works with the kiln he uses to produce cnarcoal. He makes charcoal from small unmarketable hardwoods. 
 
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In the last two years Holland Ware, 17, has helped fight more than a hundred forest fires in Troup, Heard, Coweta and Meriwether counties with his own equipment. 
The Hogansville Future Farmer has invested his savings in 133 acres of woodland, and he has taken the initiative in properly managing and protecting from fire the timber on a 5,000 acre tract of family property. 
As a result of his efforts young Ware has won the 1954 state FF A forestry award offere d by the Seaboard Air Line r ailroad in cooperation with the State Department of Education. He and hi s teacher of vocational 
agricul ture, W. P. Neal, will receive $125 each to defray 
t he i r exJ:e nses to the national FFA convention in Kansas City next Octobe r. 
Ot her Seaboard forestry award w1nners are Edwyn M::Daniel, Glenwood, $50; Tommy Long, Bainbridge, $30; and Harry Todd, Folks ton~ $20. 
Two years ago the y oung farmer was given a jePp by h i s gr andfather, R. M. Ware. He eq u i pped 
 
it with $700 worth of fire- fighting apparatus including a plow, hydraulic lift, two back pumps, a backfire torch and other smaller tools. 
' 'Then I sat down and wrote a letter to our neighbors telling them I'd be glad to help them fight their fires without any charge,'' he recalls. He has worked closely with the local forest fire protection unit, often notifies the tower of fires which are first reported to him. 
During the peak season for forest fires the Hogansville lad makes a daily tour of the Wares' 5,000 acres, often driving up to 40 miles. Since he started the practice in 1952 there has been only one fire on the property and it was confined to five acres. 
The award winner says that he became interested in forestry while studying vocational agriculture in the ninth grade. Subsequently, he has attended two summer FF A forestry camps. 
With money that he made coll~cting scrap iron and working in a bedspread plant during the surrmers, Ware booght his first 
 
100 acres. Later, he added 33 acres for only $150 ''because it had just been burned over. '' On these lands he hasplantedlS,OOO pines and plowed firebreaks. 
McDaniel is managing in par- 
tnership with his father, J. N. 
McDaniel, 160 acres of woodland on which during the four years of the partnership they've planted 38,700 slash pines, worked 5,000 gum faces, plowed three miles of firebreaks; cut in improvement thirmings 75 units of pulpwood, 200 fence posts and 150,000 feet of lumber. 
The Glenwooa youth, also 17, collected 25 bushels of slash cones for seed and constructed a fire rake and flap to use in event of fire in the forest. 
Torrmy Long who has just finished his junior year at .Bai~ bridge High has 100 acres 1n h1s forestry project on which he has planted 80,000 seedlings during the last three years. He has plowed and maintains almost four miles of firebreaks. 
 
 JULY, 1954 
 
Disease A nd Jt.t e~ erY'JfAmt&~~ 
Insect Boolc dJ.cu dJ.Vte .fo.u R~ 
 
Release of a new publication, ''Fores t Diseases and Insects of Georgia's tree," was announced this month by the Georgia Forestry Commission. 
Extensively illustrated with detailed photographs and drawings, the 40-page booklet was designed to provide helpful infonnation to the forester, t he forestland owner, and the home owner. 
Three University of Georgia professors wrote the publication. They are L.W.R. Jackson, School of Forestry; G. E. Thompson, Department of Plant Pathology, H. 0. J.und, Department of Entomology. 
Purpose of the book is to describe the most common diseases and insects that attack trees in various stages of growth from seedlings in nurseries to mature trees in both planted and natural stands. Recommendations are given for the control of these diseases and insects. 
References also are made to diseases and insect pes ts of shade and ornamental trees. 
 
Forty-one of the state's 131 Forestry Units have received official commendations from the Georgia Forestry Cormri.ssion for ''out$tanding service in combatting forest fires and for drives that have reduced fire loss.'' 
The counties have been se lected for the ' 'Les s than OneFourth of One Percent Club." a select group composed of Camty Forestry Units which have held the yearly fire loss in their respective counties to les s than ~ of one percent of the total forest acre age. 
Units , r ecognized for their forest fir e control achievement s , their Range rs, and th e p e r cen t age of forestland loss includes the following: 
 
Bryan, G. B. Williams Brooks, E. J, Hall 
Chattahoochee , J,W, Wright, Jr. 
Macon, Che sle y Gilmore Marion, John 0 ' Donnell Stewart, II. L. Branyan Taylor, Austin Guinn True tlen, H. M. Sweat 
Whee ler, Alst on Cherry Cherokee, E . L. Rolan 
 
. 143 . 239 .025 . lB5 . 221 .038 . 151 . 209 . 212 . 125 
 
The book ~oints out f o r est d iseases and 1nsec t pests as two o f the forces ' ' wh ic h work cont inuously to de s troy standing timbe r a nd redu c e t h e value of woodlands and forest products.'' The annual loss f rom insect and d i sease attacks is discussed, a nd t he elimination of the immense l y valuable c hestnut from t he f orests by an uncontrollable disease is cited as an example of a species destr oyed by a forest disease. 
Copies may be obtained from t he Ge orgia Forestry Commission, State Capitol, Atlanta, or from t he Georgia Extension Service, Athe ns. 
 
G ilmer, J. L. Dover Gordon, J. C. MeDeari s Murray, J, W. Jac kson Polk, J. J. Carter 
Whitfield, C. V. Bramle tt Baldwin, Elmer Meeks Jasper, M. 0. McMichae l Jones, E. T. Carnes Monroe, W. W. Jackson. Putnam, Dick Lynch Brantley, Avery Strickland Camden, C. W. Neill Consolidate d - TPO, D. T. Spe lls 
Pierce , R. C. James Wayne, W. G. Morris Barrow, George Bower Franklin, Harold Payne Gwinnett, Roy Thomas Habersham, W. A. De More Hall, C. T. Cantrell, Jr. Jackson, James McEI hannon Lunykin, Bill Littlefield Stephens, Owen J. De an Rabun, N. B. Alter Clarke , Armand J, Cote E lbe rt , Albert M. Moone y Gree ne, H. E . Moore Lincoln, W. fl. Oawkins 
Oglethorpe, John F. Lott Walton, W. D. Palmer Wilkes, T . H. Bullard 
 
. 11 3 .232 .2 19 .175 .2.35 .067 .116 .074 .135 .039 .075 .170 .180 .197 .139 .lOB .106 .204 . 052 .207 .191 .070 .107 .039 . 134 .062 .160 .174 
.068 .165 .030 
 
Guy t on DeLoac h, Director of t he Commi ssion , gave t his praise i n tend ering a commendati on to each Forester or Ranger heading the respective Forestry Unit, and stated that ''in keeping the forestland loss from wildfire to less than one-quarter of an acre out of every ooe- hundred woodland acres protected by your Fares try Unit, you have, with the coq3eration of the citizens of your county, performed an ruts tanding service to your community and to your state.'' 
''This record,'' DeLoach con tinued, ''is evidence of the 
consistent, diligent, and effective work performed by you and your associates in the Fares try Unit, and proves that through a cooperative spirit, the citizens of each Georgia county can overcane the forest fire hazard that constantly threatens our valuable timberlands.'' 
 
 GEORGIA FOR ESTR Y 
5 
 
Annual 4-H Forestry Camp 
 
Held At Laura Walker Park 
 
A full roster of fares try instruction ranging from naval stores operations to wildfire suppression highlighted the recent annual South Georgia 4-H Fares try Camp at laura Walker State Park. 
Fifteen foresters were present 
to instruct more than 100 South 
Georgia 4-H members in latest forest managment practices. 
The boys, who earned the trip to the 4-H camp through work accomplished in forestry projects, studied fire control, tree identification, reforestation, thinning, conditions affecting tree gro.vth, mensuration, and harvesting and marketing. 
Two educational demonstrations, one on naval stores and the other on the use and care of saws, were seen by the 4-H boys. On a tour of the Union Bag and P&per Corporation plant at Savannah they witnessed the drama of ' ' trees to paper. ' ' 
J. J. Armstrong, manager of Union Bag's woodlands division, was one of the featured speakers at the camp. Other speakers included W. A. Sutton, state 4-H Club leader, Guyton DeLoach, director of the Georgia forestry Corrnrrssion, and Walter S. Bro.vn, 
 
associate director of the Agricultural Extension Service. 
Ins true tors for the five -day event were George W. Lavinder, District Forester, Georgia Forestry Commission; H. W. Williams, Jr., Assistant District Forester, Georgia Forestry Commission; Horace Collier, Assistant District Fares ter, Georgia Forestry Commission; William J. Schultz, Conservation Forester, Union Bag; L. A. MCDonough, Forester, Union Bag. 
J. F. Spiers, Forester, Central of Georgia Railroad; Howard J. Doyle, Conservation Forester, Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association; C. 0. Brown, Sandvik Saw and Tool Company; D. Q. Harris, county agent, Telfair County; B. S. Booth, district r~ger, Georgia Forestry Commiss1on; Frank Eadie, Assistant District Forester, Georgia Forestry Commission ; 
Robert H. Tift, Conservation Forester, Union Bag; Charles T. Shea, Area Forester, Naval Stores Conservation Program; E. L. Molpus, Fire Control Forester, Union Bag, and Nelson Brightwell, Assistant Forester, Agricultural Extension Service. 
 
4-H CAMP SCENES--Guyton DeLoach, tup photo, Director, Georgia Forestry Commission, receives plaque in recognition of his service to 4-11. James Jarrett presents plaque. Jlol t Stokes, Early County, and Charles Graham, Dodge County, center photo, plant seedlings. Jim Spiers, below, left, 
 
Central of Georgia Railroad Forester, and L.A. McDonough, Forester, Union Bag and Paper Corp., teach mensuration class. Frank Eadie, below, right, Assistant District Forester, Georgia Forestry Commission, shows Jlolt Stokes and Charles Graham operation of the back pump. 
 
 JU LY , 1954 
 
6 
 
"Lowly Scrub Oak And Black Jack" 
 
s~ ~attte ~eiH9 ?~ 
 
/1~ 'ri'~ 1n '3flea ~ 
 
A s uccessful battle against trac t or 4.5 hours on t he fir s t 
 
one of the most persisten t ene- cutting. Workers girled approx - 
 
mies of the commerc ial f orest - imately 150 trees too large for 
 
the lowly scrub oak and black the tractor to knock down. The 
 
j ack - is being carried on i n an area will be burned to control 
 
extensive tri-coun ty We s t Georgia the fire. 
 
area by t he Inters t a te Land and 
 
On another five -acre plot the 
 
Impr ovement Company . 
 
trees were girled, a proces re- 
 
The battle began in 1951 and quiring six man hours, The area 
 
extends over muc h of a 50 by 20 already had been planted to 
 
mile area - called by some ''the Slash Pine. Another plot was 
 
scrub oak desert' ' - fr om Box harrowed and girdled. Brush was 
 
Springs in Talbo t County to Rey- piled and burned. 
 
nolds in Taylor Countyi. 
 
Hardwood eradication is only 
 
Interstate ' s program in this the initial step in the over-all 
 
a rea, ac cord ing to the firm's Interstate program. Reforesta- 
 
District Fores ter for t he region, tion is the next big step, and 
 
Ross H. Ba t es , consists of far since the fall of 1951, the com- 
 
more than a r ou t in e h ar dwood pany has planted nearly a mil- 
 
e radication program. 
 
lion and a half slash pine seed- 
 
'' I nstead , ' ' s ays Mr . Bates, 
 
lings on its scrub oak land. 
 
" we're carrying on nearly half Next fall and winter another 
 
a dozen hardwood eradication 850, 000 seedlings will be plant- 
 
programs at one time - all de- ed. 
 
signed to determin e wi t h f.inal- 
 
Ross H. Bates, top photo, Dis- 
 
ity which prog ram will be best trict Forester, Interstate Land 
 
from an 'over- a ll standpoint of and Development Co., inspects a 
 
t ime, expense, and l abor. 
 
tree that has been killed by 
 
The Dist r i ct Forester explained girdling. Parker Wimberly, cen- 
 
that when f ina l data is compiled on the test a r eas and the best hardwood e radicati on method is determine d, that method will s erve as t he model for all other Inte r s t ate l ands in need of such work. 
 
ter photo, District Ranger for Interstate, stands beside a plot which has been harrowed and burned to kill undesirable hardwoods. In photo below, Ranger Wimberly, Talbot County Ranger Curtis Wiggins, and District For- 
 
Old time s ettlers in Talbot Count y still hearken hack to the 
 
ester Bat es stand on an area which wil l be planted to slash 
 
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day when the current ''scrub pine next fa ll. 
 
oak des ert'' was a land of tow- 
 
ering virgin Longleaf Pines, 
 
many of them of tremendous girth 
 
by today's standards. Sawmilling operations and u~ 
 
checked wildfires took theu 
 
t oll however, and today's vast 
 
area' of scrub oak and black jack 
 
is the result. 
 
' 'Ole problem,'' District Ranger Parker Wimberly added, ''is 
 
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to get that land back into pro- 
 
duction.'' 
 
Bates and Wimberly have super- 
 
vised the clearing of sic plots. 
 
On one area, which covers five 
 
acres, workers used a crawler 
 
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 GEORGIA FORESTRY 
 
7 
 
FFA School Forest Awards Announced 
 
Selection of the Soperton, 
 
Baxley, Homerville and Camilla 
 
chapters for state and district awards in the FFA school forest program has been announced by 
 
T. G. Walters, state supervisor 
 
of agricultural education. 
 
Soperton, runner-up to Spring- 
 
field in 1953, wins the Southeast 
 
Georgia district and state awards. 
 
The chapter will receive $175, 
 
and H. H. Glisson, teacher of 
 
vocational agriculture, will get 
 
an additional $100. 
 
Homerville chapter, second in 
 
the state and first in the South- 
 
west Georgia district, will re- 
 
ceive a $75 award with a like 
 
amount go1ng to Adviser Joe 
 
Brooks. 
 
Baxley and Camilla, second in their respective districts, will 
 
receive $50. 
 
The vo-ag tea- 
 
chers in each school willget an 
 
additional $50. The y are A. R. 
 
Tuten, Baxley; E. G. Ford, and 
 
Leroy Thomas, Camilla. 
 
Sponsored jointly by the State Department of Education and the 
 
Union Bag and Paper Corporation, Savannah 10-acre school forests are bei~g maintained by voca- 
 
tional agriculture students in 
 
48 South Georgia high schools. 
 
Objective of the program is to 
 
point up the importance of trees 
 
as a farm crop, and give Future Farmers practical experience in good forest management. 
Conservation foresters for Union Bag have cooperated with vo-ag teachers by helping them plan school forests and by giving demonstrations on forestry jobs. 
Other schools which were considered by the judges for top awards were Bainbridge, Lanier County High, Waresboro, Nichols, Jesup and Jeff Davis County high s c hools. The judges were Cecil Clapp, U. S. Forest Service; Howard Doyle, forester, Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association, and Jack Gilchrist, farm editor, the Atlanta Constitution. 
Records of the Soperton chapter show that its members on their home projects plowed almost 25 miles of firebreaks, collected and sold for seed 1,125 bushels of pine cones, planted 31, 000 pine seedlings, thinned 12 acres, and made improvement cuttings on 305 acres. 
One of the features of the Soperton program was a Forest Appreciation Day on which 307 students and teachers were conducted on a tour of the FFA forest and told about the work being done there. 
In one area of the forest, 
 
tenth graders are working 20 trees for naval stores, using the old wood hack method on half the pines and the new bark hack with acid treatment on the others. Each tree bears the name of a grade of rosin so that the Future Farmers will became familiar with these. 
In another area slash seedling have been planted at different spacings to observe the rate of 
growth under different condi- 
tions. On two adjacent quarteracre plots, the effect of thinning is being observed. One plot has been thinned, the remaining trees numbered and their diameters recorded. On the plot trees that should have been removed in a thinning operation have been banded yellow, all the trees numbered and their diameters recorded. 
During the year the Soperton v o-ag classes have made field trips to the Horseshoe Bend nursery operated by the Georgia Forestry Commission, to fire control towers in Treutlen County, and to the Knox Lumber Company. Harry Sweat, local forest ranger, expl~ined to the classes methods of spotting and controlling fires. At the lumber com- 
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Soperton High School, second place winner in the school forest program last year, is first place winner this year. Inspecting last year's second place sign in bottom left photo are (left to right) H. H. Glisson, Vocational Ag Teacher; J, N. Baker, District Supervisor, Vocational Agriculture Depart- 
 
ment; Howard J, Doyle, Area Forester, SPCA; Cecil 
Clapp, u.s. Forest Service; and Russell Collins, 
Sopertou FFA President. In bot tom right photo Coli ins explains some of the work carried on in 
the Soperton School Forest last year to Mr. Baker and T.E. Arnette, Union Bag and Paper Corp. 
 
 .IUL.I 1 17;)'1' 
 
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Rangers In The News 
 
REA subscribers in Wilkinson, Laurens, and Twiggs Counties are 
receiving Keep Green appeals this summer along with their 
Rural Electrification Association magazine, "Live Wire.  The project is the result of cooperation between Wilkinson County Ranger Herbert Billue and REA officia1 s in his area. The Ranger supplied the organization with Smokey Bear bookmarks and blotters, which were inserted in the magazine mailed to all REA subscribers in the three counties. 
The Ranger also instituted 
another I. &E. innovation with 
the supplying of wildfire prevention appeals to ''rolling stores'' which visit rural areas in his county and distribute the literature as sales are made in various farm houses. 
 
NEW HEADQUARTERS FOR WHITFIELD CO UNTY FORESTRY UNI T- -C omm issi on personnel at Dalton are very proud of t his mortern building whi ch will serve as their Forestry Unit headquarte rs. 
 
 
Sixteen Rangers from District 7 recently obtained a :first hand look at one of the sources of their fire suppression plows. 
The 16 men, attending a district 
rangers' meeting at Cedartown, were taken on a tour through the Rome Plow Company. Counties represented were Bartow, Catoosa , Chattooga, Cherokee, Cobb, Dade , Floyd, Gilmer, Gordon, Haralson, Murray, Paulding, Pickens, Walker, Whitfield, and Polk. 
 
Rapid and effect i ve fire suppression work on the part of personnel of the Fulton County Forestry Uni t recent! y resulted in a written commendation by the Rico Civic Cl ub at that count y . 
''Inasmuch,' ' the club's resolution de clared, '' as a s mall trash fire sta rted by Mr. H. T. Smith spread r apidly by a sudden high wind on Sunday, March 21 , through his yard endange ring his laying houses, and thence into hi s woods be yond control endangeri ng t he f orest of the whole community, the Fulton County Forest Control at Be n Hill was summoned f or help, and, 
' 'Inasmuch as the three crewmen arrived p romptly, and by their efficient work gained 
 
immediate con tro l of the fire . 
' ' Be it resol ved that thi s body go on record as commending t he efficiency of the Fulton County Forest Fire system and e s pecially the efficiency of Ra nger Roy Ro~rtson, Assistant Patr olmen W. C. Baker and Donald P ound in their performance of duty in controlling this fir e promptly and saving the Rico community untold loss which would have resulted. 
' 'Be it further resolved that copies of this resolution be forwarded to the Director of t he Forestry Commission, the Fulton County Commissioners, the County Agent, the Fulton County Forester and Mr. H. T. Smith.'' 
 
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Rayonier Holds Formal Opening 
 
For Cellulose Plant In Jesup 
 
Formal ceremonies opening the mamouth new $25 million Jesup plant of Rayonier, Inc. were held June 23. Governor Hennan E. Talmadge was principal speaker at the opening festivities. 
The plant employs 450 persons in the production of purified wood cellulose to be used in the manufacture of cellophane, hightenacity rayon yarn, continuous filament yarns, staple fiber, plastics, acetate sheeting and film. A!lnual capacity of the plant will be 87,000 tons. 
Governor Talmadge reported that Georgia n<JN ranks among the leading states of the nation in the pulp and paper industry with 13 
plants either in operation or under construction. 
''With 13 pulp and paper mills either in operation or under 
construction Georgia is one of the nation's leaders 1n this great manufacturing field, '' Talmadge said. ''Georgia has led the South in the production of pulpwood and pulp products for the past three years and now is turning out more than 10 per cent of the nation's entire output,'' he said. 
''The Rayonier plant, '' Talmadge continued, ''is an excellent example of the type of sound indus try Georgia is eager to attract." 
 
''Timber,'' the governor said, "is Georgia's greatest natural resource with three of every four aeres in Georgia devoted to it. Because the state with its mild climate and abundant rainfall can produce pulpwood in 12 years and saw logs in 25 years, it is important that Georgians encourage the devel oprrent of industry which will utilize it." 
Talmadge said developrrent of the timber indus try must be coordinated with a continuing program of conservation. During the past few years, he said, Georgia has advanced from 46th to first among the states in the number of privately <JNned acres of timber under organized fire protection and the state is producing a sufficient number of seedlings to meet demands for reforestation. 
''Georgia 1s n<JN realizing some $600 million every year from its forests, an lllCOire which has doubled since 1948, "' he said. "Knowledge of this staggering potential should be sufficient for development, '' he said. 
The Rayonier plant is one of 35 new timber industry projects began last year totaling over $140 million in new capital investments in Georgia. 
 
Attending opening ceremonies were, left to right, left photo, 
Clyde B. Morgan, president, Rayon ier, Inc.; William A. Parker, board chairman of Rayonier, and John A. Sibley, Trust Company of Georgia board chairman. Governor Talmadge, right photo, was principal speaker for the occasion. 
 
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New Editorial Aids Mat Proof Book recently.released by the American FOrest Products Industries. 
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Release of a new Editorial Aids Mat Proof Book, designed especially for editors of daily anrl weekly newspapers, was announced this month by American Fotest Products Industries. 
The 16-page book contains reproductions from editorial mats on a variety of forestry subjects available free of charge from the nationwide fares try organization1. The books have been mailed to all daily and weekly newspaper editors in the state. 
Photographs, news articles, illustrations and fillers are among the materials available in mat form. One of the new features available is a one column illustrated filler entitled, ''Facts About Forests.'' 
Another ne.v feature is an 11strip series of a new cartoon portraying the adventures of 
Woody, popular cartoon character who acts as representative of the forest indus tries. 
Forestry topics covered in the publication include reforestation, fire prevention, farm forestry, wood preservation, timber and wildfire, forestry as a career, and forest industries. 
 
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District 2: Baker, 617,500; Brooks , 471 ,000; Cal houn, 846, 000; Cl ay , 264, 000; Colqui tt, 131 , 700; Cook, 42, 600; Decatu r , 2,315,500; Dougherty, 1,595,000; Early, 246,925; Grady , 335, 500; Miller, 168,500; Mitchell , 996, 500; Seminole, 591,100; Thomas, 1,143,250; Tift, 270,500; Worth, 381,800. 
District 3: Chat t ahoochee, 
216,000; Crisp, 685,000; Dool y, 292,500; Lee 890,500; Macon, 
338,200; Marion, 977,500; Muscogee, 200,500; Quitman, 82,800; 
Randolph, 1 ,279,200; Schley, 
220,500; Stewart, 1,333,500; 
Sumter, 809,650; Talbot, 905,000; Taylor, 2,069,000; Terrell, 591; 300; Webster, 1,232,300. 
District 4: Butts, 158,500; 
Carroll, 404, 000; Clayton, 16, 000; Coweta, 519,500; Douglas, 134,000; Fayette, 263,575;Harri s, 105,500; Heard, 231,000; Henry , 
109,000; Lamar, 62,200; Meriwether, 445,000; Newton, 107,000; Pike, 135 ,500; Rockdale, 9, 000; Spalding, 95,750; Troup, 551, 000; Upson, 524,600; 
District 5: Ben Hill, 1, 156, 150; Bleckley, 508 ,400; Dodge, 2, 279 ,500; Houston, 168, 400; Irwin, 504,000; Jeff Davis, 585 , 600; Laurens, 1,444,600; Montgomery, 512,100; Pulaski, 274,000; 
Telfair, 1,790,700; Toombs, 450 , 900; Treutlen, 494,500; Turner, 437,000; Wheeler, 1,717,500; 
Wilcox, 1,995,500. District 6: Baldwin, 368,500 ; 
Bibb, 174,000; Crawford, 2,015 , 
450; Glascock, 157,000; Jasper , 605,500; Hancock, 290,000; Jef ferson, 1,871,500; Johnson, 397; 000; Jones, 78,000; Monroe, 548, 000; Peach, 236 ,250; Putnam, 42,000; Twiggs, 188,000 ; Was hington, 601 ,600; Wilkinsm, 77, 000. 
District 7: Bartow, 460,000 ; Catoosa, 9,500; Chattooga, 372, 000; Cherokee, 94,500 ; Cobb, 107,000; Floyd, 220,500 ; Gilmer, 120, 000; Gordoo, 159, SOO; Haral soo, 99,500; Murray, 1 ,31 6 , 000; Paulding, 430 , 000; Pi ckens, 55 , 000; Polk, 148 ,500; Wal ker, 112, 500; Whitfi eld, 1 ,431,000. 
 
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NEW DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS--District Office personnel of Distric t 4, Georgia FO r e s t ry Commission, now are establ i shed in th i s newly c ons t ruc ted headquarters. The building is located on u. s. Highway 29 t wo miles s outh of Newnan . 
 
District 8: Appling, 688,600; 
 
Atkinson, 396, 800 ; Bacon, 928, 
 
500; Berrien, 74 ,0 00; Brantley, 
 
1 , 357,000; Canrlen, 1,586,000; 
 
Charlton, 3, 132, 000; Clinch, 
 
72 2 ,000; Coffee , 32 3,000; Echols, 
 
391, 000; Glynn, 856,000; Lani er~ 
 
341,000; Lowndes, 2,328,400; 
 
Pier ce, 771 ,500; Ware, 509,000; 
 
Wayne, 943,000; 
 
 
 
Di strict 9: Banks, 61, 500; Barrow, 167, 450; Dawsm, 178, 500; Dekalb, 125, 000; Fanni n, 14 ,000; Franklin , 85, 500; Forsyt h, 184 ,3 00; Gwinnet t, 153, 000; Habersham, 37 9,5 00; Hall, 183 , 500; Jackson, 157,250; Lumpkin, 55 ,500; Rabun, 18 , 000 ; Stephens, 151 ,000 ; White , 95,500. 
 
Distri ct 10: Cl arke , 752,650; 
Columbia, 155, 700 ; El l::ert, 526; 150; Greene, 889, 000; Hart, 90, 500; Lincoln 115, 000; Madison, 127,300 ; MdDuffie , 312,000; Morgan, 93 ,500; Oconee, 55,000; Oglethorpe, 424,000; Richmond, 1,618,500; Taliaferro, 48,000; Walton , 130,000; Warren, 43,500; Wilkes, 451,600. 
 
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pany, the boys sea l ed logs and l earned to measure l umber in a log by us i ng t he Doyle, Scribner and International log ru les. 
Sam Lyle, conservation fo rest e r for Union Bag, and R. E. Almond of Internationa l Pu lp and Pape r Company helped Mr . Glisson se t up plots to give classes experience in curis i ng timber and marking trees for thinning. Every Future Farmer at Soperton made and learned to use a bilt more stick. 
Out of the 51 FFA rrembers at Hanerville only 20 who are eleventh and twelfth grade students have studied forestry jobs this year and worked in the sch ool forest.. The plan for the demonstration area was developed by Mr. Brooks, J. B. Cliff, Clinch County soil ~onserva tionist; and Bill Schultz, Union Bag conservation forester. It calls for seven plots to show reforestation and timber gra.vth under different conditions, and it has been put into operation by the Future Farmers under Mr. Brooks' direction. 
 
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Forest industries ond tox  supporte d og encies spend millions of dollars protecting the woods from fire. Much of this greot expense could be saved if the generol public would exercise greeter core with fire in or neor the woods. You con help keep America Green! 
 
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