Georgia forestry, Vol. 8, no. 9 (Sept. 1955)

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GEORGIA FORESTRY

Editorial County Attacks

Trees: Valuable Annual Crop
(Fr om d te Macon Te legraph)

Georgia farmers enj oy an annual
incorre of mor e than 168 million
dollars from their tree crop.
The use and v alue of trees as a crop has come a long way in our state. Only a few years ago, trees were regarded as something of a handicap to the farm. Trees were burned off or clear cut at the earliest opportunity, and almost any offer a sawmill man or a pulpwood cutter made the farmer was accepted.
Today, thanks to the Georgia Forestry Commission and the other organizations which have worked to teach us the value of trees, the Georgia farmer considers trees one of his most important crops.
Few c rops raised in our state require less investment, care and cultivation than trees. Whe n <" farmer plants corn or cotton or other row crops he must use his

best land, invest money in seed, fertilizer, insect fighting, and labor, and face such fluctuating factors as markets and harvest costs.
To the tree farmer, weather, labor, and markets are minor considerations. He can harvest when it is convenient and when the market is right.
With natural reforestation and with the pine seedlings provided by the Georgia Forestry Commission, the farmer can have a tree crop at small cost. With proper management he can make an income from the tree over a long pe riod.
As tree crops have incre~sed in
Georgia, more and more farmers have learned proper forest management. Seldom, today, do we find clear cutti ng of trees; seldom does the tree grower of today se ll timbe r without selective cutting.

Vol. 8

GEORGIA FORESTRY
September, 1955 Published Monthly
by the GEORGIA FORESTRY COl\ll\IISSIO~,
State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia Guyton DeLoach, Director

No.9

Members, Board of Commiss ioners :

K. S. Yarn, Chairman ______________ __ _______________________________________________Waycross

Sam H. Morgan __ _______ Savannah

C. 1\L J ordan, J r. ___________________Alamo

J ohn M. McElrath __________ ______ Macon

H. 0. Cummings _______ Donalsonvill e

Georgia Forestry is entered as second class matter at the Post

Office under the Act of .\ugu st 24, 1912. Member of the Georgia

Press Association.

E DITOR

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____ ____ Richard E. Davis

ASS OCIATE E DITORS

_Robert Ruth erford, Donna Howard

DISTRICT OFFICES, GEO* RG* IA* FO* RESTRY COl\1:\IISSION:

DI ST RICT !,-Route 2, Statesboro

DISTRICT VI - P. 0. Box 505, l\lilledgeville

DI ST RI CT 11- P. 0. Box 26, Camilla

DISTRICT VII-Route 1, Rom e

DI ST RICT 111-P. 0. Box 169, Amer icus

DISTRICT VI II-P. 0. Box 811, Wa ycross

DIST RI CT IV-P. 0 . Box 333, Newnan

DISTRICT IX-P. 0. Box 416, Gainesvi lle

DISTRICT V-P. 0. Box 328, McRae

DISTRICT X-P. 0. Box 302, Washington

Forest Insects
(From the Vidalia Advance)
Toombs County now has a forest pest control committee, with a great portion of the county in woodlands, and the fact that Geor-
g ia is already reaping some $750
million annually from her fo rests, we think this is the most important committee that could have been named. We think that through its active function, it can make a greater cont ribution to the economic stability of the county and state, than any other single group.
Similar committees are being suggested for all of Georgia's 159 counties, and parti cul arl y those with great areas of woodlands, and we wool d like to commend the authorities for t he prompt naming of the committPe for this county.
AI though the committee's ruajor
objective will be toward the control of tree pest s, their services will be invaluable in other ways, since through their efforts on this assignment, they will make suggestions that will help in an overall planning of woodl~d management.
The job for this important committee is tremendous. However, it can be done successful} y, but the committee needs, and is deserving of, and should have, wholehearted support and cooperation of every 1and owner of the county. Since considerable damage by pine tree insects has been apparent for several months, and the need for control measures is very definite,
it behoov es all 1 andowners to
make the assistance to this committee one of the major parts of their tree farming program. County Agent, Eugene Brogdon , County Fore st Ranger, Bethea Clifton, W. H. Taylor, county SCS technician, and M. W. Fuffin, of the U.S. Forest Service, ar e members of the co1mty committee.

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Georgia Ranks
First In Tree
F,arrn Acreage
Georg ia 1 anclowners now l ead the na tion in TrPe Fann acreage. Texas , a long- time 1eadet in the Tree Farm program, fell to se cond plac e .
Georg ia' s Tree Farm Committee, in a recent Macon meeting, certifi eel an ad d i t i 0 n a 1 1'044' oq? acres of Georgi a land as Tree Fanns, bringi115 the state TrPe Fann area to an all- time high of 3, n72, 842 acr es . TI1is acreage i s more than one acr e for every pers on in the state and 234,772 acres mo r e than Texas.
Other states sharing si gnificant honor s in tree crops are Arkansas, with 3,300,555 acres; Oregon, with 3,25q,079; Washington which ha s 3,231,608 acres; Florida, which ha s 3,]77,321 acres, and Alabama, with 3,043,()39 acres.
The Tree Farm system is a nationwide pro g ram spo nsor ed by the wood - u s ing indu stries to give r ecognition and encouragement to priv ate tim!Jerl and owners who are int erested in gro wing tree c rops .
Lmdowners must meet ri gid standards of forest managem e nt in order to qualify as tree farmers. They are required to prot ect their woodlands from fire, insects, disease and ot her hazards. The owne r s must harves t trees to assure a continuing production of commercia l forest crops, and plant trees on idl e acres and land not suit ed to other crops.
!3. E. Allen, Chainnan of th e Georgia Tree Fann Committee, said , "The work of the Comrni ttee in certifying enough 1 and to put Georgia above s uch states as Texas, Wn s hi ngton and Oregon was made possible only because our landovm e rs nre doing s u ch an PXcel1 en t j oL . " All en p o i n t e d out that ''joining the program i s e ntirely voluntary, and the 1ando~n e r must b e willin g to s ubnit his woodlands to clo se in s pection."

'New Look' Now Adorns

'56 Keep Green Contest

Announ ceme nt of a '' comp l etely revis e d and r ejuvenate d" 'K eep Geor g i n Gree n' Contest wa s made thi s month by Kirk Sutlive, s tate chairman of the Georgia Forestry Association' s annual Keep Gr een contest.
Entry deadline for the new co ntest isNovember 15. Mr. Sutlive estimated that as a result of the revised rul es , nearly all of the 143 counties under protection of Georgia Fores try Commi ss ion forc es are expected to enter the 1955-5() contest.
Hather than all eligibl e counties in the state participating on a state basis, as they have in the past, Georgia Forestry Association officials have set up competition on a Georgi a Forestry Commission forestry district
basi s . A winne r will be announced from eac h for es try district, and the 10 winners ~hen will compete on a statewide basis.
Di s trict winners wi 11 be awarded a $100 prize. State prizes for which distri ct winners will compete will be $1,000 for first prize and $500 for second prize. The ranger of the winning county in the sta t e co ntest will be awarded a $100 priz e . A $50 cash prize i s s lated for the Distri c t Fore s t e r with the 1argest percentage of e li gi bl e cow1ti es participating .
Mr. Sutlive also repor ted the new cont est will tend to de-emph asize the county forest fire record as a means of c omputing points. Increased emphas is, howeve r, will be placed on organized fire prevention activities of the communiti es ' citizens .
Total points of 1,000 will be divid ed as foil ows: Fires, fir e control, 100; co unty council and committees, 100; community and county participation, 200; publi c ity, 100; rnanagPment, 200; puLli c demon s trat ion s, 100; sign ~ and posters, 100; and other acti viti es, I 00.

Keep Green Winners
1956 ?.

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GEORGIA FOR EST RY

Cone Collection Season

Ope ns T roughout State

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Georgia's 1955 pine co ne c oll e ction offi ciall y open ed thi s month as Guyton DeLoa c h, Direc tor, Georgia Fo res tr y Commi s sion, re-emphasized c ontinuou s need for cooperation from 1 and owners throughout the stat e.
Th e Fores try Commission's quota of approximate] y 66,000 bushels for thi s year's cone collection is a 35 per cent increase ove r the 1954 collection. Quotas of bushels for Commission districts are: Americus, 7, 150; Cami 11 a, 5, 200 ; Gainesville, 1,100; McRae, 12,1100; Milledgeville, 3, 000; Rome, 57 5; Statesboro, 15, 150, and Washington, 3,000.
"It i s imperative that the Commission have the campi ete support of the public if Georgi a's future
vast reforestration prograns are to be successful ," stated Mr. DeLoach. He urged all Georgia citizens interested in the development of forestry resources in Georgia to sell their cones to cone collection dealers within the state, and not to out-of-state dealers. Seed from pine con es sold

to the Forestry Cornmi ssion wi 11 be planted in Georgia forest tree nurseries and distributed to Georgians. Selling of cones to other states wi 11 "further the reforestation programs of those states, and not benefit the state of Geor gi a," said the Cornmi ssion Director .
"Georgia's valuabl e, but often forgotten crop of pine cones offers the farmer a profitable fall income for very little effort,'' pain ted out Sanford Darby, Commission Reforestation 01ief.
Mr. Darby reminded Georgians of the prices that the Commission is paying for various species of cones. Pickers will receive 50 cents a bushel for 1ongl eaf pine and 90 cent s a bushel for slash pine. Loblolly cones are worth $1.25 a bushel, and white pine cones will bring $2 per bushel.
The refa resta tion chief urged farmers and landowners to join in the cone call ection and take advantage of "this extra dollars and cents crop now on your trees.''
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coNE DEL 1 vERy - Scenes such as this will b~ re peated many ti mes in Geo r gia during the next few months as cones are gathered from field stations and delivered to drying sheds.

Representatives of state and private forest fire fighting agencies, meeting recently in Macon at a se s sion called by the Georgia For e stry Corrrni s sion, adopted a statewide fi re control plan.
The plan, aimed at coor dinating efforts in combating major f orest fires, calls for train i ng in for est fire fighting me t hods to be conducted on local leve l s and for overall coop e rat i on by fire fighting groups i n majo r emer gencies.
H. E. Ruark, Fire Contro l 01ief, Georgia Forestry Corrrniss i on , has been named chairman o f a coor dinating committee whic h will set up objectives for the local groups.
Representatives from private industry, large landowners, fores t products users, and others attended the meeting.
Unt il permanent committees can be set up, district committees wi 1J be headed bv f o res t ers in the Corrrnission' s '10 districts. They will emphasize training and fire prevention and will determine on a 1 o c a] 1 eve 1 how to handle lo cal problems~.
1l1 e group discussed forestry conmuni cation from Geor gia units to those in ne i ghboring states durin g a fir e an d mad e plan s to conta c t th e Fe de ral Conmunication s Commi ss ion in an attempt to 1i cense s t a t e to s tate radio c ontrol.
St ate and ind u s tr y l e aders follo win g th e mee ting predicted set ting up the eme r genc y plans wil 1 in futur e eme r genc i es re s ult
in even great er coordin a tion and
c oo peratio n be tw ee n th e two groups t h an h as been evid enced i n th e past.
"A cone re t e mPans now e xi sts , " t hey pointed out , " fo r t he coo pera t i on which al ways has oeen evident'ed in the past."

SEPTEMBER, 1955

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I&E, Nursery,
Management
Meet At Macon ,;;o
More than 80 forestry 1eaders from 12 Southern states gathered at Macon, Georgia, last month to attend the annual meeting of Southern Information and Education, Refor estation and Management Oliefs and Nurserymen.
ThPme of the meeting centered about devising new means of utilizing information and education media to give the public a greater realization of the dollars and cents profits to be gained from good woodland management and reforestation methods.
Tours to the Georgia Forestry Center, Hitchiti Experimental Station, the Georgi a Forestry Commission's Davisboro nursery and to Ocmul gee National Monument were made by delegates of the three organizations attending the three-day meeting.
Bibb County Representative Denmark Groover addressed a j oint banquet session of the gr?up a~d cited the cha ll enges which he ahead for Southern foresters in acquainting the public with the many phase s of good management and reforestation.
Earlier during the meeting Guyton LeLoach, Commission Director, wel corned the group to Georgi a, to Macon and to the Georgi a Forestry Center.
Morgan Smith, Assistant to th e Chief of the Cooperative Forest Fire pr eve ntion program, addressed the Information and Education 01iefs' meetings. Chi efs of Reforestation and Management who a d d r e s s e d the management g roup were C. B. Mar1in, of th e Arkansas Forestry Comnission; R. A. Bonninghausen, of the Florida Fore st ServicP, and E. C. Pickens, of the South Carolina Forestry C.ornm i ssion.
Representatives attended the meetin g from Georgi a, Fl oricla, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, Vir ginia, Maryland, Mississippi, Loui siana, Oklahoma, Kentucky and TPnnessee.

Georgia's pulp and paper industry topped all other Southern states in tree planting in the 1954-'55 season, the Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association reported this month.
H. J. Mal sberger, Forester and General Manager of the SPCA. revealed that 44,681,200 trees were planted by 13 pulp and paper companies and five pulpwood suppliers who cooperated in the survey. Companies accounted for 44, 371, 200 trees being planted in Georgia and suppliers 310,000.
The planting program by industry and pulpwood suppliers exceeded the 1953-'54 program in Georgia by over two mill ion trees.
Florida was second in the South, planting 39,399, 500 trees. Last year Florida led the region and Georgi a was second.
Companies and sup p 1 i e r s purchased 45,360,050 trees from Georgia state nurseries while 1, 870, 450 were raised in company nurseries. Brunswick Pulp & Paper Company of Brunswick, raised 1,285,000 trees in its nursery

whi 1e Union Bag & Paper Corporation of Savannah rai sffl 584, 550 in its nurseries.
Companies participating in this program were Brunswick Pulp & Paper Company, Gai r Wood} and s Corporation, Armstrong Cork Company, Rayonier, Inc., Georgia Kraft Company, St. Marys Kraft Corporation, Union Bag & Paper Corporation, International Paper Company, West Virginia Pulp md Paper Company, St. Regis Paper Company, Bowaters Southern Paper Corporation, Container Corporation of Am eric a, and the Champion Paper and Fibre Company.
Pulpwooo suppliers in Georgia who participated in the planting program were B. E. Pelham of Ella ville; Leo Mooradian of Hapeville; J. T. Strahan Company of Port Wentworth; Varn Timber Company of Hoboken; andTurnel1 and Morgan of Madison.
Southwide pulp and paper industry accounted for 181,856,000 trees being planted over an 11-
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CONSERVATION AWARD- T. M. Strickland receives Woodman of tht' World Conservation award for outstanding work as Richmond County Ranger. The group includes, left to right, Mrs. T. M. Strickland, and sons Thurman and David.

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GEORGIA FORESTRY

$16,000,000 Annually

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Operators and \\orkers in Georgia ' s $16,000 ,000 a year wood preserving industry today ar e wri t ing a l eading chapter in the state's story of forest conserv ation.
R. L. Osborne, American Wood
Preserver s In st itut e, Atlanta, pointed out this month that the 17 Georgia plant s wh i ch report their ann ual output to t he U. S. Forest Service accounted for a total of 169,000,000 board feet o f treated t i mber last year.
"When this output i s t ran s}ated into r esour ce savings and economic benefits, " declared Mr . Osborne, " the contribution of the wood preserving indu st r y to the econom y of Geo r gia i s of substantial si gnificance ."
Forest economists are quick to point out that timber resource savings are in direct propo rtion

to the incr eased service life res ulting f rom proper wood preser vation. Pressure treating of Geo r gia' s railro ad cross ties, poles, pi ling and structural timhers, for examp l e , increases their 1i fe four-fold and more. Simil a r1 y, the pressure tr eatment of fence posts and timber u sed on farms increases their li fe from five or s i x years to 25 or 30 years or 1anger.
" Consequently ," explained the District Manage r, " timbe r resource savings can be estimated to to t a l at l east two to three times t he annual output o f treated tim ber in the state.''
In order of their importance, material treated in Georgia plants l ast year included poles, cro ss ties and switch t i es , lumber, pil ing and fence posts.
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DE BARKING - \\Orker removes bark from pine pole in the woods. The pole is slated for transportation to a wood preservation company. In the wood preserving industcy, raw materials are obtained f rom large numbers of -small operators. MallY Georgia farmers have found direct benefits from selling part of their timber crop to wood preservation firms or indirect benefits from treating their own poles and posts.

POL E FRAME STRUCTURES - SUn

with pressure treated poles boost milk pro-

duction in hot weather. Poles are

ted against insects and decay . The pressure treatment

insures a long period of use. Th is construction eliminates high cost foundations. Poultry

houses, machinery sheds, corn cri bs unker silos and carports also are being built of pole

f rame co nstruction.

RESE ARCH - Laboratory ani storage area shows small section of test yard employing commercial cross section pole stubs. Stubs and test pieces have been placed yearly in this testing ground since 1942. In timber procurement and wood preservation, research is an important factor. Research workers and laboratory leaders are continually seeking new ways to increase the life span of wood products.

LOADING POLES FOR TRANSPORT 'I1TREATING PLANT-Valuable peelea poles are loaded on trailer t rucks r movment to the wood preserving plant. Poles are loaded direc~ fran the trucks at the plant to
the trams for treating.

R EM OVING TREATED CHARGE - Diesel electric locomotive removes treated charge from cylinder at the East Point plant of Southern Wood Preserving Co. Slightly more than 98 per cent of the timber treated in Georgia iast year was processed by pressure treating.

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FU'IURE mEE moPS--Rows of tree seedlings stretch to the horizon in Georgia's Hightower Nursery in Dawson County. U~ese Loblolly seedlings are part of the record crw being grmm in the state's four IIIrseri es.

White County lnitiates

Forest Fire Protection

White County has become the 143rd Georgia county to join the organized protection system of the Georgia For es try Commi s sion.
The cow1t y c am e under protection August 15, according to Guyton DeLoach, Director, Georgia Forestry Commission. White and Habersham Counties will operate as a combined unit under the 1eadership of Ranger W. A. DeMore.
Ranger De\1ore has headed t he Haber sham unit for the past four years.
Director DeLoach congratulated the cit ize ns of ~hite County and assured them the cost of participation "wi 11 be returned many times over in the form of a strengthened forest economy."
''The prevention or the rapid s uppression of one single forest f ire, " he declared, "could in many ins tances during. a dry sea son. save an amount of timber in Wh ite Co unty equal in value to c o st of ope ration of the Unit for and entire year."
District Forest e r 0 . C. Burtz, of Gainesvi ll e, al so lauded the

move and cited not only the fire
suppression benefits but said Ranger DeVIore already has begun an intensive program in the countY. to emphasize fire prevention, acquaint citizens with good forest management methods, reforestation plans, and other forestry phases.
Surveys now ar ~ under way to det ermine a forest fire lookout tower site. Cost of e recting the tower will Le borne entire} y Ly the s tate.
With the entr y of White County into the orga nized protection system of the Georgia Forest ry Cornrni ssion, only 11) counties in Georgia now are without protection.
These counties are Miller, Baker, Webster , Quitman, Randolph, Fayette, Ro c kdal e, J eff Davis, Hou sto n, Peach, John so n, Lanier, Un ion, Towns, Hart, and Tall iaferro.
White County has 8f1,800 acres of for est land. State and private forest area under protection in Georgia now totals 20,937,4f12 acres. Unprotected lands total 1,567,338 acres.

Recent Congressional approval of an increased appropriation of $300,000 to strengthen slash- I ong1eaf pine research is expected in years to com e to provide untold benefits to wood 1 and owners of Georgia and oth er Southern states.
Spearheading effo rt s for this increase wa s the Forest Fa rmers Associ at ion of Atlant a, in cooperation with numerous other Southern forestry g roups. 1l1e g roups included the American Turpentine Farmer s Association; Louisiana Forestry Association; Mississippi Fore stry Association; Forestry Committee, Florida State Chamber of Commerce; Gum Processors Association; and the Florida Board of Forestry.
J. V. Whitfield, pres ident, Forest Farmers Association, said, "lheU.S. Fores t Serv i ce's s lashlongleaf pine research centers, which we helped get establish, d in 1947, had never had any increase in appropriations since they were created. With the trE mendous advances in forestry development activity, research on these vital trees was beginning to 1 ag . We ar e, of cours e , delighted at the addi tiona] $300,000 appropriation and the s t epped-up re se arr.h it will make poss ibl e."
Fe deral research work centers over the South benefiting from this increased appropriation are located at Cordele; Lak e Gty; Florida; Marianna, Florida; La Belle, Florida.; Br ewton and Birmingham, AI a.; Gul port, Mi ss.; Alexandria, La.; and Nacogdoches, Texas.
ll1i s increase was 1ncluded in a r ecord overall budget for the U.S. Forest Service whi c h was upped $Q,41)3,439 over last year' s fi g ure. Resea r ch also r e ceiv ed an addi tion a} $400,000 , g iving this i ten a total inc rease o f $7 00, 000.

Rangers In
T e News

Frank Davenport, Ranger, Fannin

County Forest r y Unit, led off

Georgia's annual county fair sea-

son by being the first of Geor-

gi a's 136 rang ers to set up a

forestry exhibit in a 1955 fair. The exhibit, utilizing the

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"Little Snokey Bear" th e me,

showed by means of flashing pan-

e l s the familiar and traditional

bear cubs pointing out common forest fire prevention tips. Ranger Davenport's exhibit was shown the third week in August.
Three other North Georgi a rangers followed the Fannin exhibit with fair exhibits on forestry in their own counties the
following week. They were Barrow County Ranger J. L. llive r, and Hall County Ranger Owen J. Dean.

NEW ''CASTLE'' FOR COBB COUNTY

UNIT- Gracing U.S. 41 near Mariet-

ta is the newly completed headquar-

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ters of the Cobb Forestry Unit.

Built in impressive ranch style,

the beautiful building, above,

includes both spacious headquar-

ters for the unit and living-

quarters for the Ranger. In the

headquarters area are offices for

the Ranger and dispatchers, com-

plete lavatory shower facilities,

and garage space. Innovations are

the commodious locker faci 1i ties

provided for all unit personnel,

Pierce County Ranger Roswell C. James recently helped present a demonstration on black turpentine and ips beetle control in his county. The . demonstration

as shown at right by Ranger T. L. Holmes. Below, Holmes demonstrates how the conference space can be divided for separate offices with the built-in accordion wall.

was he l d on the farm of Rufus

Smi th 11 mi 1e s sou th of Bri s to1

and eight miles north of Bl ack-

shear on Route 121,

Tho se on the progrm,, in addi-

t ion to Ran ge r James , includ ed

Pi erce County Agent R. P. Leckie;

Dorsey Oyer, Extension For ester,

GPorgia Extension Service; H. W.

Williams, As s i s tant Distri ct For-

ester in charge of Management,

Waycross [)j strict, Georgia For-

estry Commission, and ll enry G.

Backus, U.S. For es t Service

Naval Stores Conservation Pro-

g ram.

LandownPrs, turpentine produc-

ers, gum farmer s and other per-

sons in Brantley, "arP and Bacon

Counties attend ed .

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Investigators of the Georgia Forestry Commission are participating in an intensified tra1n1ng program in modern crime detection teclmiques designed to increase their effectiveness in every phase of forestry investigative activities.
Training sessions are being held at regular intervals at various Georgia Forestry Commission district headquarters throughout the state. The opening session was held at fum e, and others will follow at Statesboro, Camilla, Amerlcus, Newnan, McRae, Milledgeville, Waycross, Gainesville and Washington.
' 'Today' s t went i e t h- century forestry investigator,'' John R. Gore, Chief Investigator, explained in outlining objectives of the training program, ''must be canpetent not only in detecting and apprehending those who willfully damage Georgia's vast forest land acreage. He must, in addition, be well vf'rsed in court.
procedure. He must have full knowledge of Georgia's forest protection laws, and he must be

PISTOL COURSE - Marksmanship and proper ways to handle pistois are included in the training program set up for the Commission's investigators. The group includes, left to right, John H. Gore, of Macon, Chief Investi~ator; IL M. McCrimmon, of Statesboro; James W. Swinde ll , of Camilla; Clyde Bowden, Americus; W. E. Lee, ~ewnan; Charles Tillman, McRae; IIerman Scoggin, Home; Frmll\ Osborne, Waycross, and Tom Shelton, Washington.

able to show the public that the best way to halt a fire is to prevent its starting.' '
The Chief Investigator empha~i zed that the " 1arge majority' ' of Georgia citizens give whol ehearted cooperat ion to efforts of the Georgia Forestry Commission to protect its $7 50,000,000 a year tree crop from wildfire.
''Much of an investigator's work, however,'' he added, ' 'must necescessarily be centered about those remaining few per sons. Results of fire prevention activities of thousands of conservation minded Georgians can be 1aid waste in a matter of minutes merely by the work of one vicious incendarist.''

Mr. Gore said that each investigator will be g iven a discussion topic at the vaFious district sessions . At the Rome meeting R. M. McCrimnon described forestry 1aw enforcement, James W. Swindell's topic was forest protection 1aws, including Georgia's fire laws, timber theft, and trespass. Clyde Bowden spoke on investigation,
and W. E. Lee sp oke on arrest, search and seizure.
01arles Tillman described the need for cooperation with 1andowners, agencies and other public oficials. II erman Scoggin's talk covered report writing, statements ~nd confessions. Frank
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CRIME DETECTION TRAINING- Fingerprin.Jing is explai ned , photo at left, by Chief Investigator J. R. Gore as Tom Shelton, center, and R. M. McCrimmon, right, look on. Plaster cast made from tire track , photo at right, is shown by Clyde Bowden to J.ames Swirxlell, right, and W. E. Lee, center.

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state area in 1954-'55, an alltime record of this region, planting r'ecords, according to Mr. Mal sberger, show that 50 pulp mills and 31 suppliers of pulpwood from Virginia to Texas exceeded their 1954 record by over one and onehalf million trees.

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Osborne described cnn11nal court procedure. Rules of evidence, collection and preservation of evidence, plaster casts, and fingerprints were outlined by Tom Shelton. Mr. Gore described criminal court procedure.
City Court Solicitor Dan Winn, of Cedartown, addressed the group on Supreme Court Rulings of wildfire cases.
The Rome training session also included instruction on the pistol course. Under 1eadership of Lt. P. C. Peacock, of the Georgia State Patrol, each investigator fired 100 rounds of ammunition.
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This year the Comni ssion is signing up additional dealers to estab1ish cone call ection stations. Persons interested in dealer ships should contact their County Forest Ranger or the Georgia Forestry Commission, State Capitol, Atl anta. Cone pi ckers also are asked to contact their C'..ounty Forest Rangers, who will tell them when to begin picking the various species of cones.
Mr. Darby urged that sufficient cones be gathered during the next few weeks, since more than one million seedlings are planted by Georg ia farmers each season. He suggested that Boy Scouts, FFA and 4-H clubs participate in cone collection activities to obtain extra cash this fall for club acti viti es.

PRIME TREA1ED WOOD PRODUCfStocks of Georgia pine poles are stad{ed for air-seasoning at the Macon plant of the 8>uthem Wood Preserving O>mpany.

Conservation Via Preservation ..

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Wood preservatives ut1l1 zed J.n- sure treated poles ttre used to

eluded creosote and creosote-coal support the framework of the struc-

tar solutions, which were used for ture. Setting the poles in the

90 per cent of the wood treated. ground elimi1ates high cost faun-

Other preservatives include pen- dations and reduces the need for

tachlorophenol, Wolman salts, and large amounts of structural

celcure.

bracing.

More than 98 per cent of the tim-

Plans and specifications can bf

ber treated in Georgia is treated obtained from County Agents, or

by the pressure treating process from the University of Georgia's

in which the timber is placed in Agricultural Engineering Exten-

an ai r tight steel cylinder, pre- stion Srvice. Farm labor used in

servati ve admit ted, and a pre ssure such construction cuts costs from

of 125 to 150 pounds per square one half to two thirds.

inch applied. Treating time and

Farm forester s and wood preser-

pressure are regulated to obtain vation 1eaders are strong in rec-

thorough penetration of the pre- ommending buyers to ask the name

servati ve.

of the treating process and of the

Treating results are measured preservative when buying t r eated

by the depth of the penetration fence posts and other products.

and by the pow1ds of preservative

"Any treating plant," accord-

injected in each cubic foot of ing to Mr. Osborne , "will gladly

wood.

certify as to the n ame of the

Especial! y significant in Geor- preservative, the amount of pre-

gia is the s harply risin g dem and servative injected into eac h

for pressure treated fence po sts. cubic foot of wood, and the speci-

Production of such posts was al- fications whic h apply. ll e re in

mo s t negligible a decad e ago; l ast Georgia this certification s hould

year's output amounted to 528,000 he in accordancP with standards

po s ts.

of the America n \\ood PreservPr s

Inc r eased u se of the pol e -frame Association, Federal government

type of farm buildin g also ha s had s pecifi cat ion s , or the stand ards

a s ignifi cant effect on dem and of the Georgi o Hi ghway Depa r t-

for pre ss nr e treat.Pd wood. PrPs- men t."

Georgia Forestry
September

Ehtered as second class matter at tlte Post Office, Atlanta, Georgia


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