Georgia forestry, Vol. 9, no. 12 (Dec. 1956)

~NI VERSI TY OF GEORGIA
J~N 3 '57
Best Wishes for a Happy Holiday

GEORGIA FORESTRY
Editorial

Forest Fires And You ( From the Tifton Gazette)
In Sweden, a per son caught setting a forest fire goes to ja il not for weeks, but for years. When there is a fire, e verybody turns out to fight it--not just paid foresters, but everybody.
In many parts of Georgia, there is a public apathy which is actually costin& millions of dollars in devastating forest fires.
In a talk recently in Savannah, G.W.E. Nicholson, executive vice president of the Union Bag and Paper Company, put the blame for forest fires directly on the public.
- More than 80 percent of Georgia forest fires are set by incendiaries, lie said. Most of the rest are caused by carelessness. Nat ural causes, such as lightning, are responsible for only about five percent of all forest fires.
Georgi a 's forestry products are valued at about one billion dollar s a year .
' That could be doubled or tripled, Mr. Nicholson said,
"but not unless you do something about the fires."
Northwest Georgia has an excellent record of fire protection and fire fighting. State, county and private organizations work closely to protect our valuable _wpodlands.
But, all of the money spent for woodlands p-otection, for conservation and for investment in plants to use wood ca n be wiped out by a carelessly tossed match or by a far mer unthinking! y burning weeds or brush.

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(From The Bowaters Tree Farmer) Quite a fuss has been kicked up by some outdoor writers who claim fcresters and other tree farmers in the South threat en good hunting by removing worthless, scrub hardwoods to let little pines grow.
Practical hunters and level-headed sportsmen groups remained calm and realistic, however. They realize how heavily hunters derend on farms and other land owned by individuals and companies. Realizing the burden is on the hunter, they are making p:ogress toward improving landowner-hunter relationships.
This is an attitude we applaud and we are sure all tree farmers are proud of the progress which has been made on the matter of improving landowner-sportsmen relationship. It is fortunate the well-meaning but misinformed outdoor writers have not harmed the good relations we all enjoy. Let's hope these seif-appointed "spokesmen for hunters" do not persist In their ettoits to dictate to a 1andowner whether he must grow peas, pasture or pine treesl
Forest fires continue to menace both wildlife and forest resources . Let's not waste any energy on pointless arguments when the forest fire p-oblem, important to all groups, war rants continued vigilance.

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GEORGIA FORESTRY
Decemher, 1956
Published Monthly by the GEORGIA FORESTRY COMJ\IISSIO~,
Box 11 83 l\lacon, Georgia Guyton DeLoach, Director

No. 12

Most outdoor writers are making valuable contributions to the improving _conservation scene by p(o-
moting -good hunting .and never po s t their p-operties. Let's encourage those uninformed few writers to get out and get the facts.

Member s, Board of Commissioners:

J ohn M. McEl r a t h, Cha irman

Sam H. Morgan ............ Savannah

Oscar S. Garrison

.Homer

C. M. J ordan, Jr.. H. 0. Cummings .

Macon .... .......Alamo .. Donalsonville

Georgia F orestry is entered as second class matter at the Post

Office u n de r t he Act of n.ugust 24 , 1912. Member of the Georgia Press Associa tion.

EDITOR

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Jam es C. Turner, Jr.

ASSOCIATE EDITORS STAFF ARTIST

Bill Kellam, Joe Kovach, Jeanette Jackson .. Dan Voss

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DISTRICT OFFICES, GEORGIA FORESTRY COJ\11\IISSION:

DISTRICT !-Route 2,

DI STRICT VI-P. 0. Box 505,

Statesboro

M ill edgeville

DISTRICT li-P. 0. Box 26,

DI STRICT VII-Route 1,

Camilla

Rome

DISTRICT 111-P. 0. Box 169, Americus

DISTRICT VIII- P. 0. Box 1160, Wa ycross

DISTRICT IV-P. 0. Box 333,

DISTRICT IX- P. 0. Box 416,

Newnan

Gainesville

DISTRICT V-P. 0. Box 328, McRae

DISTRICT X-Route 3, Wash ington

The Christmas tree is an important product of Georgia forests. Each year, thousands of the miniature firs find the ir way into Geor g ia homes t o add more glitter
to the yule-time atmosphere . Many Georg ia residents take t o the woods each year to perform the traditional rite of retrieving their own tre e . E xperienced woodsmen select and cut wisely; so does the experienced Christma s tre e cutt e r. Respe c t for the r e 1at i v e s of the shortli\'ed s aplings will do much to insure another Merry C hristma s next year.

DECEMBER, 1956

Georgia Conservation

League Holds Meeting

Productive forests mean more merchantable hardwood and pine y 1e ld s and wildlife, Director Guyton DeLoach of the Georgia Forestry Commi ssion told the Georgia Conservation League Convention at Cordele last month.

DeLoach was one of the fe at ured speakers at the first annual convention of the group, which included a 1 ar ge and elaborate forest exhibit erected by the Commission management department and the Crisp and Dooly County Forestry Units.
The 50-foot wide display consisted of ;:t simulated forest filled with game.
Signs explained good forestry practices and emphasized wildlife conservation. Observers reported that it attracted a great deal of attention from the spectators who thronged the convention hall.
In his address, DeLoach outlined the Commission's role in Georgia conservation.

"Wildlife and woodlands are inseparable," he said. "We in the Commission, as public servants, are proud to do all we can to conserve and encourage both for the eternal pleasure and welfare of our citizens."

DeLoach pointed out the vital role forestry plays annually in the state economy.

GUYTON DELOACH

He listed several areas in which Georgia forestry ranks among the leaders of the nat ion and the South, including pulpwood production, saw timber and allied products.

"Our achievements have been great in the brief span of the Commission's existence," he said, ''but we realize only too well that much remains to be done before we can reap the maximum benefits from our woodlands."

Control of worthless hardwood is one of the major problems facing s tate timber growers, DeLoach emphasized. ''It is a problem which takes money from the landowner as surely as if a burglar entered the pers on's hom e and took it from his billfold."

He stressed that hardwood control does not mean suppressiOn of all

hardwoods--only of those tree s which will never mature enough to become

merchantable.

DeLoach said that

the se "weeds" of our

fore sts have already

choked out over seven

million acres of val u-

able timberland and are

constantly spreading.

He said these 1ow qual-

ity hardwoods need to

be stamped out so that

commercially profit-

able pines can be grown

on this land, which will

not s upport hig h-grade

hardwood.

GOOD FORESTRY IS CONSERVATION

DeLoa ch pledged the full re source s of the C ommi ss ion to the betterment of Georg ia ' s fores ts and wildlife.

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Millions of America ns will deck their halls this Chris tmas with boughs of holly grown by W. M. Van Cise of Albany.
VanCise, who is almost 80 years young, is a former design engineer who has become one of the state's most successful tree farmers.
From his 3,000-acre tree farm near Albany, he produces thousands of pounds of pecans, tung nuts, pineapple pears and holly boughs. Van Cise also grows corn, cattle and hogs. He has 1,400 acres of pecan trees, 200 acres of tung nut trees, 127 acres of holly trees and 20 acres of pineapple pear trees.
Workers started gathering the holly branches late in November a nd finished the job the second week of this month. The branches are packed in Van Cise's own shed, where they ar e dipped into a moistening solution Van Cise developed, are partially dried and are then placed in paraffin-coated boxes for shipping.
The holly trees are planted 10 rows 22 by 25 feet. To prevent dwarfing, they are allowed to grow 10 years bef ere their first pruning. Neighbors help with the holly har vest, easing the burden on the Van Cises and providing themselves with off-sea son employment.
The holly i s sold to co mmi ssion merchants all over the Eastern Seaboard for decorat ive purpo ses.
Mr. a nd Mrs. Van Cise came So uth in 19 19, after he had served as an engineer following his graduation fr om Col umbia University in the early
1900 ' s. He served as manager of a peach and pecan farm, which he soon bough t from his partner s.
Van Cise sells none of hi s trees fo r ti mber. He markets on l y the many prod ucts the trees produce.
Th e t ung nut s produce valuable wood preserving and high grade paint oils. The oil is an essential war product, incidentally.

GEORGIA FORES TR Y

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NEW METHODS IMPROVE TH,fBER MANAGEMENT
Naval Stores Producers Use New Methods
Naval stores working affords an excellent opportunity to supplement a declining farm income practically all year around, according to John W. Cooper , supervi s or of the Naval Stores Conservation Program.
Hundreds of gum farmers and large naval stores producers are getting ready to hang virgin tur}:entine faces with new improved tack-on spiral gutter faces or var n aprons supported with doubleheaded nails. "These methods," Cooper said, "make it pos s ible to mtegrat e g um naval stores with production of saw logs, poles, pulpwood and other wood products without any loss."
He said the integrated method of using improved gutters with bark hack and sulphuric acid offers landowners maximum returns from his timber management. Last year, some 67 per cent of all naval stores cuppage was worked by thi8 new method, he added.
"In addition to saving raw mat er ial fo r s awmills or pulp plants," Co oper explai n~d~ "the~e ne-11 devices incre as e effiCiency m working a s tand because th~y allow face chipping to be done biweekly rat her than once a week as was necessary under the old method.''
T he naval stores ' supervisor also pointed out that research has shown production of gum is increased on an average of 22 per cent Vv ith the new me t hods.

Georgia Timber Growers Pace
South In Woodland Development
Profiting increasingly each year fr om the advice o f th e Fore s t Ma nagemen t Department of the Georgia Forestry Commission, Georgia timber growers continue to make giant strides in the deve lopment of their woodlands.
Georgia Forestry Commission management foresters continue to pace the South in management activities, leading other s tates in the volume of pulpwood marked, in acreage marked for selective cutting and in volume of saw timber marked.
In 1955-56, 25,259,000 board feet and 21,970 acres of saw timber and 21,451 cords of pulpwood were mar ked, Management Chief W.H. McComb said.

Requests for management help have increased 37 per cent since 1954. In 1955-56, 1,123 private landowners were given assistance. Not only are more persons asking aid, but more are applying the practices recommended by the management de pu tment. Four years ago, only 70 ~r cent of the clients followed management's recommendations, McComb said. Now 90 per cent comply.
In fact, requests are now so numerous that a backlog has accumulated, McComb said. This necessitates a waiting period, but their requests are answered as soon as possible and in the order in which they are received.

'The management department is especially pleased," McComb said, !'with the increased number of requests from the les s heavily f aested areas of the stat e. District s three, four, five and s even are asking for more and more visits by field men.
"The increased cutting of saw timber has diminished the stock of uncut mature trees, naturally, over the past 17 years by 5.7 billion board feet. Poor stocking of onefourth of our timberlands is an even

DEFECTIVE TREE MARKED
F CR HARVEST
more troublesome at tritional factor in the saw timber supply," he stated.
However, this decrease will not be permanent, for reforestation and improved fire protection are increasing steadily the number of small pines. They are up 41 per cent in the same period and already provide more pulpwood and p-omise more saw timber as soon as they mature sufficiently.

Another figure reflecting the present preponderance of pulpwoodsize timber is the fact that requests for pulpwood marking exceed those for saw timber.

INCREMENT BORER REVEALS AGE

"Marketing advice is very valuable to the timber owner," McComb said, ''because it helps him take advantage of the best pulp or saw timber markets avai !able. Lists of timber buyers <J,r e available from the
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DECEMBER, 1956
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A good stand of trees is the best insurance policy a farmer can have.

That observation was made recently by the nat ion's top agriculturist. He is Wesley Patrick, 21-year -old winner of this year's national Future Farmers of America Star Farmer award.

The Quitman youth outshone all other FFA members in the nat ion to walk

off with the coveted honor. Competition was based on citizenship and leader-

ship qualities and farm JTOgress made during the entire period contestants have

been members of FFA chapters. Pat rick has been an active member of the

Brooks County FFA Chapter for more than seven years. During that time, he

assumed an active role in community life and has constantly improved his !30-

acre farm at a steady profit-making pace.

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Like most FFA members, the star far mer is familiar with good forestry practices. He attended the annual Southern Pulpwood Conservation Assn. Boys Forestry Camp, sponsored by the Georgia Fprestry Commission, in 1950 at Waycross. He also completed a forestry course at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College at Tifton.

"Although my ambition is to raise purebred Durocs swine on a large scale," he said, "I consider the 30 acres of timberland on my property the most valuable land I have. It's like having a good insurance policy. If any emergency arises, I can meet it by cutting some of the trees." He emphasized, however,

PATRICK CHECKS HIS INTEREST

that he wouldn't cut the trees unless it was the only solution.
"I lear ned a 1ot about forestry at the Boys Forestry Camp and in college," he said. "It's helped me a lot. My 30 acres of loblolly pines are a natural st"and, and it's been given good care for the 20 years the tree s have been gr <-Wing.
''I made my first thinning last October. I got a chance to apply the forestry know-how I got at the camp and school, because I did my

own mar king. The trees are getting bigger and need more room to grow. Besides, I needed some timber to remodel the house and patch up the barn."
Patrick said he marked the trees carefully, making sure he cut only the defective ones so that the trees would have more space in which to gr ON.
"I had some lumber left over and sold it for $218," he said. "So I not only improved the stand, but I fixed up my house and barn and put some money 10 the bank. That' s why I believe a good stand of trees is the best insurance policy a farmer can have."

uable trees to grow better and fast-
er. "
The young farmer said he has been busy gaining national prominence. "A lot of nice people have been out to visit us," he said. "I thought nothing better could happen to me after I was told I had won the award, but ever since then a lot of wonderful things have happened.''
Patrick was given a brand new farm truck by a leading manufacturing firm, and the City of Quitman has declared a special holiday in his honor.
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STAR FARMER POINTS WITH PRIDE

He pointed out that the stand will become more valuable as the trees mature. "It's like having money in the bank," he explained. "The increased growth is like interest. Each year's growth makes the stand worth more. I was just taking carf of my interest when I thinned the s ta'1d to allow the more val-

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DECEMBER, 1956

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BIRD'S EYE-VIEW OF ENCAMPMENT

OP ERATION "DEAD-OUT" NE RVE CENTER

AIR CONDITIONED SLEEPING QUARTERS

Operation 11Dead Out~w Considered Successful Despite Rainr Weather

Rain and near freezing weat her didn't keep' 'Operat ion Dead Out," the stat e-w ide fire c cntrol field exercise, from being a "spirited success," Fire Control Chief H.E. Ruark said.
Over 80 district foresters, their assistants, county rangers and Commission headquarters J?ersonnel participated in the maneuver in early November m Jones County about 13 miles from Macon. They battled a simulated 2,000-acre project fire.
Ruark said the enthusiasm of the men was responsible for the success of the operation, which was the first of its type ever held. "I thought it was one of the best exercises we've ever held," he said.
"The men were anxious to learn more about handling large fires," Ruark said. "They attacked their duties with great enthusiasm and spirit, which I especially appreciated.
"The exercise filled a definite need," he continued. "We were able to test organization plans which will be used on future large fires . The additional training needs and procedures the maneuver revealed we need will be incorporated into the district exercises which we will hold next year , and every year thereafter.
"We will invite fire fighters from industry and other interested groups to tile district exercises to work with Commission personnel. Thus we will be able to co-ordinate all units into smoothly functioning groups which will be familiar with the !at est developments in fire fighting."
Men and equipment from throughout Georgia arrived at the exercise area on Georgia Kraft Co. property on a Wednesday afternoon and set up camp along military lines.
Headquarters trailer with its radio equipment was located on one side of the main dirt road in the area and the motor pool and maintenance section on the other. The

mess trailer, supply, first aid and sleeping tents were set up on a small road beyond the headquarters trailer.
The men slept on cots in the tents, which re sis ted Wednesday night's rain, but turned out to be rat her drafty as the mercury dropped into the 30's the next night.
T.M. Strickland, Richmond County ranger, presided over the mess truck, and he and his crew turned out an abundance of delicious food. Not a single gripe about the chow was heard, which is certainly something of a record for a field maneuver of any type .
The men were up at dawn Thursday to battle the big "blaze. " They moved into the field with their tractors

and jeeps to plow fire breaks. Smoke bombs were set off throughout r.he area to simulate fire break-outs. The men also tackled various first aid, supply and maintenance problems given them by headquarters.
Throughout the day, Commission Pilot Bob Wynens flew fire patrol. He made several landings on nearby paved highways, with the assistance of the Commission investigators, who stopped traffic.
The highlight of the afternoon, following lunch served in the field, was a shift of all men and equi pnent to bat tie a break-out some distance from the morning's fire.
With the "fire" extinguished, the men returned to camp to find that al err co-operation between Pilot Wynens and Investigators Robert Gore and Charles Tillman had resulted in the capture of a person suspected of setting the afternoon fire.

GORE NABS "FffiEBUG"
heavy guard and interrogated before the entire group by Gore. Apparently long used to police methods because of steady association with them , the tobacco-chewing suspeer wouldn't talk--much to the amusement of the firefighters-even though enough evidence to c en viet 10 men was found on him and he had been seen at the fire.
Quite a few persons later remarked that the suspect bore a remarkable resemblance to Dr. L.A. Hargreaves, Jr. , assistant Commission director.
Ruark was in charge of the operation, aided by his assistants, Cur tis Barnes and Turner "Red" Barber, Jr. W.C. ''Cash" Harper of Statesboro was fire boss.
Other "bosses" included Hugh Allen, Camilla, service; Frank Craven, Rome, lines; and Olin Witherington, Americus, plans. James Turner, Jr., chief of Information and Education, a fire control veteran himself, served as chief umpire. He was assisted by various key Commission pers cnnel.
The exercise ended Friday, after the cold weather caused an ear I y morning break-up of camp. The men hustled into the warm Macon warehouse where an exhaustive critique was conducted. All the umpires reported and then a general discussion of the exercise wound up "Operation Dead Out."

GEORGIA F ORES T RY 7

King-Size Loblolly Pines Found In Walker County Creelc Bottom

North Georgia goes in for f crestry in a big way. Other section s of the state may have more trees, but the highland area makes up for it in size.
Scattered throughout the steep mountain slopes are many giant trees. In Walker County, for instance, there are some whoppers. Standing o n a creek bottom owned by W.H. White and his son, Bill, are a cluster of loblolly pines that tower more than 120 feet high.

Judged by Asst. Dist. Forester Floyd Hubbard to be more than 90 years old, the king-size conifers have an average yield of about seven sawlogs apiece.

"I measured them on a commercial scale," Hubbard said, "so they real-

ly might yield a 1 ittle more." He emphasized, however, that there are a

lot of similar size trees in that area.

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The "grandaddy" tree on the White property

measured 129 feet tall

and was 31 inches in

diameter. Standing next

to it is what could be

considered the "grand-

maw," which is a 1ittle

shorter--only 124 feet--

but is the plumper with a

waistline measuring 33.2

inches across. Some

eight other offspring,

surrounding the parent

trees stand nearly 120

feet tall.

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Although the trees'

origin dat es back to the

close ci the War Between

the States, their days are

numbered. The elder

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White says come Jan. 1, 195 7, they will be chop-

ped down. "They're get-

ting too big," he said,

"and, besides, we need

a 1ot of 1umber to fix up

11 the house and barn."

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grees the trees should be

t harvested.

''They've

'~: grown about as much as

they're going to," he

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~ Jretty l1mby at the tops,

" ... and, anyway, large trees

RANGE R J. B. WHITE, E. H. WHITE AND A

like these are very sus-

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ceptible to insect and disease attacks. They also

at tract lightning.''

Hubbard said the exact age of the g iant trees can't be determined until

they are cut. ''They're too big aro und to get a sat is factory count with an mcre~e nt bore.," he explained, "so we just took a sample boring, counted

the ung s a nd f1gured out a n average us ing the tree's diameter." He figures h(; 90-year estima t e may be a 1 ittle s hort .

1l't' 1anagement expert e stimates when the trees are cut they will yield ab rut seven 16-foot logs each.

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E . L. DEM~ION
Demmon Retires After 3 2 Years In Forest Work
Joseph F. Pechanec, former U.S. Forest Service chief of range management research, has succeeded E.L. Demmon as director of the Southeastern Forest Experiment Stat ion. Demmon retired October 29 after 32 years in the forest service.
Prior to his appointment in 1951 as head of the Asheville stat ion, Demmon served as director at the Lake States Experiment Stat ion at St. Paul, Minn., and at the Southern Forest Experiment St a t ion at New Orleans.
A na t ive of Kendallvi ll e, Ind . , he rece i ved his AB and MS for es tr y degrees from the Un iver sit y of Michigan in 1914 and 19 16 resrectively. After graduation, he served for a number of years overseas as forester for several nat ional corporations. He joined the Forest Service in 1925 as a research worker a t the Ne w Orleans experiment s tat ion.
Pecbanec bas been with the Forest Service since 1933. He received his BS degree in forestry in 1932 from the University of Idaho. Until 1945, when he was made chief of range resear ch, he headed the Forest Service's livestock and big game range re;;;earch work. He also was one of the founders and first presi-
dent of the American Society oi
Range Management.

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Edito r's Note: Thi s is the third in a series of nine a rtie} es which wi 11 appear in the GEORGIA FORESTRY during the Georg e Foster Peabody For es try School Golden Anniversary Celebration. Each installment will be a brief biography of a Forestry School graduate. Purpose of the series is to give a crosssection of the alumni and to renew old acquaintances.
C.R. Mordecai, Jr., superintendent of Union Bag-Camp Paper Corp. Woodlands Div. Conservation Dept., has assumed a prominent position in Georgia forestry since his graduation from the George Foster Peabody School of Forestry in 1951.
Born in Savannah ] an. 9, 1924, Mordecai at tended public schools there and in Charleston, S.C. Prior to his entry into the Army Air Force, where he served three years as a B-17 pilot in the European Theatre, he at tended Clemson College for a year and a hal f.
After his discharge from the service, he set up a pole and piling
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C. R. Mordecai business in South Carolina. Four years later, he entered the University of Georgia School of Forestry.
When Mordecai graduated in 1951 with a B.S. degree in forestry, he was the only forestry student ever to be valedictorian of a graduating class.
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4-H WINNERS--Walter Stephens, Tift C~unty, and Emily Brown, Emanuel County, are congratulated on winning state 4-H Club forestry honors by ';in official of the Southern Bell and Telegraph Co., sponsor of the 4-Hdemonstr at 100 program. Walter went on to win national honors in the project at the national
4-H Congress in Chicago.

Tift County 4-Her Wins National Forestry Title

A Georgia boy who has planted 45,300 pine seedlings in six years was
recently declared national 4-H Club forestry champion for 1956. He is 16year -old Walter Stephens, son of Mr. and Mrs. ] .L. S~ephens of Tifton.

He is the second national winner of the year from the little Willing Workers 4-H Club of Tift County. Anthony Tanner was named champion in tractor maintenance.
Although Walter has completed 36 projects in six years of 4-H work, forestry was the first one he chose. "I selected it," he said, "because 80 percent of our 2,200 acres is 10 forest woodland and little acreage 1s devoted to row crops."
In 1950, the national winning forestry project started wher young Stephens set our 4,000 seedlings in an abandoned two and one-half acre broom sedge field formerly used for cotton. Only 19 of the trees died- for an almost "unheard of" survival percentage.
The 4-H boy spent much of his time the next year riding over the Stephens farm with h~s father as Mr. Stephens checked the cutting of old trees that had been worked for naval stores. Out of this experience Walter

got a 1ot of good ideas for 4-H demon strat ions on the proper selection of trees for harvesting.
In 1951, l:y working with his county agent., William Pool of the Agr icultural Extension Service, Walter started making educational use of his seedling-planting ability. He worked up a demonstration showing how to set out seedlings and gave it first before members of his community club.
After that, Walter's honors began to pour in. He was Tift County junior forestry winner in 1952, Southcentral district junior champion in '53, third place senior area winner in '55 and the state's best 4-H forester in '56. And now he has boosted Georgia' s claim as the top forestry state in the nat ion by representing more than 2,000,000 4-H members as national champion.
The forestry champ is already real izing an income from trees. Last year he worked 300 larger trees on the
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Rangers In

The News
Arthur A. Grumbine, assistant supervisor of Georgia's Chattahoochee National Forest in Gainesville, Ga., has been promoted to supervisor of the Alabama Nat i anal Forests with headquarters in Montgomery, Ala.

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Except for two periods of military duty, totaling nearly four and onehalf years, the new Alabama supervisor has spent his entire professional career in the Southern Region of the U.S. Forest Service since graduation from North Carolina State University
in 1932.
Grumbine, a nat 1ve of Lebanon, Pa., joined the Forest Service in
1933 as a junior forester on the Nan-
tahala National Forest, serving in that capacity and later as a management assistant on the Oua chita, Florida, Chattahoochee and Cherokee forests until he entered the Army
in 1942. Between that. tour of military duty and a later one in 1951-52, he
was assigned to the Atlanta regional office as a staff s recialist in two divisions--state and private forestry, and timber, range and wildlife management--and spent 28 months as assistant supervisor of the Pisgah National Forest.

WHERE 'S SANTA "?-The Bibb County Forestry Unit joins Smokey In wishing everyone a very merry C hri stmas as described in the above float.

Wilkinson County Forest Ranger Hubert D. Billue has been promoted to District Ranger of the Sixth District with headquarters in Milledg eville.
Billue first became associated
with the Forestry Unit in 1947, but re signed for two yea rs. In 1954, he
returned as Forest Ranger of Wilkinson County.
Ranger Elza Clifton of Jenkin s County Forestry Uni t was promoted to the Statesboro District Office. He assumed the position of District Ranger in Forest Management in early November.
John P. Richey of Claxton has been recommended by the Oi strict

Office to fill the vacancy and has been confirmed by the local Forestry Board. He has had three years active service in forestry work prior to thi s promotion.
Clarence Hilburn of Newton was recently named County Forest Ranger in Cook County. He succeeds Hobart Fykes , who resigned to accept a position with the Adel Post Office.
Since Hilburn's discharge from the Air Force, he has been in training with the forestry department.
Forest rangers of the Third District discussed information and education programs and media at a meeting in Americus recently.

Rangers were briefed on use of motion picture, s lide and selectroslide projectors as means of visual education to inform landowners and students the proper way to manage woodlands. Also discussed were use of forestry exhibits at fairs, window displays, radio and TVprograms and newspapers. Great est emphasis was placed on newspapers as a media of informing th e public.

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. C O MMLSSION VISIT ORS-~h~ reforesta t ion clas s of the University of Georgi a :ore s t r y School rece_ndy V!Slte~ t he ne w Co mmission headquarters. Pictured

above are, (l eft to rtg ht), Be nnie Fulc he r, V erla Smith N J). Striplin Oscar

I,Jwler, Jame<; Greene, Gene Jo nes, Bill B la c kled ge Steve Crawford ' Arthur Palmer, D~ck Jones, Hi ll ~ lillians, Alfr e d Fos te r, Joe A s tin Fred Atc hi son and

Mcrv 1n Re 1ne s.

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Literature avaih1ble through the Georgia Forestry Commission from U.S. Forestry Service and wood-using firms was also discussed.

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Timber Growers

The eig,..hth in ~ .s~ries of educat ~onal picture boo~lets published by the Southern Kraft Div1s10n of lnternat tonal Paper Co. 1s now ready for distribution to Georgia schools.

Entitled "How Trees Put the Rain to Work," the colorful "comic book" is designed to simulate student interest in good forestry practices. Directed toward the sixth, seventh and eighth grade levels, the booklet also has appeal for the students' parents and friends. It tells the story of the important role trees play in soil and water conservat 1on in simple narrative form.

In issuing the booklet, the lntc::rnat ional Paper Co. explained that the pulp and paper industry is conscious of the burden on timber :esources and for years has practiced the principals of scientific forest management. Since the great majority of timberland in the South is owned by small landowners, .it said, the comrany's efforts are directed toward educating the small landholder in scientific forestry practices. The series of booklets is only a part of an extended program directed toward that end.
Teachers and principals may obt am a free supply together with a "Suggestions for Teachers" pamphlet by mailing their requests to the International Paper Co., Mobile, Ala.
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Did You Know That . . .

4-H Winner.
(Continued from Page 8) farm for naval stores, and added another 100 trees to this operation this year. Working with Mr. Pool and Ex tension Service Forester Dorsey Dyer, Walter is using acid stimulation on his trees as a result demonstration of modern gum production rractice.
Walter was honored last month ~t the 35th National 4-H Congress, held in Chicago, where he and 31 other Georgians were delegates. The forestry champ received a $300 college scholar ship, sponsored by the American Forest Products Industries , Inc.
UJ.D4ed,l'Uf Alum.

(Continued from Page 3) Commission, McComb pointed out. Thi~ list is not only given to all clients, but is available to anyone."
Management, to provide the best guidance possible for Georgians, is constantly adding new services. Forest utili zation specialists are now studying defects caused in lumber by different methods of stacking at saw mills and warehouses.
. ~his study is al ready yielding d1V1~ends, for a few stacking sugg~stwns to a warehouse ope rat or eliminated the blue stain which was attacking the lumber and causing a loss of $40 per 1,000 board feet.
Management also contracts on a limited acreage basis to control undesirable trees by chemical or mechanical means or by both methods. The elimination of these unmerchantable trees releases fast growing pines for growth on areas that are best suited for pine products.
Aerial photographs of 62 counties are now available for the use of landowners. The various district offices know which counties are mapped. The maps save many miles of tramping through forests and driving down bumpy trails, for they show timber densitv, enable one to plot boundary line~, to take inventory, to determine acreage and many other such uses.

Sap does not r1se 10 the spring?

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Sapwood usually contains more moisture than heartwood?
Butt logs ordinarily contain more moisture than top logs ?

played by Union Bag-Camp Paper Corp. as conservation forester, field representative and s uperintendent of the Conservation Dept., the position which he now holds.

Moisture content of green wood var 1es very little during the year?

Mordecai

of the

Both species and location influence the amount of moisture in a 1iv-
ing tree?

DISPLAYED FACTS--Above ex hi bit shows the hardwood control story. (See story on page 2)

Georgia Forestry
December, 1956
THE WOOD IN YOUR LIFE
Cutting your own Christmas tree is a thrill. Because trees grow, well-managed for
ests will always provide evergreens for Christmas and plenty of wood for lumber, paper and other uses.
Timber is a crop!

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