Georgia forest lookout [Nov. 1931]

Volume 1

ATLANTA, GA. , NOVEMBER, 1931

Number 11

ANNUAL SESSION

J. F. Hart, Pioneer Georgia Forestry GEORGIA'S TIMBER

STATE FORESTERS J. F. Hart, better known as "Jack" Hart,

RESOURCES ESTIMATED

of Dublin, Georgia, was among those who

Program Will Be Conducted Novem- first actively espoused the cause of for- Largest Timbered Area of Any State

ber 16-19 at Various Georgia and Florida as

Points in Foresters

estry in Georgia and helped to form the Georgia Forestry Association. Mr. Hart is a graduate of the University of Geor-

-Wide Variety of Trees With Pines Providing Chief Forest In-

Conduct Tour of Inspection.

gia and was formerly a member of the come.

faculty of the Georgia State College o.f

With the Georgia Forest Service and Agriculture, but for many years he has A recent estimate of timber resources

the Florida Forest Service as hosts, the been a leading county agent with head- of Georgia has been made, which accord-

state foresters of the United States will quarters at Dublin, near which city he ing to the Georgia Forest Service, is only

hold their twelfth annual meeting Novem- owns a farm.

an approximation and not an absolute fig-

ber 16-19 with itinerant sessions begin- Mr. Hart's ability, culture, earnestness, ure.

ning at Savannah, Georgia and concluding enthusiasm, associated with the qualities The original forest area of the state,

at Jacksonville, Florida.

of a southern gentleman, make him a con- according to the estimate, was 36,480,000

Last year the state foresters m et on the structive influence for good. Laurens acres, with the present commercial forest

Pacific coast. This year it is held in the county is justly proud of him and the area at 22,872,000 acres, of which 1,150,-

southern pine belt where naval stores are forestry interests of Georgia are pleased 000 acres are old timber, 20,143,000 acres

among the forest products.

to count him among those who have la- as second-growth and 1,579,000 as forest

Program at Savannah

bored in their behalf. It is with pleasure land not restocking.

The session will begin with a breakfast that he is placed in the gallery of forestry The report classified the forests of Geor-

program at Savannah where the Georgia pioneers of Georgia.

gia into five general types, according to

State Board of Forestry will be host and

mixtures of tree species, as follows: Oak-

John Wilson, Secretary of State, will pre-

chestnut-yellow poplar; oak-pine; short

side as the delegates hear . welcome ad-

leaf-loblolly pines-hardwoods; longleaf-

dresses from Governor Richard B. Russell,

slash pines; riverbottom hardwoods-cy-

Jr., for the state; Judge Gordon Saussey

press.

for Savannah and T. G. Woolford for

The longleaf-slash pine type is the larg-

the Georgia Forestry Association. After

est with 10,815,000 acres and the short-

a response by E. 0. Siecke, -state forester

leaf-loblolly pines-hardwood type is sec-

of Texas, and president of the Association

ond with 8,178,000 acres; oak-pine 2,069,-

of State Foresters, the party will board

000 acres; riverbottom hardwood-cypress

buses, visit interesting and historic spots ~ Savannah and start .on a forest inspec-

1,200,000 acres and oak-che tnut-yellow poplar 610,000 acres.

tion trip of two states.

Total present sawtimber area is esti-

A brief visit will be made at the Bam-

mated at 6,900,000 acres, cordwood pro-

boo Experiment Station of the United

duction area 7,566,000 acres; area re-

State Department of Agriculture near Sa-

stocking 6,827,000 acres and non-restock-

vannah, and a short stop will be made at

ing area 1,579,000 acres. The largest

Old Midway church and note will be made

available sawtimber is reported for the

there of the wooden grave marker dated

shortleaf-loblolly pines-hardwood type

1770-still sound-also the magnifi-

amounting to 11,695,000,000 board feet;

cent specimen of a moss-draped live oak.

longleaf-slash second with 4, 743,000,000

At Brunswick a study will be made of

board feet; riverbottoms third with 2,280,-

Wood utilization a s demonstrated by the
~ercules Powder Company plant where

000,000 board feet; oak-pine 1,520,000,000 board feet and oak-chestnut-yellow

Plne stumps are being converted into tur(Continued on page 2, column 1)

J. F . HART, DUBLIN, PIONEER IN GEORGIA FORESTRY

poplar 632,000,000 board feet. In this esti(Continued on page 2, column 3)

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GEORGIA FOREST LOOKOUT

GEORGIA FOREST LOOKOUT tors Pertaining to Federal Cooperative (Continued from page 1, column 3) Projects", discussed by Fred Morrell, chief mate of available sawtimber, 14,817,000,.

Published Monthly By

of Public Relations of the United States 000 board feet are placed as softwood and

GEORGIA FOREST SERVICE

Forest Service, and A. B. Hastings, assist- 6,053,000,000 board feet as hardwood.

State Capitol

Atlanta, Ga. ant chief.

The rank of forest type and amount of

C. A. Whittle, Editor

Starting at 9 o'clock the party will available cordwood in each are reported

Staff of the Georgia Forest Service move by bus and automobiles westward, as follows: shortleaf-loblolly pines-hardB. M. Lufburrow, State Forester......Atlanta observing the Osceola national forest, the wood forests 36,792,000 cords; longleaf. C. A. Whittle, Director of Education and Olustee fire tower and battleground and slash 34,065,000 cords; oak-pine 8,016,.
Utilization .................................... Atlanta the new experimental laboratory of the 000 cords; riverbottoms 7,200,000 cords;

Everett B. Stone, Jr., Assistant State United States Bureau of Chemistry and oak-chestnut-yellow p o p 1a r 1,080,000 Forester ................................ Gainesville Soils, established for research in naval cords.

H. M. Sebring, Asst. State Forester,

stores production.

The total estimated yields of softwood

--Macon Four miles east of Lake City at a tur- are 66,732,000 cords and of hardwoods

C. Bernard Beale, District Forester, .............................................. Waycross
W. D. Young, District Forester............Rome
Jack Thurmond, District Forester,

pentine still, brief talks will be made by E. L. Demmon, George P. Shingler and H. L. Baker. The still, in operation, will be explained by Messrs. McCloskey and

20,421,000 cords. If sawtimber is included as available cordwoods, the total available would be 128,107,000 cords. In eith~ er case, it is apparent that Georgia has a

--- Savannah Charles N. Elliott, Assistant Director of

Gregory.

large supply available of pulpwood.

Education .................................... Atlanta A visit will be made to the state forest

H. D. Story, Jr., District Forester,

nursery at Raiford and a stop will be made Southern Appalachian Region Offers

................................................ Albany at Starke where a branch of the Southern

W. G. Wallace, District Forester,

Forest Experiment Station is located.

Big Field in Forestry

............................................ Columbus Lenthall Wyman will explain the work in

Mrs. Nellie Nix Edwards, Secretary to the naval stores research carried on there.

Farms, mills, and industries of the

State Forester --Atlanta Between Starke and Ocala, a demon- southern Appalachian region should always

Mrs. R. S. Thompson, Secretary to Direc- stration in firebreak construction and fire be able to get plenty of timber from local tor of Education and Utilization, Atlanta fighting will be given by the Florida For- forests, but it will require the practice of

est Service.

good forestry to keep this region continu-:

Session State Foresters-Cont'd

Ocala Program

ously self-supporting in timber, says the:

pentine, rosin, pine oil and packing fiber. At Ocala a business program will be Forest Service. This, in turn, will require

The plant of the Georgia Creosoting Com- conducted, consisting of reports of com- the general cooperation of owners of for

pany will be inspected to observe wood mittees and election of officers.

est lands. Only about 3 percent of the

preservation practices. Historic trees like After the business meeting the party potential forest area of 60,000,000 acres

the Wesley oak and Lanier oak and his- will visit the famous Silver Springs and in the southern Appalachian region is in

toric places will be seen.

view its aquatic wonders through glass national forests. Virgin stands probably

In the late afternoon the party will bottom boats. The party will then travel aggregate less than 2,000,000 acres, and

reach Waycross where the program will through Florida's citrus belt eastward to much of the remaining forest land has

be resumed at night.

Daytona, to view the famous beach where been culled repeatedly and burned over.

Program at Waycross

world auto speed records have been made. The large sawmills of the past are being

President Siecke will deliver the annual The next stop will be St. Augustine, the superseded by the small portable mill in

address. Paul Chapman, director of vo- oldest city in the United States. After this region, and the present tendency of

<;ational education in Georgia, will tell of an inspection of historic scenes, the for- the small mill is to strip the woods of ev-

the forestry work with rural vocational esters will reach Jacksonville, and that erything. This practice must stop, and

schools in Georgia. "Forestry in Hawaii" ends the 12th annual session.

will be the subject of a talk by C. S. Judd,

. chief forester of Hawaii. Fred B. Mer.rill, state forester of Mississippi, will talk on forest fire and its relation to longleaf pine reproduction, and E. L. Demmon, director of the Southern Forest Experiment Station, New Orleans, will lead in the discussion.
Starting early on November 17, the foresters will visit Cogdell and the Timber Products Company, a large private operation. A steam turpentine still, fire tower and results of fire protection on growth

THE SENTINEL PINE
My roots feed deep in rocks; I resist the tempest's shocks; Full strength I freely give To bless my time and live And yield the world my very bestIf only man, a friend, Would help attain that end, Keep fire and axe away, Help us in every wayNot treat us as a pest.

of young trees, will be observed. In the afternoon the party will arrive
at Fargo, field headquarters of the Superior Pine Products Company, with holdings of 225,000 acres and where Captain I. F. Eldredge, forester, is directing a program of scientific reforestation, forest management, fire protection and utiliza-
tion. Program at Jacksonville
On to Jacksonville at night. A night

Oh, why will man not learn The years it takes for our return? When fire brings dearth to earth, Sparing no trees at birth-
Is man without concern? Why destroy us-and himself, Beauty, wealth, soil and health? See that stub-all that's left Of my princely brother's heftWhy will man never learn?

.the landowner and the small-mill owner must join in the practice of better for estry, gradually putting timber on a reg ular crop basis, otherwise the potentially valuable mixed hardwood, pine, and spruce forests of the region will revert to brush and insolvency.
Approximately 30 percent of the southern Appalachian hardwoods are suitable for paper pulp. Systematic use of many forest trees and products by a combination of lumber, pulp, and other forest products operations will aid in harvesting the timber crop without depletion of the reservoir of growing stock.
Forestry Exhibit at Columbus Fair
A forestry exhibit was displayed at the Chattahoochee Valley Exposition held at Columbus, Georgia, on October 12-17. District Forester W. G. Wallace, Colum bus, arranged the exhibit material which consisted of panels illustrating the work of the Georgia Forest Service and exhibits featuring the importance of fire protec

session will be held at the Washington ho-

-By W. T. Carden, Tax Receiver, tion, reforestation and forest manage

tel. The topic for discussion will be "Fac-

Floyd County. ment.

GEORGIA FOREST LOOKOUT

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trolman, amounted to 5.5 cents per acre,

DISTRICT ONE W. D. Young, District Forester,
Rome, Georgia

but due to conditions it was decided to call for assessments of only 2 cents at this time.
One hundred cloth fire signs will be

SEVENTH DISTRICT C. Bernard Beale, District Forester,
Waycross, Georgia

bought by the organization and put up

A new demonstration forest will be es- around the boundary of all the protected Kinderiou and Big Bend T. P. O.'s

tablished at Blackwell Consolidated School land calling the attention of the public to

Formed

near Marietta in Cobb county. Mr. W. the fact that the land behind the signs is Two additional T. P. O.'s have been

.M. Putney the vocational teacher who under protection and what the results are formed in the seventh district. The Big

comes to this school this year, is very en- expected to be.

Bend T. P. 0. in the "Bend" region of

thusiastic over the prospects of a good All members were enthusiastic and very Charlton county, embracing 35,000 acres

school forest project.

much pleased with the showing made by was formed the latter part of September

the organization. The addition of many with the following officers:

Rome Radio and Forestry
The officials of the Rome radio station, WFDV, have stated that they would be

new members and the feeling that the work is showing results, are encouraging the organization to go forward.

L. Knabb, president and W. kins, secretary-treasurer.
The plans include employment

C. of

Hopa pa-

be glad to have the district forester give

trolman and construction of fire breaks.

a series of talks on forestry and fire pre-

Vocational Schools Visited

The Kinderlou T. P. 0., embracing 17,-

vention over the radio this fall, one of which talks has already been put on the
air. ---
New T. P. 0. Equipment

Demonstrations in Fire Protection, Tree Identification, Estimating Standing Timber and Seed Collection were given by the District Forester this fall at the following schools: Brooklet, Emanuel County

500 acres in western Lowndes county was formed October 8. The officers are:
W. H. Cotter, president; Jerry McCree, vice-president; W. T. Paine, secretarytreasurer.
The plans call for employing one pa-

New fire tool equipment is being ac- Institute, Adrian, Soperton, Vidalia Cen- trolman beginning November 1 and fire-

quired by the various T. P. O.'s in Dis- ter Consolidated, Lyons and Marvin Yan- breaks to be constructed on some of the

trict 1 this fall in preparation for the cey.

area. All of the area will be posted with

coming fire season. Two of the organiza- Interest is running high among the stu- special fire posters.

tions contemplate equipping trucks with dents and every school is working hard

water tanks and other equipment for use to get lots of work done so that they

in fire suppression.

will have a chance at the prize next year.

New Officers Gaskins T. P. 0.

Every school has collected cones from The Gaskins T. P. 0. in Berrien county

SIXTH DISTRICT Jack Thurmond, District Forester,
Savannah
Liberty County T. P. 0. Holds Meeting

which to extract their own seed so that recently elected new officers as follows:

they can plant seed beds this coming J. L. Hughes, president; J. G. Ford, vice-

spring.

president; J. Henry Gaskins, secretary-

treasurer.

Long County T. P. 0. Holds Meeting About 2,000 additional acres have been

added to the unit's area. A meeting of the Long T. P. 0. was

held on October 2nd, at 8 P. M. in the
ICounty Court House in Ludowici, Ga. Brantley T. P. 0. Gets Ready for Fire

~he Secretary-Treasurer of the Liberty Those present included Mr. T. L. Howard,

Season

County T. P. 0. called a meeting of all President, Mr. Jim Parker, Secretary- At a metting of the Brantley T. P. 0 .

.members and timber-land owners for Treasurer, Mr. Clyde Chapman, Vice at Nahunta, October 10, new officers were

.:,rhursday October 1, 1931, at 8 P. M. President, Mr. C. A. Nobles, Mr. C. A. elected for the coming year as follows:

'those present included Mr. R. L. Rahn, Sallette, Mr. Henry Parker, Mr. Harry J. T. Adams, president; W. S. Courson,
.lfr. J. B. Frasier, Mr. H. L. Stacey, Mr. Parker and Mr. Gordon Nessmith the lo- vice-president; J. R. James, secretary-

:lobert Irvin and the local District For- cal vocational teacher. Plans were per- treasurer. -.~er. The election of new officers was fected to begin work on October 15th. It was decided to assess 2 cents an acre

the first business to be taken up. Mr. J. The secretary-treasurer has the authority for employing three patrolmen beginning

)3. Frasier of the Frasier Lumber Com- to hire the patrolman and supervise the probably December 1.

,Pany was re-elected President of the or- work. As this is the first year the Long All landowners attending the meet~pnization. Mr. Robert Irvin of the Sa- county T. P. 0. has existed interest is ing stated that their cattle were

:yAnnah River Lumber Company was elect- keen and the landowners are very anxious in fine shape as a result of keep-

.~ Vice-President, succeeding Mr. R. L. to make a good showing.

ing the woods rough last year. Several

.ltahn and Mr. W. I. Stafford was re-elect'ed Secretary-Treasurer and Patrolman.

Farm Forestry Pays

members plan to begin work on firebreaks at an early date.

It was decided to try fire-break con- One-third of all farms in the United .Btruction work this year with two-horse States yield as much as $220 worth of ~ing plows and also to try out a Ford- timber per year, the United States Depart-

Ray City Wants T. P. 0.
At a get-together meeting at Ray City

f!On tractor with a side plow in getting ment of Agriculture says. An exhibit from arranged by Vocational Teacher W. B.

,fUrrows plowed preparatory to burning the Forest Service shows that the annual Bates and County Agent D. L. Branyon,

out the strip. Actual work on firebreak farm forest crop is worth $395,000,000. held October 9, all who attended voiced

-~onstruction was ordered to begin on Oc- Timber not only pays in dollars and cents, their enthusiastic approval of a plan to

.tober 15.

but it is like a bank account upon which have a timber protective organization in

The Secretary-Treasurer was instruct- the owner can draw in times of stress. Its that section. ~ to make out notices for assessments uses range from farm buildings, telephone It was decided to hold another meeting ~e and mail them out immediately. The poles, repairs, and fuel on the farm, to October 29 at which time a timber pro-
~dgeted cost for protection, including all saw logs, cross-ties, pulpwood, posts, and tective organization will probably be form-

ire-breaks, equipment, and salary for Pa- poles.

ed.

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GEORGIA FOREST LOOKOUT

NEW PUBLICATIONS

FOREST FIRES IN THE FALL

TREE-A-MONTH GEORGIA FOREST SERVICE on account of the long dry spell, con-

New publications just issued by the ditions in the forest have been favorable Georgia Forest Service include a leaflet for disastrous fires. A few fires have entitled "Loblolly Pine Production" by W. broken out and the damage in some inD. Young, district forester; leaflet "Forest stances has been very severe. Warnings Resources of Georgia" by C. A. Whittle, were sent out by the Georgia Forest Serdirector of education and utilization, and vice through the press of the state calling a bulletin "Planting Longleaf and Slash attention to the combustible nature of Pines" by H. M. Sebring, assistant state the forest due to the drouth and caution-

White Oak
by
C. N. ELLIOTT

forester ester.

and

Jack

Thurmond,

district

for-

ing against fire. On a 700 mile

trip

made

through

south

Our once extensive forests of hardwood have all but disappeared

virgin under

A leaflet issued in October and uted in south Georgia prepared

distrib-
by c.

Georgia by State Forester B. M. Lufburrow in late October, no forest fires were

the axe of the woodsman. able timber trees grew in

Massive, valuthese forests,

Bernard Beale district forester is en- seen and evidence of only one fire having trees that were used in the building of

titled "Keep the Woods in the Rough".

recently occurred was noted. It is gratifying to the state forester to note this

an

empire.

Prominent among them was

These publications contain useful and evidence of an awakening of the public the white oak with wood so valuable com-

timely information and are sent free on to the necessity of protecting the forests mercially that we should not allow its

request to citizens of Georgia.

of the state. South Georgians have been notified thru

place cies.

to

be

taken

by

less

important

spe-

MODEL SCHOOL FOREST

the press of the fact that there is a good This tree grows all through the state and

O TH COUNTY EXHIBIT crop of longleaf pine mast this ~ear which

W R

occurs only every three to SIX years.

under almost every condition. It grows in low, swampy land, on dry lands, poor

At the Worth county fair held October Burning the woods, the public was re-

7, 8 and 9 at Sylvester, a model school minded, would injure the seed and pre-

forest was exhibited. District Forester vent the natural reforestation these seed

H. D. Story, Jr., George I. Martin, voca- are capable of bringing about.

tiona! teacher at Sylvester, and M. D. Mobley, Tifton, district supervisor of agricultural schools, cooperated in putting

Herty Prizes

on the exhibit.

Dr. Charles H. Herty has offered a prize

A miniature forest surrounded by wire of $100 to the rural vocational school do-

fence contained plots demonstrating thin- ing the best work in forestry, $50 to the

ning, burned and unburned plots, tree student making the best record and $25

planting, trees of proper turpentining size, to the student making the second best

selective cutting, utilization of thinnings, record in forestry.

firebreak construction and seedbed for A committee consisting of President T.

growing tree seedlings.

G. Woolford of the Georgia Forestry As-

Every part of the exhibit was labeled sociation, B. M. Lufburrow, state forester,

80 that the messages which the exhibit in- and Paul Chapman, state director of votended to convey were clear. As a re- cational education, recently met and agreed
suit, the exhibit attracted much interest upon the basis of award which consists of

LEAYES OF WHITE OAK

and favorable comment.
Forest Protection Effective

50 percent for examinations of students or rich lands and on high, rocky hillsides, in forestry, 30 percent for work on school being no larger than a shrub at altitudes forests and 20 percent on students' home of over 4,000 feet on the mountains in forestry projects. The student awards will the northern part of the state. It thrives

Forest fires in the United States last be on the basis of 50 percent for exami- best in fertile soils under cool, moist con-

year swept over a total of more than 52 nation, 30 percent for home forestry proj- ditions, attaining sometimes a height of

million acres-an area greater than the ect and 20 percent on general scholarship. over 100 feet with diameter of five or

States of Ohio and Indiana combined-ac-

more feet. In the open its trunk is short

cording to the annual summary of fire



with its massive branches sometimes form-

statistics made public today by the For- Order Seedlings From State Nursery ing a crown over 100 feet in diameter. In

est Service, United States Department of Those who contemplate planting pines the forest the trunk is tall and straight.

Agriculture.

in the later winter or early spring and with limbs more constricted.

Organized protection strikingly proved intend to get planting stock from the The white oak may be recognized by

its effectiveness in keeping down forest State Tree Nursery at Athens should its loose, scaly, light-colored bark and by

fire losses, according to the Forest Service place their orders immediately. The nur- its slender, tough, grayish twigs. It has.

figures. For every acre of protected land sery has only slash and longleaf pine left smooth, lobed leaves with light-green up-

burned over, approximately eight acres of for sale. These are offered at $2.50 per per surface and whitish lower surface..

unprotected land were swept by fire, al- thousand which is the cost of growing The leaves have rounded lobes, 5 to 9'

though only one-third of the forest land them.

in number with deep sinuses between.

of the country is now without some form The State Tree Nursery is maintained The wood is strong, hard, heavy, dura-

of organized protection. The total area cooperatively by the Georgia Forest Ser- ble, straight and close-grained and light-

of protected land burned over during the vice, the United States Forest Service and brown in color. It is used in the manu-

year was 5,809,320 acres, but 46,457,140 the School of Forestry of the Georgia State facture of furniture, agricultural imple-

acres of unprotected land suffered from College of Agriculture. Orders may be ments, in ship-building, for various kinds

fire. Of the protected forest the area sent directly to the School of Forestry of of construction, tight cooperage, basketry,

burned was less than 1% percent.

the State College of Agriculture at Athens. flooring, railroad ties, etc.