Volume 1 ATLAN TA, GA., APRIL, 193 1 Number 4 FORESTRY ASSOCIATION GEORGIA'S LOST TREE CHICOPEE COMPANY PLANTS PROGRAM ANNOUNCED OF ALTAHAMA SWAMPS PINES * * * * * * * * * Noted Speakers to be Heard at Al- Bartram Discovered Tree One Hun- The Chicopee Manufacturing Company, bany, May 20 and 21, on Practical dred and Fifty Years Ago and n ear Gainesville, r ecently planted 20,000 loblolly pine seedlings on aban don ed farm Subjects - Field Demonstrations Progency Now Scattered Over land within their holdings. Will Feature Afternoon of Second World, But Original Has Never This planting operation is conducted un- Day-Tentative Program Given. Been Found Again. der plans prepared by the Georgia Forest The tenth annual session of the Georgia Se1vice for the management of their three Forestry Association will be held at Al- William Bartram r e c or d s in his thousand acres of forest land which they bany, May 20 and 21. A program of out- " Travels", the discover y and n aming of have under organized fire protection. standing interest has about been perfected. the F ranklinia ( Gordonia alatamaha) a s All open lands which will not restock Eminent authorit ies will deal with practi- f ollows : " . . . I employed myself in re- within a reasonable t ime are being planted, cal subj ects and point the way to the de- visiting the sever al districts of Georgia .. the idea being to convert the entire area velopment of great potential f orest r e- wher e I noted the most curious subjects: to forest as rapidly as possible. sources of Georgia. coll ecting them t og ether and shipping them This is. the third year in which planting The public is invited t o atten d all ses- (Continued on page 2, co lu mn 2 ) oper ations have been conduct ed and is a sions of the association m eeting and the r egular par t of their fo r estr y program. field demonst rations wher e imp ortant Seedlings were purchased from the phases of fir e control and f orest m anagement will be given. Senator William Harris will attend and Govern or Franklin Roosevelt ha s been invited. The officers of t he Geor gia Forestry Association ar e: Presiden t T . G. Woolfo rd , Atlanta ; First Vice-President Mrs. M. E. Judd, Dalton ; Second Vice-President S. H. Morgan, Guyton; Third Vice-President Dr. W. M. Folks, W aycross; Treasur er Joseph A. McCord, Atla n ta ; Secretar y Bonn ell Stone, Blairsville; Chairman of t h e Executive Committee C. B. Harman, Atlanta. Other m embers of t h e E xecutive Commit t ee are H. L. Kayton, Savanna h; A. K. Sessom s, Cogdell; Mrs. Nora L. Smith, Ashburn ; Col. R. E. Ben edict , Br unswick ; J am es B. Nevin , Atlanta ; Miss E mily Woo dwar d, St at e Nursery at Athens, Georgia. * * ::: Grand Jury of Chatham County on Fire Measures At a r ecent meeting of the gr and jury of Chatham county in present m ents made to Ju dge P eter Meldrim, special attention was given t o r eport of the f or est fire preventi on comm ittee. Recommendation s were made that a truck be equipped by the count y f or fo r est fire fight ing, t h at a for- est fire look out tower b e er ected a n d man- ned to detect and report fires and that trusty convicts under a guard be rushed by t he t ru ck to suppress the fires bef or e they m ake headway. - -- - - - Value of School Forests Commenting on the work of the Lump- Vienna; Gordon E. Reynolds, Albany; B. C. Milner, East Point; Judge Ogden Persons, Forsyth; W. T. Anderson, Macon. kin High School Forest, which is one. of more than a hundred similar school forests in Georgia, the Columbus Enquirer- The local committee at Albany in charge Sun says editorially: "The education of of convention arrangements is composed of the children of the country so that they W. H. Burt, J. P. Champion, J. B. Davis, will appreciate the value of forests and Percy Price, J. W. Reynolds. will take part in the planting and care of The tentative program is as follows: Pro~ram Morning Session 10:00 o'clock (Central T.) (Continued on page 2, column 1) T. G. Woolford, President of Geor g ia F orestry Association. A public spirited business man who has taken time to render valuable service to the cause of forestry in Georgia them is our greatest hope. The work at the Lumpkin school and others in the state is prophetic of forest culture on a large scale in Georgia". 2 GEORGIA FOREST LOOKOUT GEORGIA FOREST SERVICE 9. Permanent Foundations for Forest In- of about ten or twelve years ago, at this dustries. (To be selected). place, when I attended my father (John Published Monthly By GEORGIA FOREST SERVICE State Capitol Atlanta, Ga. C. A. Whittle, Editor 10. The Forest Tax Situation-Mr. J. A. Bartram) on a botanical excursion; but, it Davis, Albany, and mel, Savannah, Ga. Mr. George Rom- being then late in autumn, we could form 11. Reaching the Man Who Owns the For- no opinion to what class or tribe it belong- est-Mr. Austin Carey, U. S. Forest ed. We never saw it grow in any other Staff of the Georgia Foerst Service Service, Starke, Fla. place, nor have I ever seen it growing B. M. Lufburrow, State Forester......Atlanta C. A. Whittle, Director of Education and Utilization ------------------------------------ Atlanta ENerett B. Stone, Jr., Assistant State Forester -------------------------------- Gainesville H. M. _S__ _e_b__r__i_n__g_ _,___A___s_s__t_.__ _S___t_a__t_e_ ___F__o_ _r__e_s__t_e_ _r,Macon C. Bernard Beale, District Forester, ----------------------------------------------Waycross W. D. Young, District Forester____________Rome Jack Thurmond, District Forester, 12. Forestry Education in the SchoolsMr. Paul Chapman, Athens, Ga. 13. Training Foresters for Georgia-Mr. G. D. Marckworth, Athens, Ga. Business Meeting. Open Discussion. Afternoon Session________________________ 2 :00 o'clock Forestry Meeting of the Public Schools. Field Demonstrations. Assistant State Forester H. M. Sebring, Macon, Ga. wild, in all my travels, from Pennsylvania to Point Coupe, on the banks of the Mississippi, which must be allowed a very singular and unaccountable circumstance; at this place there are two or three acres of ground where it grows plentifully." Cuttings from this plant discovered by William Bartram were taken to his father who then lived in Philadelphia where it * * * ---------------------------------------- Savannah was planted in the city park and today is Charles N. Elliott, Assistant Director of Education ------------------------------------ Atlanta H. D. Story, Jr., District Forester, ----------- ____ ________ __ ____ ____ ____ __ ___ _____ _ Albany T. G. WOOLFORD LEADER IN FORESTRY DEVELOPMENT to be seen there in the Arnold Arboretum of that city. As Bartram mentioned, some of the cuttings also went to England where W. G. Wallace, District Forester, T. G. Woolford, Atlanta, President of they were placed in cultivation. . ------------------------------------------ Columbus the Georgia Forestry Association, business Botanists following William Bartram de- Mrs. Nellie Nix Edwards, Secretary to the State Forester -~----------------------------Atlanta Miss Clifford Sims, Secretary to the Direc- leader given and time, public spirited citizen, has money and rare executive termined the Franklinia to be a true Gordonia, as Bartram at first thought it to be. tor of Education and Utilization, Atlanta ability to the promotion of the interests of Today this plant bears the scientific name forestry in Georgia. His sound judgments, of Gordonia alatamaha with its discover- Forestry Assn.-Cont'd ability to see through a proposition and to er's scientific name, Franklinia, as its comclarify and simplify conclusions has won mon name. Presiding________T, G. Woolford, Atlanta, Ga. Invocation-Rev. Reese Griffin. Welcome-Mayor J. S. Billingslea. for him the admiration of associates in the Georgia Forestry Association. His valua- As Bartram suggested in his "Travels", the occurrence of this species is "singular Response-President T. G. Woolford, Ga. ble services to forestry merits the grati- and unaccountable". It has never been Forestry Association. tude of the whole state. found native anywhere else in the world 1. What Forestry Means to Georgia-Mr. W. T. Anderson, Macon, Ga. 2. Progress and Plans in State Forestry- Mr. Woolford is President of the Retail Credit Company, member of a number of except on these few acres in the Altamaha swamps. It is a tree that has been hidden Mr. B. M. Lufburrow, State Forester, civic organizations, chairman of the At- in the semi-tropical vegetation of southern Atlanta, Ga. lantic-Gulf canal commission of the st~e Georgia for over a hundred and fifty years. 3. Research Aids to G"'nrscia Forest OwnersPine Belt-Mr. E . .L. .Demon, Dir., U. in which capacity he has been very active and influential in presenting every claim Many have success. sought for the tree without S. Forest Experiment Station, New favorable to the construction of this pro- One wonders how such a plant came in- Orleans, La. posed waterway, leaving nothing undone to existence and why it was confined to Hardwood Belt-Dr. C. R. Hursh, Forest Ecologist, Appalachian Forest Station, Asheville, N. C. to accomplish the desired ends. Mr. Woolford is a native of Maryland, a only face two or of the three small acres on the wide earth. One also wonders if 4. A Railroad's Experience in Fire Pro- Georgian for many years, an acquisition of the tree wages a losing fight for its place tection-Mr. Roland Turner, Atlanta, which the state may well be proud, for few in the plant world as the common chestnut Ga. Business Meeting. Open Discussion. indeed are rendering Georgia as valuable of the mountains (Castanea dentata) is service as he. now doing, or if it had just begun to live 1:00 P. M. Luncheon mittee meetings. Conference-Com- The cause of forestry is fortunate in and had conquered and spread its canopies enlisting his services. It is, therefore, with over only a small domain of a few acres a feeling of pride that the Georgia Forest when Bartram discovered it. Afternc;>on Session-2 :30 (C. T.) Lookout presents his likeness in its gal- Charles Newton Elliott. Presiding-Mr. H. L. Kayton, Savannah, lery of forestry notables of the state in Ga. this issue. 5. Law Enforcement in Fire Protection- Naval Stores Loans Senator Walter F. George succeeded in * * * Judge Ogden Persons, Forsyth, Ga. getting his bill entitling naval stores to re- 6. Tiny Living Cells Today Build MultiProduct Pines-Dr. Eloise Gerry, U. S. Forest Products Laboratory, Madi- to Lost Tree-Cont'd England. I had the opportunity of ob- ceive federal loans from the Farm Relief Board passed through the short session of son, Wis. serving the new flowering shrub, resem- Congress. It got through as a rider on 7. Timber and Railroads-S. R. Young, bling the Gordonia. On first observing the oleomargarine bill. The bill was ap- 8. Asst. Chief Engineer, A. & W. P. Rail- road, Atlanta. New Sources of Wealth for the South- Dr. Charles Herty, Industrial Chemist, the fructification and habit of this tree, I was inclined to believe it a species of Gordonia; but afterwards, upon stricter ex- proved by What President Hoover. Fire Did to Pine Growth New York, N. Y. amination, and comparing its flowers and A report from the Ty Ty school which Open Discussion. fruit with those of the Gordonia lasianthus, has a school forest, in the Moultrie Obser- I presently found striking characteristics ver, tells of measurements made on burned B anqueL-----------------------------------------7 :30 P. M. abundantly sufficient to separate it from and unburned sample plots. On the burned Toastmaster-Mr. G. E. Reynolds, Albany, that genus, and to establish it the head of area the growth in height of young trees Ga. Addresses. a new tribe, which we have honoured with was 15 1-2 inches, whereas on the un- Morning Second Day Session ____________________________10 o'clock the name Franklin. of the illustrious Dr. Benjamin Franklinia Alatamaha . . . This burned This is area the growth one of the lessons was 40 inches. taught by the Presiding-Mr. I. F. Eldredge, Fargo, Ga. very curious tree was first taken notice vocational schools' demonstration forests. GEORGIA FOREST LOOKOUT 3 GORDON D. MARCKWORTH INCREASED TREE PLANTING NEW HEAD GEORGIA Most of the tree planting in Georgia oc- FORESTRY SCHOOL Professor Gordon D. Marckworth has curs in late winter and early spring. This year more trees were planted than for any been elected head of the Forestry D1v1S10n previous period. of the Georgia State College of Agricul- From such records as are available, it ture at Athens to succeed Professor T. D. is estimated that 4,000,000 trees were SIXTH DISTRICT Jack Thurmond, Distr~.::t Forester Savannah Stafford's Experience With Fire Breaks Burleigh now located at the Appalachian planted in Georgia this year. Nearly two In September, 1930, the Liberty County Forest Experiment Station at Asheville. million seedlings grown at the state tree Timber Protective Organization was formed Professor Marckworth obtained his de- nursery were sold. Several large timber and included 17,145 acres of cut-over and gree of Bachelor of Science in Forestry owners conduct their own tree nurseries burned land. The job of building fire- from the Ohio State University in 1916 and have made extensive plantings. A breaks and patrolling for fires was under- and his Master's Degree in Forestry from number of vocational schools have opera- taken by Mr. W. I. Stafford, a native of Yale in 1917. Since that time, he has ted tree seed beds and planted the seed- Liberty county, and a believer in rough held the position of Assistant state forest- lings they grew. Commercial tree nurs- woods. He has worked faithfully, and er of Virginia, saw service in the World eries in other states have shipped into some of his experiences and views on War and then he was sent from the A. E. F . Georgia a large number of seedlings. In fire-break construction are given in the to attend the University of Edinburgh in addition, quite a number of timber owners following statement: Scotland where he studied British forest- have transplanted seedlings from the woods "I have been plowing and burning out ry methods and conditions. or borders of fields to open places. fire-breaks since the first of last November. He was elected assistant state forester of Texas in the spring of 1920 and in the More slash pine than any other species has been planted, followed in their order We have used the method prescribed by the Georgia Forest Service. I have given this work my best thought and considera- summer of 1921 resigned this position to by loblolly and longleaf pines. Hardwood tion, and have not been able to devise or organize and take charge of the forest plantings have been small, among leaders invent a better or more economical fire- protection work in Tennessee. After two years in this position, Professor Marek- are black locust, gum and walnut. ash, yellow poplar, red break than the method prescribed by them. We use a double disc plow drawn by a 15-30 International tractor. The woods worth resigned to spend a year in com- were rough and full of lightwood stumps. mercial work and then resumed his activities in forestry as assistant state forester in charge of protection in Maryland. From the Maryland Forest Service, Pro- FIRST DISTRICT W. B. Young, District Forester Rome Had the misfortune of breaking the plow several times. However, the plow did real good work, and so the burning out was not so hazardous. "We tried to make our break 50 to 60 fessor Marckworth resigned to take the feet wide, burning out between furrows. position of Associate Professor of Forestry in the Louisiana State University, and two Reinhardt College to Scale Plant on Large Found we had less trouble with fires catching out behind us when we had the dirt thrown from the break. -When thrown to years later was made head of the forestry Reinhardt College, at Waleska, Georgia, the break, fire gets under the turf, burn- department of that institution, which position he held until coming to the Division of Forestry of the College of Agriculture at plans extensive forest planting for next year. Under the supervision of Mr. L. T. Hagood, vocational teacher, four 4 by 12 ing rotten wood and dry grass, sometimes catching out after the crew has been gone for several minutes. We find that fire-break construction must be done well, burned Athens. feet beds have been constructed and will out clean, and be well connected. Woods Professor Marckworth is a Senior Member of the Society of AmeJ: