Outdoor Georgia, 1941 - 1942

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GRADUATES TO BROADER FIELD OF SERVICE

W lTH this issue, OUTDOOR GEORGIA becomes the official publication of the entire Department of Natural Resources- not only of the Division of Wildlife. The duties of OUTDOOR GEORGIA will include not only the

preserving of Georgia's natural resources, but their exploi tation and development for the public good to the end that

Georgia's best natural resources, the people, may benefit.

The n ext most important change you will notice in this issu e of the magazine is the job of conservation done on the magazine itseU b y Zack D. Cravey, the n ew Commissioner of Natural R e-

sources.

Governor Greatly Impressed
Governor Eugene Talmadge

OUTDOOR GEORGIA'S mink coat is being swapped for a dress of simple

gin gham , and th e sleeves are bein g rolled up so the magazine can really get to

work in development of the State's resources.

Covers for th is magazine in the future will show scenes and in cidents di-

rectly concernin g Georgia and including Georgia people and accomplishments.

T he Department of Natural Resources photographer is constantly on the alert

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for unu sual p ictures and will pass them along to the subscribers.

ACCENT O N FACTS

Wildlife Program Explained
Commissioner lack D. Cravey
America Discovers Okefenokee
Beverly Wallace
State Parks Short Cut to Health, Recreation
R. F. Burch
Congratulations to Trammell Scott
State Forestry Division .

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Expensive four-color process covers that made th e front of th e magazine loo k like a wall calendar have been abandoned, production costs have been trimmed to meet th e Department's ability to finan ce a monthly publication, and th e accent will be on fact in stead of fiction- OUTDOOR GEOR GIA will be
neat but not gaudy. Wh en Commissioner Cravey look over the duties of his offi ce, he found the
Wildlife Division's actual expense each month on OUTDOOR GEORGIA was in th e neighborhood of $1,500 for 7,500 copies, which in cluded salaries of th ose who prepared the material for the publication. This meant th e magazine cos t the division about 20 cents a copy, a nd was pri ced to sell at 15 cents. Th e Wildlife Division was gettin g onl y half that sum on co pies sold , all owing for commissions to news-stand s and subscription agents. Our new price is lOc per co py or 75c per year.

Walter Dyal
Photos of Georgia Wildlife
Joe Stearns
Value of Conservation .
Vernon Wallace
Editor's Note to Subscribers
Protect Our Woods
Rangers Get Results
Ed Wall

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Had advertising revenue been adequate to carry this cost, this would not have mattered, but advertising as a rule ran be tween $250 and $500 an issue-usually at the lower figure. This simply meant that the burden of publishing an expensive magazine was on the backs of those who pay hunting and fishing lice n ses to operate the Division, and thus the magazine resulted in a liability than an asset.
SELF-SUPPORTING
Commissioner Cravey believes that the magazin e can be made a real a sset of the Department of atural Resources- not alone from ed uca tional and interest-provoking angles, but as a self-supporting publication of general interest in the conservation fi eld. To do thi s, however, publication costs must be figured with in th e possible revenu e from the magazine. Th us, the Department will have a magazine that has room to grow as the conservation work develops.

You Tell 'Em .
Joe Stearns
This Month's Recipe

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OUTDOOR GEO RGIA will be your seat on the 50-yard line in one of the

greatest developments of the State's natural wealth- game and fi sl, , forests,

minerals and recreational opportunities, as Commissioner Cravey carries out

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the instru ctions of Governor Talmadge to "find out about the oil and the gold

in Georgia becau se we need them now. "

Book Reviews In the Field of Geology

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Far and above the search for earthbound ores, the Department

will emphasize the d evelopment of the resource Governor Tal-

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madge has described as Georgia's greatest-her people.

Captain Peyton

READY TO SERVE PUBLIC

Where and What They're Biting Fishing Calendar and Regulations

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Commissioner Cravey wa nts Georgians to know that the Department truly is at th eir se rvice-th at he will seek to give the public th e greatest good at the

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lea st possible cost enabling Georgians to take full advantage of her natural opportunities to become in reali ty the "Empire State of th e South."

Commissioner Cravey seek s and appreciates the cooperation of everyone in-

terested in the progress of Georgia along conservation lines . . . and so to work!

JULY, 1941

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Volume X, No. 10

JOE L. STEARNS, Managing Editor

ZACK D. CRAVEY, Editor

BEVERLY WALLACE, Feature Editor

Puol ished mon thly by The Georgia Division of Wi ldlife, 422 State Ca pitol, Atlanta, Ga. , in t he inter es t of Georg ia wildlife and for fisher-
men, hun ters, nature love rs and conser vation of nat ural r esources . Sing le copy, 10 cents. Y ear ly s ubscriptions to United States and its poss~s si?ns, . and C!l ~ada , 75 cents ; other countries, $1.50. Subscribe r s must notify us of cha nge of address four wee ks in advance of next pub-
hcatton. date, g t v mg both old and new address. Conte n ts of this magazine must no t be r eprinted without pe rmiss io n. This mag azine is g lad
to rece ive photos, drawings, stories and articles dealing with outdoor s ubjects, but cannot guarantee return of unsolicated contributions nor ins u re a gainst their loss. Contributions not a ccompanied by s ufficie nt postage will n ot be re t urned. Entered a s 2nd class matter Augus t 31, 1940, at the p ost office at Atlanta, unde r the Act of March 3, 1879.

Gov. Talmadge
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GOV. GENE TALMADGE
GOVERNOR TALMADGE on his return recently from a fishing trip to Wisconsin predicted that Georgia will be adopting some of the methods which have made that state outstanding in wildlife and conservation.
"I was amazed and mighty interested in the things I saw there," he declared. " Of course we can 't adopt many of their methods but some of them will work to good advantage in Georgia . We've got the climate, rainfall and other natural advantages over Wisconsin and there's no reason why we can go even further than that State with our supply of wildlife."
The Governor said he and Director Zack D. Cravey would study the question and decide which of Wiscon sin's projects would he suitable for adoption in Georgia.
"I was impressed especially with the money those hunters and trappers in Wisconsin make from mink, fox, 'coon and other fur bearing animals," he said. "We want to speed up that part of wildlife in Georgia because there's good money in it for our people."
The Governor declared Georgia has Wisconsin beat on a supply of forestry and that we have some "mighty fin e lakes, clear rivers and a front on the ocean " which are advantageous for fish and game propagation.
"We aren't going to spend any more money but we are going to get more for our money's worth from now on with conservation," G-overnor Talmadge said.
The chief executive said he wants Georgia's resources developed, first of all, for the benefit and pleasure of Georgians, but he thinks, too, that its attractions can lure thousands of visitors here. Lure them so they'd spend a few days, or even a couple of weeks here, instead of "j ust passing" through en route tv Florida or some other State to spend their money . Everyone knows that the tourist trade is big business and that when hunters and fi shermen , especially, go ple; .'1ure-seeking they spen d with a lavish hand.
Wisconsin makes millions off of its out-ofstate fishermen and hunters annually, not only through sale of licenses but through what they spend at hotels, restaurants, on gas, etc.
. Director Cravey expressed gratitude for the Governor's Interest in conservation and declared with " his backin~ a~d encouragement, our Department of Natural Resources Will move rapidly in the right direction ."
OUTDOOR GEORGIA July 1941

ZACK D. CRAVEY
Dear Friends of Conservation:
First of all, I wan t to tell you h ow glad I am to resume this work which is so dear to my heart. As you probably know, during my previous administration as Commissioner of Game and Fish, I had the privilege of starting the first official conservation magazine of the State of Georgia. With the assistance of Clint Davis, who is now in charge of education and information for the U. S. Forest Service, I published "The Georgia Sportsman ." We felt this was the best way to bring to interested people our program of conservation and the work we were doing. This magazine, however, was discontinued after I went out of office in 1937.
My immediate predecessor, Charles N. Elliott, seeing the utility of such a publication, started "Outdoor Georgia" and I am delighted that it is now possible for us to con tinue this magazine after having to suspend it temporarily due to the financial condition of the Department when I was appointed in J anuary.
Our. work is divided into three parts-propagation, education, and law enforcement. They are equally important and our program cannot be a success if any one of the three is neglected. This is primarily true of wildlife but also applies to the forestry, parks and mining work.
I want yo u all to feel that this is your magazine, as this work of conservation is your work as well as ours. I want to ask you to give us the benefit of yo ur suggestions. If you have an idea of any phase of our program that you believe could be changed with benefit to the cause, figure out whitt yo u think should be done and write to us and tell us abo ut it. Constructive criticism is always welcome, and we will carefully consider your suggestions. I realize that in many instances our laws are inadequate but we must do the best we can with them until this condition can be remedied.
Sincerely yo urs,
ZACK D. CRAVEY, Commissioner.
COVER PAGES
Top picture on front page shows the solemn stillness of the magnificent Okefenokee Swamp with trees reflected gracefully in the dark, mysterious waters.
Lower picture is the answer to a fishermons dream-a large mouth bass. With every cast, anglers hope for something like this to be tugging on the other end.
The back page photo was snapped in Vogel first rhododendrons burst into bloom .

AMERICA DISCOVERS

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FEATURE EDITOR

F OR centuries the great Okefenokee Swamp has lain like a sleeping, forgotten 'gator down in South Georgia.
A few ardent Georgians sang its praises and tried to tell the rest of the country about its fascinations but their chronicling fell on deaf ears.
Now, almost all of a sudden, the Okefenokee has been "discovered".
A book, Swamp Water, has been written and turns out to be a best seller. Hollywood sends in production men and starts "shoot ing" this wonderland. Life magazine runs an elaborately illustrated feature on it.

Every day requests for information come to the office of Commissioner of Natural Resources, Zack D. Cravey, or to State Parks Director R. F. Burch. Someone in Canada, Oregon, Pennsylvania, California or Tennes see always is asking how to reach the Okefenokee and if it can be penetrated.

One to " discover" the great swamp before the present " boom" began was Commissioner Cravey. He realized long ago Georgia had something in this swamp to show the rest of the nation and realized too that unless definite steps were taken to preserve its original wildlife, eventually it would be ravished. Principally through J:tis efforts the United States, through its Fish and Wildlife Service, was persuaded to purchase a tract of land on the west side and set up a Biological Survey Refuge where fi bing, under strict regulations, is permitted but where no firearms may
be taken.
SWAMP BOARDWALK
the upper fringe of the swamp, the tate Parks Division of the Department of atural Resources maintains the Okefenokee State Park. The adventurer may enter the swamp by two methods from this point: by rowboat, furnished by Park Superintendent H. M. Garrison, or by walking over a sturdy boardwalk. Eventually the boardwalk comes to an end at a high look-out tower which, after a breathtaking climb, reveals a far reaching view of the evergreen swampland. ow and then a curious alligator splashes through the water, stained a deep red-brown by tannic acid, or a heron glides gracefully along. Wild birds joyously sing their songs and occasionally an eagle beats his great wings above the
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Lookout Tower in Swamp

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OUTDOOR GEORGIA July 1941

STATE PARI(S SHORT CUT TO HEALTH, RECREATION

As most Georgians know, our tate's ' ealth in forests, minerals, water power , wildlife and opportunities fo r recreation are indeed great. o state has a greater number of tree species, nor greater acreage of forest and potential fore t land. one holds greater possibilities for developing wildlife of fields, forest , streams and coastal waters. owhere are there richer possibilities for recreation than extend from Georgia's mountains to the sea.
Governor Talmadge, recognizing the value of Georgia's natural reources and realizing the tate's increasing dependence on them, committed himself to a development program , the value of which to the future welfare of Georgia cannot be estimated in any terms. He stated further, from every stump, that Georgia's greatest natural re ource was her unsullied manhood and womanhood, her boys and her girls, and that they would be given opportunitie and advantages under hi admini tration commensurate ' ith those enj oyed by the more co mopolitan peoples of other states. To that end, education and health facilities are being improved.
It is his purpose to encour age and develop a system of State parks through setting aside and preserving areas of scenic splendor with adequate recreational facilities where family and friends can enjoy outings, and their children can he taught organized work and play toward the development of clean minds and bodies and

By R. F. BURCH
Director of State Parks
* * * * * * acquire inspiration to make of themselves useful citizens.
The Governor' essen tial purpo e through the Divi ion of tate Parks is to provide whole orne outdoor recreation, to the end that health may be improved and human values enhanced. It i a matter of common knowledge that whole orne recreation improves public health and human relations as well.
In this day of automobiles and good roads, people everywhere are thinking of a place to go ... and go they will, whenever they find wholeorne and healthful recreation. The purpose of the Georgia Division of
tate Park i to attract people to wholesome recreation centers where provisions are made for fi shing, boating, swimming, hiking and outdoor game of_variou kinds, and where supervision is provided to as ure afety, sanitation and order. That these public provisions are appreciated is evidenced by the millions who throng the public parks of the nation every day of the year.
The erroneous impression exists that public parks are designed and maintained for the pleasure of the city dwellers. As a matter of fact, they are needed as much if not more for the rural population. The parks provide rural peo ple place for assembling and engaging in organized recrea

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Overlooking Beautiful Lake and Beach at Vogel Park
* * * * * * tion, whereas those residing in cities invariably have such opportunities at hand at all times.
While park con tribute most to the people of Georgia by providing h althful recreation, we are mindful of the fact that our tate is rich in hi tory, being one of the original colonie . We owe to our heroic ci tizens of the past an honor that can be no more fittin gly expressed than by monumen tal parks, and where it is not possible to establish a park, prominent roadside markers are being erected carrying inscribed words descriptive of the historic event transpiring on the sites.
The people of Georgia should not be unmindful of the advantages of tellin g the world of their State's cen ic beauty, its recreational advantages, its inland stream and ea coast fi shing, it exceptional huntin g, its historic sites, its ho pitality, its accommodations to travelers who migrate lorth to South in Winter, and East and West at any season, so that the e visitors may bide awhile in Georgia to enjoy with Georgians what the State has to offer for their pleasure.
Georgia has both ummer and Winter resorts. While its mountains are preferred by recreationist in
ummer, the thou and miles of coa tline on the ocean and inlets are enjoyed in both ummer and Winter. Mo t of Georgia is, however, delightful in the Winter, cool enough to be exhilarating and warm enough to be comfortable. Many wealthy people of the orth maintain Winter homes on the coastal plains of Georgia, and its off- hore islands.
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PRESIDE T TRAMMELL SCOTT

~ T ITS annual meeting in Macon recently, the Georgia Wildlife
.fl.. Federation elected Trammell Scott, widely known sportsman of
Atlanta, president.
Also president of the Southern Ba eball League and an active leader in many other sportsmen's organization , Mr. Scott, in th e eyes of the Wildlife Division, was a wise choice. With him as president, idney Jones of Waynesboro as chairman, and with the long list of well known Geo rgians as directors, the Division f eels that it has a real ally in the F ed eration.
And especially so since receipt by Commissioner Zack D. Cravey of a letter from Pre ident Scott expre sing appreciation to th e former for "your pledge of cooperation with the Federation."
" As you know," Mr. Scott wrote, "the Federation ha set out certain objectives all with a view to improving the hunting and fishing condition in the State and at the same time laying the foundation for an uninter rupted program of general conservation of wildlife."

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OUTDOOR GEORGIA July 1941

By WALTER DYAL
Director oj State Forestry

GEORGIA with a forest area of approximately 23,000,000 acres- of which approximately 1,400,000

acres are in need of reforestation by artificial means-

ha presented the Division of Forestry with a prohlem

which has to be solved.

The solution of thi s problem, which is in no man-

ner a small one, was undertaken in 1932 with the es-

tablishment of forest seedling nurseries at Blairsville

and Alban y, Georgia.

Due to the limited area of suitable ground- 3.4

acres for development and expansion- the production

from the Blairsville nursery was naturally low and in-

adequate to meet the planting demands for the north-

ern part of the State and was aban-

Cultivation Wo rk on Pine Seedlings at Nursery in Albany

* * * * * * * * * * * * doned in 1938. The total number of seed

lings produced and distributed from the Blairsville nurser y during the period from 1932 to 1938 was 414,350 (all species).
The Alban y nurser y was establi shed in 1932 on 11 % acres of land leased from Dougherty County for a period of 99 years.
With the assistance of the Albany Chamber of Commerce and th e cooperation of Dougherty County, developments were planned to provide for the steadily increasing demand

for planting stock for the coastal plain s section of the State.
More lands were leased from the County and the area under cultivation increased until at the present time there are 25.4 acres under irrigation and a total area of 65 acres controlled by the State.
The production and distribution from the Herty nursery at Alban yso named in memory of Dr. Charles Herty- since 1932 has been:

Year
1932-33 1933-34 1934-35 1935-36 1936-3 7 1937-38 1938-39 1939-40

lash
482,066 485,350 438,100 1,547,500 2,652,000 2,472 ,020 12,343,948 16,477,674

Lob loll y
35,500 193,596 39,650 741,810 177,500 273 ,5 12

Lon gleaf
39,500 82,340
700 369,276 363,550 332,200 44,500 120,500

B. Wa ln u t

Total

600 2,225

577,066 761,886 480,675 2 ,658 ,585 3,193,050 3,077,732 12 ,388,448 16,598,174

With the aba ndonment of the small nurser y at Blairsville the Flowery Branch nur ery at Flowery Branch,
Georgia, was established in 1938 on
32.5 acres of land leased from Hall County and plans were formulated and put into execution to provide fo r

an ever-increasi ng demand for planting stock for the northern portion of
the State. At the present time there is under
irrigation at the Flowery Branch lursery 11.27 acres and there has been produced and distributed from this nurser y since its establishment:

EXPERTS AID
Recently in Texas ballistic experts have assisted game wardens in convicting violators who made illegal deer kill s.

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Total

1938-39 359,280 1,067,470 183,200 52,500 38,000 1,700,450

1939-40 314,417 3,706,275

306,015 6,600 4,326,707

_ The intense and ever-increas in g her nurseries has placed Georgia in Interest in pla nting by Georgia's manv I he front ranks in the production and landowners together with the careful distribution of forest seedlings.
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1 - Jackson Lake went down 27 feet during drouth . Here is seen boat dock with boat barely touching water. 2 - A State Ranger rescued this little Jack during drouth and later released him in live water. 3 - Roy Krauss, State Ranger, breaks up a fish basket at Jackson Lake. 4 - These kiddies have the right idea about how to keep cool at Indian Springs State Park.

5 - Shorty Vaughan, Jackson Lake fisherman, proudly shows his Carp catch . They made swell barbecue. 6 - Georgia's fishing pestthe Gar. The Gar has few friends due to its destructive efforts. 7 - Note water by this moccasin's body. He was snapped on the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp and still lives there. 8 - Julian Peterson, popular sportsman of Ailey, shows a pan of perch ready for delivery to the chef.
All pictures by Joe Stearns

Value of eo



IN GEORGIA EDUCATION

B11 Ve~UUU~. 'k/all.a.a

Head of Biology, outh Georgia College, Douglas

T HERE are no BAD BOY -

this belief is a ma-

jor factor in the

success which has

att end ed Father

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Flanigan's rehabil-

itation of youths

VERNO WALLACE at h iS fa m 0 US

Boys' Town School ... likewise, there

are JO boys who do not love birds,

animals and the great outdoors.

A proper realization and apprecia-

ti on of this premise in our schools

will go a long way toward develp-

ment of good citizenry and in con-

servin g and increasin g the tremend-

ous natural reso urces which endow

our state.

Some schools, working in

co-operation with Commission-

er or Natural Resources Zack

D. Cravey, have had tremen

dous success distributing quail

eggs to boys and girls for

hatching under bantam hens.

One such school is South Georgia
College at Douglas, where Bobwhite
were carried through the winter for
Lhe purpose of experim entation in
rural schools of Coffee co unty. On
visits to the College , these rural
yo ungsters invariably showed a bub-
ling enthusiasm to aid in quail prop-
agati on and protection and their first
question always was "can we get eggs in the spring ?" oo n ever y chool in the county wanted eggs for its grounds and Superintendent Ostclle Womack, of Broxton , and Math Logue, agriculture teacher at Satilla school, obtained birds from the College and spon ored programs of their own at their schools.
Wo rk of Commissioner Cravey in di stributing thousands of eggs this summer, produced at the State Game Farm in Atlanta, is a step in the right direction. ot only will these quail be released in woods at maturity and in crease Georgia 's suppl y of game bird , but the interest generated through this project will induce man to give nature a little a sistance in

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protecting, propagatin g and conser vin g these creatures.
After a youngster, or an adult for that matter, watches a baby quail grow and cares for it, he feels a definite part nership with it. There is no need to worry over that individual's future protection of wildlife. When he goes hunt ing thereafter he won't kill the last two or three birds in a covey, or have an itch to shoot over baited fields or out of season.
Protection ? Indeed- have yo u ever seen the quick anger of a boy when a marauder threatens one of his pets? An example: a stray cat caught one of Franklin McArthur's pet quail at Mount Vern on and that cat died. When a 'possum had the nerve to destroy a pair of quail belongin g to Julian P eterson of Ailey that marau-
WITH der paid the extreme penalty. their intriguing ways and habits, the birds furnish enough interest to keep boys' interest at top pitch always. There's never an y trouble in gettin g them to look after the creatures- and raising wild things in domestic surrounding does require a considerable am ount of effort. Professor T. H. "Slap" Rentz, of So uth
Editor's Note To Subscribers -
This magazine has been suspended fo r several months but now is back on schedule. The co pies yo u missed will come t0 yo u on beyond yo ur scheduled ex piration date.
The editor welcomes read ers to comment and write in. Our purpose is to spread conser vation ideals, teach sportsmanship, instruct on the art of outdoor life and enj oyment and to preserve and propagate Geo rgia's natural resources.

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Georgia College, obtained a setting of eggs from the State Quail Farm and a couple of cocks from the College surplus.
After the eggs had been hatched by a bantam hen, one of the cocks developed such an interest in the baby birds that he literally stole them from their fo:ote l mother. The Rentz boys were amazed and excited and their father found it no trouble at all to keep alive their interest in the project.
Georgia schools can make excellent progress by linking the home and school together through an y one of man y proj ects dealing with natural reso urces. But none lends itself better to the school boy or girl than quail rai sing. Proper planting, fire co ntrol, soil erosion , reforestationall of these and other things have a defin ite connection with quail propagation and a far-reaching influence on o ur natural re ources.
PROTECT OUR WOODS
Protect our woods, Oh, God. Let not the fire from careless hands burn all Thy splendor
down, Leaving behind an ugly blackened pyre. Keep watch above the ancient pines that
crown
The hilltops with their lovely boughs of green. Keep watch above the oaks, the fir, the spruce That shield Thy little ones who live unseen In hidden vale. Keep coverts for their use.
Protect our woods, and watch above all things That need Thy care . Keep all the melody Of mountain sound. Oh, keep the bird that
sings So faithfully the morning reveille. Walk by the stream, Our father, through the
brakes Where little furry creatures dream and play. Go with the deer, and take the way he takes, That mounting flames may neither trap nor
slay.
Protect our woods in all their loveliness. All creatures of the water - keep them, too . Keep all the wonders that the woods possess. Prevent the thou3htless deeds that people do, Destroying excellence that is of T~ee. On mountain lop and in secluded glen Watch over all Thy woodland majesty The home of our dumb creatures, God. Amen .
- Christine Park Hankinson .

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Ol.JTDOOR GEORGIA July 1941

RANGERS
Get Results
On Enforcement
By ED WALL - - - - - '
Georgia 's Wildlife Rangers are gettin" results in their efforts to enforce the" game and fi sh laws. Since Mr. Cravey took office on January 15th, there have been numerous cases made for infractions of the game and fish laws. These cases included practically every type of violation from poisoning and dynamiting fish to fi shing without a license. Violations have slowed dow n considerably in the last few weeks, since these people have had it brought so forcibl y to their attention that the Rangers are
on the j ob. Law enforcement work is not the
only job our Rangers have to do, however. A great deal depends on the respect the individual Ranger commands in his community. A Ranger who does not conduct himself properl y cannot hope to get the cooperation of the people with whom he is working. On the other hand, with hard work and proper conduct he will not have an y trouble getting cooperation. In most cases, if a Ranger is respected by the majority of the people of his county, he will not have trouble getting convictions in the co urts of that county if the cases warrant a conviction.
Many of the Rangers today are men with years of exp,erience in enforcement work, and most of them are well-educated and enjoy the r espect and cooperation of their people.
The biggest job that the Rangers have ahead of them is educational work. If we are to succeed in our co nserva ti on program, we must teach the yo ung people the value of our wild life and what they can do to help wi th the program. The yo uth of toda y is our greatest resource, and what will be done with our natural re ources in the future depends large~ ~ on what we do with the boys and ~trl s now. Let us work patiently and ti relessly with the men and women of tomorrow. Then our efforts will not have been in vain.

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You Tell 'fm ~

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This column is now and will be in the future devoted to those fishermen and hunters who have a story to telL Send us yo ur favorite " tall" tale.

Lem Griffis, one

of Okefenokee's

ace guides, leads

off this new feature and at pres-

LEM GRIFFIS

ent must be given credit as Georgia's

King of Raconteurs. Hold tight -

here's some of Lem's best:

Plenty Honey
We shift the scene to the edge of the mysterious Okefenokee Swamp and darkness has settled over the swampland. Lem is entertaining some guests in his camp. Lem is talking-
" ow you folks just help yo urself to the honey. I have more honey here than anything else since I crossed up my bees and lightning bugs. ow the bees work all night."

Biggest Fish
" The biggest fish ever heard of down this way was caught by a fellow who was sitting on a tree stump just off the bank. The fish bit his hook, and pulled the man off in the water. Then the fish started up stream, very fast. The man was a real fisherman and hung on. The fellow was skimming along the top of the water so fast that the seat of his pants caught fire and he had to turn loose the fish to put th e fire out. "
Rabbit Dog
Lem pointed to his dog which was curled up in a corner peacefull y sleepin g .
" That's my rabbit dog. But he's getting a little old now. The only pleasure that dog gets out of life is chasing rabbits, but age has slowed him down a lot. Now not very lon g ago I took this dog off and taught him to throw hi s voice. Well sir, it sure is nice these nights to sit on the porch with that dog and listen to him chasin g rabbits all over the swamp! "

u THIS MONTH'S RECIPE

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Each month Outdoor Georgia will offer a recipe. Wh y not tr y all of them? Let us know how much you enj oyed the suggested dish. This month we offer:
CORNED FISH STEW
3 Cups of flakes prepared from boiled corned fi sh of a lean white meat variety, care being taken to remove ALL bones.
11;2 Cups dried lima beans
l Qt. milk (heated ) l Tbsp. butter {or cooking oil) 1fs Tsp. pepper.
Soak th e bean s ove rnight and th en hoi I th em until they are tender ; there should be a minimum of water when cookin g is compl eted. Stir the fi sh flak es into the bean s without breaking th e latter, arid the heated milk and stir in the buller and pe pp e r.

My! How Thick
Asked if the Okefenokee jungles are thick, Lem said: " Why it is so bad in some parts yo u have to h ac~ up to bat yo ur eye. And there is a pickerel weed that grows in the swamp. You can take a piece of this weed about half the size of a BB shot and bite it and believe me, yo u can spit pure blazes for an hour.
Cooling Off
" Why I was in my boat on Billy's Lake one day and saw a fellow bite off a chunk of pickerel weed. Well, sir, this fellow started drinking cold water out of Billy's Lake and if he hadn't been stopped I would have had to get out of m y boat and walk home."
Those are Lem's stories and he is stuck with them . . .. Send in yours.
Snake Bite W. T. Anderson, one of Georgia's outstanding conservationists and Macon newspaper editor, likes to tell this one: "A friend of mine in South Georgia has some land that is overrun with snakes. This fellow was snake bit so many times, he finall y took a co uple of stove pipes and wore them over his legs. Now when he walks around his property the snakes hit the pipes so often it so unds like a squad of yo ungsters shooting BB rifles at a tin barn." Yo u will hear more from W. T. later.

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SWAMP WATER
By Georgia's J"ereen Bell
Publis h e d by Little, Brown & Company
Georgian s especiall y will enjoy Swamp Water hut all readers will thrill to the wonders of Okefenokee Swamp as pictured in thi s best-seller by Vereen Bell .
Comparatively few residents of this State have seen their own great swampland but few there are who won' t have the urge to . go expl oring after reading thi s description. Author Bell, who hail s from Valdosta, presents a breath-taking picture of thi s land where giant moss-draped cypresses tremble at the weight of a man's bod y passing over the oozy earth and where alli gators push curious, gleamin g eyes out of brackish waters.
Ben Ragan, who next to the swamp is the "hero"-if a place might be called a "hero"---of the story. Ben was a headstrong lad with a yen to penetrate the wild area. His father, Thursday, ordered him to stay out of old Okefenokee and Julie, his girl, trembled at the thought of such reckless daring.
Trouble, hard-headed hound which could outrun any fox, led Ben into the swamp one day. The lad hadn't fi gured on coming fa ce to face with Tom Keefer, who had fl ed into the unknown jungle-wilderness after killing his sister's brutal husband the previou s year. Old Tom didn' t know the swamp when he first sought refuge in it but he did know the brutality of aroused mankind and he infinitely preferred to risk the savagery of nature to that of humanity.
The story of Swamp Water moves rapidly, a tale of adventure, emo tions, and a sprinkling o.f romance hut most of all a tale of the ~real swamp. The characters, their codes and manners, are r efr eshingly presented.
Swamp Water appeared first in serial form in the Saturday Evening Post with illustrations which would be a welcomed addition to th e hook. At present Twentieth Cen tury F ox is in the swamp filmin g th e book and , with its abounding wild scenery, the pi cture bids fair to hold a record for magnificent photography.
Geo rgians mu st feel a deep sense of pride and gra titud e for th e polished job Vereen Bell has turned out. The book, after its presentati on on the screen, will call America's attention to one of th e outstandin g natural wonders of thi s co untry- Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp.
- B. W.
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"WILDLIFE CONSERVATION"
B y Ira N. Gabrielson
Publish ed by The .Ma c millan Company, New York - Price 83.50
o American Sportsman's library can be considered compl ete without a copy of Ira Gabrielson's new book on conservation. In a smooth , enlightening and interesting style, Gabrielson takes th e reader step by step into conservation errors, and what is more practical , point out meth ods for correcting the evils.
There is plenty of solid information for all properly own ers. The benefit s of lakes, ponds and marsh lands are outlined and the value of reforestation emphasized. There isn't a dull page from start to fini sh.
In a refreshing way, Gabrielson ties up the forest, earth, climate, water into wild life propagation and points out effectively the relation. From the lowly snake to the highest fl ying bird, the rea~er learns new fa cts, details and word pi cture of the home life of America 's animal kingdom.
The author is at war with no particular system nor with any person nor organization. More than anything else there is an appeal for cooperation from every source and intensified individual action. City people who only occasionally visit the woods and indulge in hunting and fi shing may se cure a splendid education from the con tents of Gabrielson's timely and effective "Wildlife Conservation."- }. L. S.
ADVENTURES IN BIRD PROTECTION
By Thomas Gilbert Pearson
Publis hers-D. Applet on Century Co . New York. Price 83.50
Adventures in Bird Protection is primarily an autobiography of Thomas Gilbert P earson, a so utherner who devoted hi s life to wildlife conserva tion in general and to bird protection in particular. However, this most easily read book also describes the start of wildlife protection in thi s country, giving in detail many entertaining episodes in the development of conservation legislation in the variou s states. One of th e most interesting and successful fi ghts in his conservation career was makin g illegal the enormous business of importing and selling the plumage of herons and oth er birds for decoration of women's ha ts.
This book will appeal to everyone in terested in any phase of wildlife and it proper conservation, si nce it reveals how, as in Dr. P ea rson's life, a sportsman can enj oy fi shin g and hunting and still not be a game hog. P earson writes with the tou ch that stamps him as an expert in hi s fi eld.
- F. E.

OKEFENOKEE
(Continued from Page 4)
towerin g cy presses. Although mosquitoes at thi s time of year are not bad, yellow fli es are a nui ance and the sightseer will do well to smear kerosene or some r epellant substan ce on hi s body.
Okefenokee State Park offers no cam pin g or over night fa cilities, but in Waycross, Brunswick and other nearby places first class hotels and motor courts are available. The hearty so ul who prefers to spend th e ni gh t on the edge of the swamp will find fi shin g camps at Fargo and Folkston.
STATE PARK NEAR
Okefenokee State Park is reached by traveling U. S. Route No. 1, then by branching out on a road, clearly marked, wh ich is under construction but not at all bad for traversing. In the same vicinity is Laura S. Walker State Park, a few miles east of Waycross, where fishing in th e 127acre lake is permitted on Mondays and Thursdays. At this park as well as at Okefenokee State Park, fi shing is good, also excellent for picnicking a nd daytime out in gs.
Okefenokee visitors always will h ear of Lillian, the deceased " Oueen of the Okef enokee," who made a fortune off of virgin tintber on islands in the swamp. Her historians credit h er with possessing solid gold plates of teeth and sh e required No. 13 shoes.
But of all the strange stories to come ou t of this strange land there is none more fan tastic than that of the "wild man". Ac cord ing to the yarn-spinners he was captured without a stitch of clothing on and had spent hi s entire life in the swamp. He lived on raw fi sh and birds, slept in trees and only the thick mat of hair covering his body protected him from winter winds. He was captured, they will tell you, with fresh meat set in a trap and eventually this Tarzan became tame enough to sleep in a hut on the edge of the swamp.
Many deny the story with a disgusted " poof", but th ere are others who insist it is tru e.
Commissioner Cravey considers Okefenokee one of the outstanding natural wonders of America and thinks that while interest in it everywhere is paramount Georgia, should advertise and pu sh it. In terest will be even grea ter wh en Twentieth Century-Fox completes th e pi cture "Swamp Water" and releases it this fall.
STATE OWNED
Game and fish in their natural state and conditions belong to the State in trust for all of its citizens.
HANDY RULER
Cigarettes are being used to check sizes of fi sh. If you are unable to get accurate measure any other way use cigarettes. The length of any standard size cigarette is 234, inches and th e new long cigarettes are 3 ~ in ches.
OUTDOOR GEORGIA July 1941

IN THE FIELD of GEOLOGY

Serpentine Uncovered ;
Future for Gold
Mining Bright
T HE policy of Governor Talmadge, as announced by the Hon. Zach D. Cravey Commissioner of the Department o'f Natural Resources, will be the healthy development of Georgia's natural resources as a logical means of increasing the per capita wealth and income of the State.
Georgia's minerals constitute one of her most valuable natural resources. Moreover, this is the one branch of Georgia's natural resources which is still practically undeveloped. Georgia's rock formations range in age from the most ancient to the youngest. In these rock formations we find valuable minerals in
~uuraenattitvya.rieMtyoraendthiannal3m5osrot cuknsl,immitiend-
erals and metals either are being mined or have commercial possibilities in the near future.
The Division of Mines, Mining and Geology, Captain Garland Peyton , Director, is the agency charged with the exploration, inventory, and development of the State's mineral resources.
EXTENSION OF ACTIVITIES
Arrangements have been made to extend greatly the activities and accomplishments of the Division through the assistance of the Work Projects Administration and the United States Geological Survey.
The Division of Mines is sponsoring a W. P. A. project to conduct a State-wide mineral survey. This project makes available $300,000 of Federal funds with which to employ laborers, geologists, mining engineers, chemists, assayers, mineralogists, ceramists and diamond drill operators. With this arrangement it is possible to carry out the promise made by Governor Talmadge during hi s inau gural address to investigate the gold deposits in the hills and mountains of north Georgia. These laborers, under the direction of competent engineers and geologists, conduct exploratory work in accordance with field procedures prepared by the technical staff of the Division. Mineral deposits are mapped and samples are taken and forwarded to our Division laborator y for analysis and investigation. In this manner we not only

B , e~ p~ Director of Mines

[jeorgias c:.JUineral Resources

Are Unlimited In Possibilities

* * * * * *
locate mineral deposits but, in addition, we now determine how m uch there is and for what it can be used.
Gold has been mined in Georgia for more than a hundred years. To date no gold mine has been operated deeper than four hundred feet vertically beneath the surface. When it is remembered that gold is being mined in California, Canada, and elsewhere at depths in excess of four thousand feet, it is obvious that as yet we have had no opportunity to determine the potentialities of our gold deposits. The present diamond drilling cam- . paign will enable use to prospect deposits of this type at depths of from 500 feet to 1500 feet.
SERPENTINE UNCOVERED
The facilities and funds at the disposal of the Division are not sufficiently adequate to justify undertaking research and investigations on a large scale. However, we are able to conduct a limited number of investigations. An example of the benefits

* * * * * *
to be derived from such research wo uld be the recent discovery that the large deposit of serpentine in northeast Columbia County is in reality a suitable source of magnesium metal and magnesium compounds. Another example would be the discovery in our laboratory that by subjecting sericite to acid treatment we obtain two commercial products; namely, potassium sulphate and highgrade activated alumina.
Unquestionably, much good would result from the arrangement whereby research in connection with minerals could be conducted on a cooperative basis by this Division, the Georgia School of Ceramic Engineering, and the Georgia Engineering Experiment Station. Such research unquestionably would discover many new uses for Georgia minerals and would be the means of benefiiciating other Georgia minerals to a point where they would compete on a favorable basis with the same mineral raw materials from other sources.

Here in the hands of prelly Boyce Sullivan is shown a la rg e piece of Specular Hemetite, an important iron conta ining mineral valuable in National Defense and in the manufacture of cannons. This ore is found in large deposits in Georgia .

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OUTDOOR GEORGIA offers a new service to its readers. In this issue begins what will be a comprehensive and detailed list of the best fishing holes in the state. This list was compiled mainly through splendid cooperation with State Rangers who furnished the information.
So, here in part is the information all Georgia fishermen have been vain ly seeking. We suggest you clip this out and keep it for future reference. The reports below tell you where the fishin g places are, what kind of fish you can catch , best bait and the accommodations and charges. If your county is not listed this month, look for it next month. Here's where they are--go get 'em.
BACON COUNTY BIG H URRI CA 1 - Hi ghway 1o. 1 ; Bass, Bream ; P erch ; Earthworms; Free.
LITTLE H URRICA - Same as above.
BIG CREEK- Nea r Mershon ; same as ab ove.
BANKS COUNTY H UDSO RIVER- ortheast of Homer; P erch, Suckers, Catfish ; Red Worms; Free. GROVE RIVER-South of Homer; sa me as above. BROAD RIVER- East of Homer ; Suck ers, Catfi sh ; Same as above.
MO UNTAI N CREEK- orth of Homer ; Same as above.
BARROW COUNTY APPALACHEE RIVER- Highway o. 8 out of Auburn ; Blue Cat (Snails), Bream (Red Worm s), S peckled Cat (Go-dev ils), 1ud Cat (Frog legs), Suckers (Comm on dough and cotton ) ; Carp (Common dough and cotton ) ; Free.
BARTOW COUNTY CLEA R LAKE- Hi ghway 41, five miles so uth of Adairsv ille; Jack, Bass, Bream , Cat ; Minnows or worms; Boats ; $1 a day. AUBREY LAKE--On Tennessee hi gh way, 6 mil e north of Cartersv ille ; Bass, Bream , Suckers, Cat ; M inn ow or worms; Boats; $1.50 a da y.
ETOWAH RIVER- One mile so uth of Cartersville ; Red S uckers, Blue and Yel low Cat ; Minnows or worm s; Free.
lEEL'S L AKE- Ei ght mil es north of Cartersv ille; Bass, Brea m, Cat, Suckers: Minn ows or worm s ; ( privat e lake) Free.
CLEAR LAKE- Ei ght mil es above Car

tersv ille on U. S. 41, lake on right hand side of road goin g north ; Bass, Bream, Crappie; Boat s, 1 a day.
BEN HILL COUNTY OCM LGEE RIVER- Seventeen miles northeast of Fitzgerald; P erch, Cat, Bass, Shad , Rockfi sh ; Worms or lures (Shad are cau ght only in nets) ; Free.
BOWE 'S MILL PO D- ine mil es north of Fitzgerald ; P erch, Bream, Bass, Cat ; Worm s and lures; Boats; 50 cents a day.
LAKE BEATRICE- F our and onehalf miles so uth of Fitzgerald; P erch, Bream , Bass, Cat ; Worm s and lures; Boats; 50 cents a day.
HOUSE CREEK- Seven and onehalf miles north of Fitzgerald ; P erch, Bream , Bass and Ca t ; Worm s and lures; Free.
McDONA LD ' PO D- Fifteen miles east of Fitzge rald ; Brea m, P erch, Bass and Cat ; Worms and lures; Private.
BROOKS COUNTY MILTO 'S PON D- Five miles east o f Pavo ; Bass, Speckled P erch, Jack ; Li ve minnows, speckl e fl oatin g fro g, pork rind ; Accomm odations fair ; 75 cents a day.
OKAPILCO CHEEK- Hi ghwa y 84, east of Quitman ; Bass, Red Breast P erch, Jack and Cat ; pork rind , shimmy wi gglers, speckled frogs; Free.
WITHLACOOCHEE RI VER- High wa 84, east of Quitman ; Bass, R ed Breast P erch, Jack and Cat ; Heel bu cktail , him my wigglers, speckl ed frogs, worm s, red heads ; Free.
BULLOCH COUNTY OGEECHEE HIVER- ortheast boundary line of county; Bass, Hed Breast a nd Warm outh P erch, Bream , Cat and Shad ; live bait and worms, lures; Ru sh in g Co ttages, 10 miles east of Statesboro, 2.50 week end , $10 week for co ttage, boats and fi shin g privil ege .
KEN EDY PO D- Seven mil es south of State boro; un P erch, Bream , Jack, Bass and Cat ; same bait as above; F ee, one-half of fi sh cau ght.
DELO ACH MILL PO D- Twelve miler. so utheast of Statesboro; Sun P erch, Bream , Jack, Bass and Cat ; li ve bait, worm s, lures; a rra ngement s can be made on ar ri val.

G. B. BOWEN MILL PO D- Sixteen miles so uth of Statesboro; same kinds of fi sh and bait at above ; F ee, onehalf of fi sh caught.
McNEALLY POND- Three mil es south we t of P ortal; same as above.
BIG LOTTS CREEK- Five miles southwest of Statesboro ; same fi sh and bait as above; Free, by permi ssion of owner.
BLACK CREEK- Twelve miles so uth east of Statesboro; same as above.
MILL CREEK- Three miles north east of tatesboro; same as above.
BURKE COUNTY EASON'S PO D- Keysville; P erch, Bream , Bass, Cat ; Minnows or worm s; Boat s ; $1 a day. BUTLEH'S PO D- Keysv ille; same as a bove, except fee is $1.10 a day plus 10 cents an hour for boat. OGEE CHEE ,HIVER- Mid ville ; P erch, Brea m, Bass, Cat, Jack; minnows or wo rms ; Boats, $1 a day. AVA NA H RIVEH- Sa rdi s; P erch, Bream, Ca t ; Minnows or worms; Boats ; 1 a day. BRIER CREEK- Waynesboro; P erch, Bream, Jack; Minnows or worms ; Free. BURTO 'S PO D- Midvill e; P erch; Minnows or worm s; Boats; $1 a day.
CATOOSA COUNTY
CHICKAMA UGA CHE EK- Rin ggold; Blue Cat , Bream, Bass; Worms, minnows, plu gs ; Free.
CHICKAMAU GA CREEK- Graysville; two mil es off No. 27, six mil es west of Rin ggold ; Cat, Carp, Bass, Bream ; Cut bait, minnows, lures ; Boats, 15 cents an hour ; Free.
LAKE WI EPESAUKAH - Three miles so utheast of Rossv i11e ; Bass an r' Bream; Minnows or worm s ; Boats ; 75 cents a day.
PEAVI E CREEK- Wood Station ; Bass and Bream ; Flies, wo rms; F ree.
ME ADOW LAKE- Six mil es east of Rin ggold ; Bass and Brea m.
CHICKAMAUGA CREEK- Three mil es east of Chickamau ga; Cat , Carp and Bream ; Cut bait or minnows; Free.
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O.UTDO.O.R GEORGIA . /uly 1941

FISHING CALENDAR AND

JULY

STREAM Jocks River



OPEN
. July 3 6 10.13

17 . 20

Rough Creek . July 24 -27 31

Dicks Creek Chestotee (Frogtown)

. July 24-27 . July 3 - 6

10 - 13

Boggs Creek Drainage . . . . . . . . . July 17 . 20

24.27

31

Sm ith Creek

. July 24 . 27 31

Rock Cre ek Drainage

July 3 6 10 . 13

17 . 20

Jon es Creek Drainage

. . . . . . July 24 27

31

AUGUST

Rou g h Cre ek . Cona sauga River Wildcat Creek Boggs Creek Drainage

. . . August 1. 3 7 - 10
14 - 17 August 21 -24
2B . 31 August 14 17
. 21 . 24 August 2B . 31 August 1 3

Smith Creek Drainage

August 1 3

7-10

14.17

Dicks Creek Drainage

August 21 -24

28 . 31

Jone s Creek Drainage

August 1 3

7-10

14 - 17

Noontootley Creek Drainage . . . . . . . August 21 -24

28.31

AREA Cohutta
Cohutta lake Burton Chottohoochee-
Chestotee Chottohoochee-
Chestotee Chottohoochee-
Chestotee Blue Ridge
Blue Ridge
Cohutta
Cohutta lake Burto n
ChattahoocheeChestatee
ChottahoocheeChestatee
ChattohoocheeChestatee
Blue Ridge
Blue Ridge

SEPTEMBER

Conasauga River Jocks River
Wildca t Creek Dicks Creek Drainage Chattahoochee River Drainage
Noontootley Creek Rock Creek Drainage .

September 1 . September 4 7
11 . 14 18 . 21 25.28 . September 1 . September 4 7 11 - 14 . September 4 7 11 . 14 18.21 25 . 28 September 1 .
September 4 7 11 -14 18 . 21 25 . 28 .

Cohutta Cohutta
lake Burton Chattohoochee-
Chestatee Chattahocchee-
Chestatee
Blue Ridge Blue Ridge

Rock Creek lake is open. from April 17 through September 28 on Saturday and Sunday of each week, plus Thursday and Friday during periods when Rock Creek Drainage is open, plus labor Day.
* Dotes are inclusive as fishing in streams is limited to Thursday, Friday, Saturday and
Sunday during open season for each stream, plus Labor Day for streams open that day.

REGULATIONS
INLAND FISHING
Open season on all species of fresh water fish except rainbow and brook trout in Geor g ia is June 1 through April 14 of the following year. Dates of the closed seasons are April 15-May 31. Open season in the trout waters of North Georgia is April !-November 15 outside the Georg ia Fish and Game Management Areas. In streams and lakes within the Management Area the season is April 17September 28.
The creel limit for Rainbow and Brown trout is 20 da ily; for Brook or Speckled trout it is 25 . Rainbow and Brown trout must be eight inches long and Brook must be seven inches. The limit in Management Area streams is 10 daily . There is no limit on other species of fresh water fish .
COASTAL FISHING
The season on all salt water fish e xcept Shad rema ins open the year-round . These fish may be taken from all waters January 23March 23 inclusive. Shad may be taken from the St. Mary's River from January 1 until April 20.
MANAGEMENT AREA
SIZE LIMIT- Minimum size limit for all troY! is seven inches.
CREEL LIMIT- Maximum catch in any day and maximum possession for one person is 10 of any one or all species.
FEES AND MANNER OF FISHING-Permits are $1 per person a day or $10 a season . Permits are valid on any stream or lake during the regulated season and must be obtained before fishing is begun . They must be accom panied by a state fishing license. Permits may be obtained from Wildlife Rangers cr from the following addresses:
Division of Wildlife, State Capitol, Atlanta . Forest Supervisor, U. S. Forest Service, Gainesville.
District Forest Ranger, u. s. Forest Service,
Blue Ridge.
District Forest Ranger, u. s. Forest Service,
Suches.
District Forest Ranger, u. s. Forest Service,
Clayton .
FISHING TIME- Fishing is permitted only between the hours of 5 a . m. and 7 p . m., standard time for the area concerned .
CREEL CENSUS-Fishermen are required to report their catches on a government post card addressed to the Forest Supervisor, or to the ranger at the checking station .
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* * COVER PAGES
Buddy Hazel, daring young Brunswick aviator dived his plane beautifully over the twa shrimp bots shown two miles off shore in the top front photo, making possible this remarkable aerial scene for OUTDOOR GEORGIA
readers. The lower picture of Bob White was taken
at the state quail farm. Gently held by pretty little Mary Ellen Slider, whose hand is shown, this quail bill opened, seems about to protest.
The back picture was snapped in the Okefenokee Swamp. A few seconds after the photo was taken, Mr. Gator slid gracefully into the dark swamp waters out of sight.

!fn f:kis !fssue

Let's Stop Pollution . . . .
Commission e r Zack D. Cra vey

Page
2

Conservation's Best Friend

3

W . T. Ande rson

Thor's Gold in Them Fish .

4

This Month's Recipe

4

Pine Mountain Facil ities

5

R. F. Burch

Georgia Coastal Fishing

6

Pe rry Middleton

In the Field of Geology

8

Captain Garland Peyton

Forestry Division Injects New Life in

Coastal Flatwoods .

9

Walter Dyal

Photos of Georgia Wildlife .
Joe Stea rns

10-11

Just a Dog .
Corey Ford
War Shows Great Need for Natural Resources .
James Silver

. . . . 12 . . . . 13

There Ain't No Rhyme or Reason . . . . 14
A Puzzled W ife

You Tell ' Em

15

Joe Stearns

Tucker Scouts Enjoy Movies .

15

Joe Buford's "Magic" Touch

16

Beverly Wallace

Rocky Creek Has Fins . . . . . . . . 17
Augusta Un it W .P.A . W rite rs Program

Harmless Water Snake Faces Destruction 18
Cha rles Wharton

Where and What They're Biting . . . . 19

L~t's Stop Pollution!
Many of our finest streams in Georgia have been ruined so far as fish ing is concerned, at least for the time being . Of course, there are many factors causing the present cond ition of these streams, but I believe that the greatest trouble is pollution caused by the fact that mills, dye plants, city disposal plants, packing houses, etc., are allowed to dump their refuse into these streams before it has been properly treated and run through a septic tank. This condition has not yet gone too far to be remedied, but it demands the immediate attention of all conservationists.
It would be a tragedy indeed to permit the great waters of Georgia to be abused and ruined by allowing these conditions to continue, but if proper steps are not taken soon the usefulness of muc h of our water resources will be nullified.
In 1936, I had a survey made of the condition of our streams in regard to pollution. This survey showed that in many instances literally millions of fry and fingerlings as well as adult fish were lost when apparently there was nothing wrong with the water in the stream . During this same time, a farmer reported that he had lost two cows and a check-up showed that this was caused by pollution from a certain dye plant which was dumping poisonous refuse into the stream that ran through this man's farm.
The only existing law giving the Wildlife Division jurisdiction to prosecute anyone polluting streams or waters is wholly inadequate as it is necessary for us to prove that the intent was to kill the fish. We need in Georgia a law that forbids anyone from placing or allowing to be placed in any of the waters of the State any substance injurious to fish life, regardless of what the intent is.
I want to ask the citizens of Georgia to get in touch with their State Representatives and Senators and impress upon them the necessity of passing such a law in order that we may put a stop to this terrible waste of water and fish , two of our most valuable resources .
The thickly populated industrial sections of Eastern United States allowed their untreated sewerage and industrial waste to be dumped into some of their streams until these streams could no longer be used for anything except open sewers. These same rivers were once inhabited by some of the finest fish found anywhere in the world, in addition to furnish ing excellent swimming and boating, picnicking and many other forms of recreation for the dwellers of the cities as well as those who tilled the farm lands.
We all welcome the industrial plants into our great State, but am sure I express the sentiments of 99 % of all the people of Georgia when I say that these plants should not be allowed to dissipate our natural resources, especially in view of the fact that they could by comparatively small expenditures for proper methods of handling these refuses, stop this wastefulness of water and fish .

AUGUST, 1941

OUJr JD)(Q)(Q)~ GIEO~GllA

Volume X, No. 11

JOE l. STEARNS, Managing Editor

ZACK D. CRAVEY, Editor

BEVERLY WALLACE, feature Editor

Publish ed month ly by The Georgia Division of Wildlife, 422 State Capitol, Atlan ta, Ga. , in the interest of Georgia wildlife and for fisher-
me n , hunters, n a ture lovers and conservation of n atura l resou rces. Single copy, 10 cents. Yearly s ubscriptions to U n ited States and its possessions, a n d Can ada, 75 cen ts; other count r ies, $1.50. Subscribers must notify us of change of address four weeks in adva nce of next p ublication date, giving both old and new a ddress. Con ten ts of t h is magazine must not be reprinted w ithout permission. T his magazine is glad to receive photos, drawings, stories and articles dealing with outdoor subjects, but cann ot guarantee r eturn o( unso licited contributions n or ins u re aga in st t heir loss. Contribu tion s not a ccompan ied by s ufficient postage will n ot be retu r ned. E n ter ed a s 2n d c lass m atte r Augu st 31, 1940, at the post office at Atla n ta, under t he Act of March 3, 1879.

ConJervalion ~ /JeJt ~rienJ

!JJ Cree/ anJ IJalJ Jlmil

By W. T. ANDERSON

M CH agitation !~ ~e~ng indulged as to i~1~ortance of having a "creel hm1t on fish , and a bag hm1t on game. It is beside the question to point out that the term "creel" as applied to fish is obsolete or rare. But it is quite in order to point out also the necessity for bag limits on game and fish lest the greedy-guts destroy the last vestige of the differ ent 'species, just as was done with the wild pigeon.
Two or three Hawkinsville boys were coming home about dark one evening, 50 years ago, lugging a muzzle-loading 5-foot barrel shot-g un , a 2-foot string of red birds, yellowhammers, peeker-woods, followed by a hungry dog- when we heard in the big tree above our heads the greatest commotion of flapping wings and flying creatures.
We fired our gun into the tree, and down came a cotton basketful of pigeons. There were thousands of them there apparently, and we got more with one shot than we could carry home. We never saw anything like that before, nor have we heard of nor seen anything like it since.
It was said of the wild pigeons that at one time there were so many of them they blackened the skies when they passed over. There were too many for them ever to be killed, so everybody shot into them just to see how many could be killed.
Where are they today? What has become of them?

WHAT'S THE ANSWER?

Down at the Cordele power dam they tell wonderful stories

about the fine bream that gather there under the falls for

their food- and as food for man.

I have heard at least a dozen men say they ca ught great

numbers of these "fine, fat fish," more than they knew

what to do with. Just recently a Macon man told me he caught forty there one afternoon this week in about an hour.

W. T. ANDERSON, Macon Conservationist

Another Macon man told me recently

that he caught 75 one afternoon , and had done it often.
Is there any analogy between this story and the wild pigeon? Write yo ur own answer.

and hooked a muskie. It was his first on the trip, and the only one for that boat that day. Gen. Winship remarked to me that we had no use for

plied his rule, and found 32 inches to be correct.
"Put him back," says Blanton, echoed by me (I'm always being generous with other people's fish ) .

ONE FOR THE BOOKS Talking of sportsmanship, let me tell you a story you shall not believe.

that fish, that the fun of fishing was in the fight, and asked if we shouldn't turn him loose.

Our guide dipped a crocus sack into the water, wrapped it around the muskie, and pro-

In the conservation trip Gov. Talmadge made recently into Wisconsin, General Blanton Winship of Macon caught a 32-inch muskie. The "creel" limit in Wisconsin on muskies is one muskie per day per man in the boat, and nothing under 30 inches can be kept.
Gen. Winship was casting with the ordinary rod and reel,

I replied "by all means." It would be a shame to take that fish and let him die here in the boat, when we have all the fish we can use. If we put him back we might have the fun of catching him again."
Our guide remarked, "He is legal all right, 32 inches, and the law is 30 inches." With that the guide ap

ceeded to take the hooks out of his mouth, which required about 5 minutes. Upon return ing the fish to the water he turned belly up and floated about. The guide said the fish was too far gone to live, that we had better keep him.
" o, give him time," said Blanton to me.

(}eorg-ian:J :Jhri//ed r/J'f Re:Jpiration Act

The guide reached over the edge of the boat into the water, and caught the fish, setting him right side up.

Stag-ed r/J'f W:Jcon:Jin Warden

The guide began stroking the fi sh (Continued on Page 18 )

OUTDOOR GEORGIA Au.gust 1941

3
J

u Thar 's Gold In Them THIS MONTH'S

Fish-$100 Worth If

RECIPE ~

They're Sturgeon

Auditor Patillo in the State Capi tol Building spends most of his spare time fi shing either in or near salt water. Brother Patillo just will not be satisfied with fish the size of yo ur hand. He likes to fight it out with the big boys.
Recently Mr. Patillo amazed the Wildlife Division with his true story of a Mr. Davis who hauled in a stur geon from the Altamaha River. The sturgeon was sold at well over $100. One fish , mind yo u, brings over $100. It seems the sturgeon contained about 45 pounds of caviar which sold at $2.50 per pound. Who wants to go fi shin g?
TRY THIS ONE If yo u would like to drop in on a great fishing hole, try Laurel S. Walker Park about 10 miles out of Waycross. The lake is teeming with bass, bream, perch, and you can haul in an eel now and then. But don 't go there to fish except on Monday and Thursday. All other days, the fish are busy bringing up their families. Allowing only two days a week might explain why so many fish are still there. Supervisor of Park Garriso n will furnish details.
OUR CRITICS Critics come in several classes. We are proud of the critics who set out constructively to help us do a better job and suggest ways and means to accomplish it. The type of critic in mind now is the professional who has had his toes stepped on, his feelings hurt, or is nursing a grudge or even the fellow so prejudiced by his politics as to see nothing worth while in mankind. He is the pot who calls the kettle black. You know the type who investigates nothing, invents compli cations, strains himself to see a gnat while sitting in a seat with a camel and who will write the first thing to come to his mind without regard for truth.
But let's not be too harsh with these critics. After all the Good Lord made, along with this type fellow, weasels, rats, sandRys, snakes, wart hogs, cockroaches, lice, skunks, fleas, ticks, grub worms, chiggers, beetles, ants, wee.vels, and hornets, and He
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placed them in this world so the real people, after associating with them, would know happin ess when it came along later.
CHARLIE-MY BOY!
Charles Wharton , who wrote the article on snakes in another section of this issue, is a yo ung man with man y talents. Charles is splendid at taxidermy and most of the specimens; in the State Capitol museum speak well of his ability. Charles will con tribute man y other interesting ar tides for Outdoor Georgia readers in the future.
PARKS POPULAR
State Parks are more popular this year than ever before in their his tory. Two weeks ago at Vogel on Sat urday and Sunday, it looked a bit like Coney Island. Georgia people seem to be really taking advantage of the fa cilities our parks offer.
SOME OF THIS AND THAT
Rangers have found some violators who use old truck tires as fish traps. If these schemers would use their thoughts along more useful lines, there is no telling how many new in ventions would get on the market . . . Buddy Hazel, ace flyer and in structor at Brunswick, likes to take passengers over the islands and show them herds of deer. It's a beautiful sight from the air . . . Louis An drews, the Savannah patrolman, is doing a great job ... Andrews has won the friendship and respect of the commercial fishermen in his section. In addition to sticking strictly to busi ness and upholding the laws, An drews is a jolly good fellow. A rare combination but valuable on the coastal area . . . Henry Green and Jesse Williams, Atlanta fishermen, will swear by the Okefenokee. They had a great time on their recent trip to the Swamp and expect to go back again at the first opportunity . . . Carson Smith isn't any too fond of navigation after his recent jaunt into the deep water off Saint Simons in a speed boat. Carson would be much happier on a long hike in the moun tains.

Many readers wrote in to say the recipe on corned fish stew made a delightful dish. OUTDOOR GEORGIA published this recipe last month. The August dish we suggest is :
CORNED FISH CAKES 3 Cups of flakes prepared from
boiled corned fish or a lean white meat variety, care being taken to remove ALL bones 3 Cups fin ely diced boiled pota toes 3 Eggs beaten l Tbsp. butter or cooking oil
14 Tsp. pepper
Flour
Break the flak es to small pieces and mix with the potatoes and eggs. H eat th e butter (or oil) , add pepper and mix thoroughly with solids. Form into flat cakes not over l inch thick, cover these with fl our and fry in cooking oil. If desired the egg may be omitted and % cup fin ely chopped onions added.
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06lfTHORPf
3-totef
BRUNSWICK
On Coastal Georgia
where all sports abounJ
Your catch or your kill cooked to perfection for your dinner, with the Management's compliments
OWNER MANAGEMENT
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OUTDOOR GEORGIA August 1941

HERE IS A PICNIC SCENE YOU WILL SEE ANY PRETTY SUNDAY AT PINE MOUNTAIN

Ane mountain ~acilitie:J Wn man'~ ~rien~

PI E MO TAl tate Park, between Chipley and Warm Springs, is experiencing its banner season this ummer. The number of people visiting the area this year is far in excess of the visitors in any previous ea on and this Department is receiving numero us compliments on the appearance of the park and its operation . The Tavern, with over-night accommodations and leased to Mrs. A.
J. Roberts, is proving to be the head -
quarter for Pine Mountain State Park visitors. It may be difficult for orne 1orth Georgia people to realize that it reall y gets cool at night at thi park. It is aLnost too chilly to dine on the Tavern terrace at night, although scores of people do every eveni ng .
Mrs. Roberts is a charming hoste s and serves such delicious food that the people are really in the proper mood after a meal at the Tavern to enjoy the beauties of the park while there and to sing its praises when they return home. An evening meal on the terrace is a delightful experience, presenting an incomparable view overlooking Pine Mountain

By R. F. BURCH
Director of State Parks
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Valley, under the glamour of the stars and cooled by evening breezes.
We feel this park is doing more than any of our other parks in providing recreation for our soldier s, this being due largely to the proximity of this park to Columbus and Fort Benning, and many of the officer s and non-coms from Fort Benning are taking advantage of the r ecr eational facilities offer ed h er e. This is proving to b e right in line with defense activities we take great pride in being able to cooperate in this movement. At the sam e time this park is more than ever the favorite m eeting place
:Jo

for various clubs and r eligious and civic organizations from n earby cities of LaGrange, West Point, Manchester , Newnan, Greenville, Hamilton, Columbus and Chipley.
T he lake area is leased to Mr. A. C. Dunn and he reports many lzaak Waltons tr yi ng their luck in the lake and that the cabins and picnic areas near the lake have been a so urce of much enj oymen t to the many visitors and guests. The above picture is an indication of the extensive way the people are usi ng the picnic grounds.
In addition to the above m entioned pleasures, another outstanding feature of Pine Mountain State Pa1k this season is the Parkway across the ridge of the mountain from Tip Top by the Tavern to Warm Springs, Georgia. This drive is now asphalted the entire distance and affords the visitors to Pine Mountain a beautiful drive to the nearb y Warm Springs Foundation, golf course and Little White House.
The eason is yo ung and those
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OUTDOOR GEORGIA August 1941

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GEORGIA COASTAL FISHING ONE 0

Many Shrimp Boats Poised For Dash Into Sounds August 1st

By PERRY MIDDLETON, Director of Coastal Area

F ISHI G methods along the Geor gia coast have kept pace with the times. Man y of the old timers can remember back when fi shermen depended on small hand baskets for catchin g crabs and small hand thrown cast nets for gathering shrimp.
Toda y the modern shrimp and crab boats churn the waters with power ful motors and pull along nets be hind them that will stretch out as much as 110 feet. The best shrimp boats, could , if necessar y eros the ocean.
Georgia' s shrimp and crab business represents one of the

state's most valuable industries. In July shrimp prices leap ed up to 35c per pound, the highest, according to veteran buyers from Eastern markets, in the past 12 year s.
Hundreds of boats made ready the last part of July for the dash into the sounds. This is forbidden grounds and jealously guarded by Georgia Coastal patrolm en. August l the sounds will open and boats will har vest a tremendou crop of shrimp. Where the various packing houses now are hand ling little more than 1,000 pounds per day, they expect
He re you will see the four steps to mode rn crab a nd shrimp operations. The little fellow in No. J show how crabs were caught years ago in a little hand-operated wire basket. Not e t he two rop es suspe nded from th e boat in No. 2. This boot is dragging a huge net . Afte r two hours the net is hauled up as shown in No. 3 . Picture 4 shows what they bring up a fter the two hour drag . It is a bo ut 500 pounds of crabs and shrimp . Circle photo shows a few of the thousands of crabs caught daily off Georgia coa st. (Pictures by Joe Stearns .)

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to be handling several thousands.
Shrimp leave various shipping poin ts alon g Coastal Georgia daily in refri gera tor trucks headed for ew York. Buyers are constantly near the packing houses making purchases for the Eastern markets. One buyer was asked, " What in the world does New York do with so many shrimp? " The an swer explains all, as he inform yo u that within the radius of 100 miles of ew York yo u will find mi llions of people anxious to buy thi seafood .
Boats do not exactly confine their activities to shrimp, crabs and oys ter . Each ni ght fi shermen unload man y hundreds of pounds of whiting, croakers, fl ounders and man y other desirable food fi sh.
Often for amusement the crab and shrimp boat fisher-

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OUTDOOR GEORGIA August 1941

STATE'S MOST IMPORTANT INDUSTRIES

**** * men will toss oYer a large book, properly baited and haul
in a shark. The fishermen strongly dislike sharks and destroy them at eYery oppor-
tunity.
The average observer is amazed at a day's catch of crabs. The sparkling blue, belligerent crabs seem to fill up the huge packin g houses. Bronzed workers toss them about with large shovels. The crabs are_ cooked alive in large steam vats whiCh hold well over 1,000 per cooking. Dozens of women, dressed spotlessly in white undergo a sterilization process every 45 minutes. Their duties consist of shucking crabs or as most of us know it better, separate the delicious meat from the shells. Sam S. Lewis operates the largest crab factory in the South an d ships crab meat from coast to coa t- all from Geo rgia waters. Lewis factor y handles 30,000 dozen crab daily.
Up to the minute shrimp canning factories in Savannah, Darien, Brunswick and St. Mar ys employ hundreds of workers during the canning season. There is no guess work in the fi shing industry. Experts man the boats and use of the expensive nets and machines take the seafood from the

30,000 Dozen Crabs Handled Daily By Brunswick Factory

ocean to the can s and hence to yo ur salad or cocktail.
From t h e h a r d boiled, rugged sailors to the factory owners you will find these coastal people friendly, pa tient and constantly willing to cooperate on eyery occasion. Visitors are politely received and taken step by step along each process. A visit to Brunswick or Savannah serves not only as a splendid education on coastal fishing hut works in nicely along with plans for vacations. Tourist and vacationist who have not made up their minds about August would do well to see Georgia's thriving sea coast fishing activities.

Dozens of boats are available to take visitors out deep sea fi shing and even a fair fi shermen can do well just standing along the pier with a hook and line. o license is required for salt water fi shing except for commercial fi shermen.
The offices of Di vision of Wildlife of the Coastal Area is in the Oglethorpe Hotel at Brunswick. E. S. Dill, Secretary and Office Manager, and Charlie DeLoach, Patrolman at Brunswick and Louis Andrews, at Savannah understand and know coastal fi shing as well as any men in Georgia. The state maintains speedboats which patrol the fi shing waters regularly and even the use of airplanes has been employed to keep close scrutiny on possible deep sea fi shing violations.

No. 6 - Shrimp and crab operations for the day ore over. Now the fishermen spread their nets to dry . Nos. 7 and 8 ore some of the boots just trying up to dock to unload their day's catch and to prepare for another daylight dash bock into the deep water. Those ice pocked boxes you see in photo No. J0 ore filled with shrimp . Each box is worth $30 or more depending on the demand. A few minutes after these pictures were taken, these boxes were loaded into refrigerated trucks and on the way to New York . Many fishermen operate independently with boots not much larger than the boots you see on most any river. Here in No. 9 you see o basket of crabs on individual sold to a factory at so-much per pound. All
pictures were taken off the Georgia coast from Brunswick to Savannah .

OUTDOOR GEORGIA Artgrtst 1941

7

IN THE FIELD OF GEOLOGY

ONE of th e questions most frequently asked the Division of Mines, Mining and Geology, is " does Georgia have gas and oil in commercial quantities? "
The answer as yet is unkno wn but it is the concensus of the technical staff of the Division that gas and oil will be discovered in commercial quantities somewhere in the Coastal Plain of this state. The similarity of the formations in this section of Georgia to those in Mississippi, which are producing petroleum, gives u cau se to justify this belief.
Intermittent efforts have been made during the past 35 years to prospect for oil in Georgia and it will he recalled that Governor Talmadge referred to the desirability of discovering it and gas in Georgia during his last gubernatorial campaign.
In the maj orit y of instances, ho wever , either the finances or equip-

By Captain (}arlanJ Peyton
DIRECTOR OF MINE S
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ment, or both , have been inadequate with the re ult that on only two occasions have the sediments in the coastal plain been penetrated to the basement rocks. In numerous Instances oil showings have been obtained, some of which were relatively near the surface.
FIND OIL TRAPS Generally speakin g, prospecting fo r oil in Georgia will call for an overall outlay of money in considerable quantity. In the first place, the geology of the region should be given

adequate detailed consideration before an y other move is made. This should be followed by geophysical prospecting in order to locate the most promising structures which might constitute oil traps. Having conducted the preliminary geologic and geophysical work, it then becomes a j ob for the driller. If the drilling is to extend to great depth, it naturally would be a j ob for the maj or companies, with adequate drilling equipment, etc. If the drilling is to extend only to nominal depths, it might be undertaken by independent drillers, but in any case
the equipment and finances should be adequate before drilling is undertaken.

minej 2:Jivijion Believej (}eol'ljia fia j (}a j anJ Oi/ in Commel'cia/ Quanliliej

The Division of Mines, Mining and Geology maintains an oil geologist on its technical staff. In addition, we have obtained the coopera tive efforts of the U. S. Geological Survey in a study of the structures and other geo logic features in the Coastal Plain. It has b een our policy to cooperate with both individuals and companies who are interested in any phase of prospecting for oil in Georgia.
We have stationed a member of our staff at the cen e of the d rilling when wells have been put down, to a ist in checki no- the formation drilled throu gh , as well as to obtain all po sible da ta resultin g therefro m. Obvio u ly, this type of informa tion is valu able to u and to the State from many angle . W e are a nxiou to encourage and to cooper ate in any man ner po sible which wi ll tend to furth er a healthy development along these lin es.

Prospecting for oil at great depth in the Coastal Plain of Georgia with a modern rotary drill.

ST DY WATE R R ESO RCE
The Divi ion of Mine , Mining and Geology, ha entered into a cooperative agreement wi th th e . S. Geological urvey to match doll a r fo r
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OUTDOOR GEORGIA August l!M-1

Forestry Division Injects
New Life In Coastal Flatwoods

By WALTER DYAL
Director of Forestry
,liTER securing option on a suf-
f t ficient area to insure adequate
land on which to carry on their development program, the Federal Government began in 1936 to purchase what is now the Coastal Flatwoods Land Use Area.
Today, this area consists of 37,771 acres located about ten miles southeast of Waycross, Georgia, extending into the Okefenokee Swamp to the South, and bounded by U. S. Route
o. 84 on the north, with U.S. Route No. 1 runni ng through the area. The land purchased consisted mainly of areas on which there was a slight possibility of any private owner realizing a substantial income in the near future.
Consideration was given to the lack of marketable products and the long period before substantial revenue could be realized, and few private owners could afford such long term investments. Also this section of the State needed an area where wildlife and other natural assets could be protected and kept in a productive state. Also the varied use of the area provides the people in the surrounding territory some place to go for various forms of recreation, such as fishin g, cam ping, picnicking, boating, sight seeing, etc.
PRIOR to Octoher 5, 1938, the area was in its major development stage. At this time the land already acquired was turned over to the State Department of Natural Resources under a long term Cooperative and License Agree ment. The area to be managed hy the State with development by the Federal Government to eontinue until July 1, 1940, when the State Department of Natural Resourees assumed eomplete eontrol and respon sibility for management as provided in the agreement.
During the development stage of the area, of co urse, forest fire control was a necessary plan of management. Along with fire protection and the pla nting of approximately 700,000 slash pine seed lings. it became well stocked with slash and long leaf pines.

cA.rea Flourishing, Fire Menace..; Now Under Control

Two Parks-one known as the "Laura Walker Park," and the other "Swamp Park",-were developed with a 120-acre lake at Laura Walker Park and access to the Okefenokee Swamp at the Swamp Park. A work center, consisting of a dwelling, work shop, garage, deep well, and water tank ; three tower units each consistin g of a tower, dwelling, barn, garage, chicken house, hog house, well, and fenced garden patch ; and three workers Units, consisting of a dwelling, garage, barn, well, chicken house, and fenced in garden spot, were constructed.
55 MILES OF FENCE
In addition approximately 55 miles of fence was used on the area with plan s to make ten (10) pastures available for use by local farmers and cattlemen. A portion of one being sodded in pasture grasses and thereby greatly improved. Seventy-five miles of roads and 600 miles of 10 and 20 feet firebreaks were constructed , making the greater part of the area read-

ily accessible for marketing, fire con trol work, and recreation.
During this development stage approximately 45 miles of telephone lines were construct~d and 14 telephones installed, and the Division of Forestry later having constructed 14 additional miles, making 59 miles of line now in use on the Project.
In developing it was necessary, of course, for the Federal Government to have lumber and trees to build the various buildings and other improvements. The main portion of this was cut from the area, leaving it practically depleted of any immediate marketable forest products other than fuel wood and a small amount of "worked out" of turpentined timber of which a small portion may be used for saw logs, small poles, and the rest for fuel wood.
It is to be expected that with a practical plan of management, this
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This blaze destroying man y valuable trees is shown well on its cleslructive woy in the Coastal Areo. A match carelessly lossecl aside, or a lightecl cigarette or some innocent camper who clicl not moke sure his fire wos out, uncloubteclly wos the source of this blaze. Stole Forestry effortt ore clirectecl to hole/ such happenings os this to the very minimum.

OUTDOOR <;EOR(;JA Augu~t 1941

9

~Daovwe n

in the been

bury

Hollywood movie people

Swamp W.oter" lro,.

for the new flicker

Be//. No. J show

by Georgia's own Vereen

wiJh his clog . This ;;:-;.. nclrews, star of the picture,

men reocly lor wodc ... NO 6 showing the camera

recently . No. 2 sh . _ n in the Okelenokee Swamp

n,.""'- form
fox

is one/

playing other

prine0d~ .,.

IP/enclicl Georg ia

port the 's wile/ t

stole urkey

quail stock.

our wile/ turke y. fellows who soon

will

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vo played h-- havoc with own here ore healthy little

ers Charlie BorreH (

y to release. No. 3 - Rang

show o barre/ net

) and Will Shirley proudly

recently. In photo ;:

from the Oostonoulo River

ore shown getting 0. 4 e visiton at Pine Mountain

scenery showing

in the bo 19 dee r

ck~~.~ ......N, owith5

the beautiful mountain - This unusual picture

u.fa1lalonwd

near 8run.swwica6s: ..... . Convoy/ Ma ...

from hite

an deer

aeropIone over on ore German white

the way to salet ,... ..., Papa Mallard defiantly lead

snapped at Pine J.... or

/iHie ones in photo No. 7

lineup on pier at St11,.,.1th. No. 8 ..,.. Here's the doily

Wildlife

Island. . .. (All pictures by

her Joe Stearns.)

" - - - - - - - - - - REPRINTED FROM FEBRUARY 1941 - - - - - - - - - - J I ' ISSUE OF FIELD AND STREAM

Ray P. Holland Editor of Field & Stream New York, N.Y.

Freedom, New Hampshire November 24, 1940

Dear Ray:

I KNOW this is a kind of unusual request; but I'd like to borrow some space in your columns to write an open letter to a man I do not know. He ma y read it if it is in your columns; or some of his friends may notice his name and ask him to read it. You see, it has to do with ~port-a certain kind of sport.

The man's name is Sherwood G. Coggins. That was the name on his hunting license. He lives at 1096 Lawrence Street, in Lowell. He says he is in th e real estate and insurance business in Lowell.

This week-end, Mr. Coggins, you drove up into New Hampshire with some friends to go deer hunting. You went hunting on m y property here in Free dom. You didn't ask my permission; but that was all right. I let people hunt on my land. Only, while you were hunting, you shot and killed my bird dog.

Oh, it was an accident, of course. You said so yourself. You said that you saw a flick of something in the bushes, and you shot it. All you saw was the flash of something moving. and you brought up your rifle and fired. It might have been another hunter. It might have been a child running through the woods. As it turned out, it was just a dog.

Just a dog, Mr. Coggins. Just a little English setter I have hunted With for quite a feW yearS. Just a SHEILA . BEAUTIFUL SETTER OWN ED BY L. H . L YLE . little female Setter WhO WaS Ver y OF ATLANTA .A~~~:;:!Y~NOGGA~~~~~~SE D IN TH E
proud and staunch on point, and who always held her head high, and whose eyes had the brown of October in them. We had hunted a lot of alder thickets and apple orchards together, the little setter and I. She knew me, and I knew her, and we liked to hunt together. We had hunted woodcock together this fall, and grouse, and in another week we were planning to go down to Carolina together and look for quail. But yesterday morning she ran down in the fields in front of my house, and you saw a flick in the bushes, and you shot her.

You shot her through the back, you said, and broke her spine. She crawled out of the bushes and across the field toward you , dragging her hind legs. She was coming to you to help her. She was a gentle pup, and nobody had ever hurt her, ahd she could not understand. She began hauling herself toward you, and looking at you with her brown eyes, and you put a second bullet through her head. You were sportsman enough for that.

I know you didn't mean it, Mr. Coggins. You felt very sorry afterward.

You told me that it really spoiled your deer huntino0- the rest of the dav. It

spoiled my bird hunting the rest of a lifetime.

'

At least, I hope one thing, Mr. Coggins. That is why I am writing you. I

hope that you will remember how she looked. I hope that the next time you

raise a toward

rifle you

to your across

shoulder the field ,

you will see with blood

her over running

ftrhoemsihgherts,mdorua~uhgianngdhedroswelnf

her white chest. I hope you will see her eyes.

I hope you will always see her eyes, Mr. Coggins, whenever there is a flick

in the bushes and you bring yo ur rifle to your shoulder before you know what

is there.

COREY FORD.

GEOLOGY
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dollar State and Federal funds for the purpose of conducting an investigatio~ into the water resources of the State. This investigation involves stream gaging, underground water supply study, salinity of Savannah River water, and chemical analysis of samples of water from various places in the State, including all municipalities with 2500 or more inhabitants. This investigation is conducted by representatives of the U. S. Geological Survey. Mr. F. M. Bell, District Engineer, is in charge of the Atlanta office.
Among services available to the citizens and property owners of Georgia, through the staff and facilities of :he Georgia Division of Mines, Mining and Geology, are the following:
(l) Free consultation regarding the development of any mineral deposit in its early stages and prior to the stage of regular commercial operation .
(2 ) Free identification of mineral specimens, together with advice and opinions regarding the valu e of such minerals.
(3 I Free laboratory analyses of samples of rocks, minerals and water taken from Georgia mineral de posits .
(4 ) The Division maintains a reference library containing some lS.OOO technical publications covl' r i n ~ geology and mining in its 'ari ous phases all over the world .
IS I The Division cooperates in man y educati onal efforts designed to give the citizens of Georgia a better understanding of Georgia's min erals. This cooperation takes the form of tech nical articles written for magazines and periodicals, lectures, radio talks, and the main tenance of our porti on of an edu cational mu eum . Also we prepare for di tributi on to the different institutions of learnin g, sch ool museum collecti ons of the common rocks and min erals found in Georgia, to be used in conn ection with their studies of the State's resources. In general , we tr y to cooperate with the citizens, mineral producers, min e .and mill operators, in an y and '?very manner which might prove helpful in the program of the utilization of Georgia's min eral raw materials.
SURE BET Jn deer hunting if you can't see his
horn s she hasn't any .

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OUTDOOR GEORGIA Augu8t 19>41

WjR SHOWS GRE jT NEED 11



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Georg-ia HighlyFav?ra~le
For Abundant vVddltfe

By JAMES SILVER Regional Director
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service

FOR NATURAL RESOURCES

I F' THE last World War and the prese~t one have taught us a~ y thin u it IS the g reat value to a ahon of ~atural reso urces. World-wide wars show up the real strength of a ation and prove that to those most richly endowed go the victory in the fi nal analysis. The United States leads the world in richness of essential resources but only following the last World War did we awaken to the fact that we were squandering our resources at an alarming rate. In recent years therefore, there has been a great awakening in this co untry and we have beco me conservation-
mi nded. Today, wherever yo u go, yo u find
people planning. They are planning for civic improvements, for public works, bu t most important, they are planning to con erve our natu ral reources.
When people began to take stock of our natural resources, many were surprised to find that far from least in import ance were our wildife resources and as a result, almost every planning group in Amer ica today is taking into serious account the planning for the conser vation and management of wildlife r esources.
Wildlife reso urces are highly important th ro ughout the nited States but in no section of our countr y does wildlife reach the extent of import ance that it does in the South. I n no other section does so large a percentage of the people depend upon wildlife for recreation , sustenance, and li velihood a in the South. There is good reason for thi s condition in that no other ection is o well adapt ed fo r upportin g an ab undan ce of wildlife a is th e South.
RI CHLY ENDOWE D
Th is i demonstrated by the fact that men of mea ns from all over the country are co ming to Georgia in increa ing n um ber to purchase plan tations for the sole purpose of hu ntin g quail, turkey, waterfowl, dove a nd ?eer. They have fo und out that it I only neces ar y to provide protection and a planned harvest and 1ature 1 ill do the re t. Georgia has the climate, the foo d, and the cover nece sary for a n abundant wildlife, but Georgia has been guilty of not takin u

care of her wildlife reso urces with the result that the state has only a fraction of the wildlife that it is capable of producing and maintaining.
Estimates of waterfowl have been made and the figures show that Georgia has an extremely small proportion of the 65,000,000 waterfowl estimated to migrate from the northlands for the purpose of wintering i n t h e southern United States. However, the ducks like the tourists for the most part, hi-tail it trough the state of Georgia to settle for the winter in Florida or points farther south because there has not been provided places sufficiently attractive to entice them to stop over.
As a result, very few Geo rgia po rtsmen get the opportunity of waterfowl hunting. In fact durin g the past fiscal year only 2500 duck stamps were sold which is a reliable index of the number of waterfowl hunters in the state. Th is is co mpared to the 120,000 sold in the state of Minnesota fo r the sa me year and yet practically all of the Minnesota d ucks winter in the So uth . Georgia is one of the best watered states in the Uni on. It has an abu nd-

ance of perma nent rivers and creeks. Unfortunately, however , most of these streams are silt-laden so that fishing, except in the mountains and along the coast, is ver y poor. Georgia abounds with opportunities for the construction of dams to impound water which would furnish numerous ponds and lakes of clear water for fi shing, swimming, boating, and hunting, to say nothing of the effect on the stabilization of water levels and the conservation of soils. In addition to the sport a nd recreation co ncerned with fi shing, a large percentage of the Georgia rural folks, both colored and white, obtain an important part of their sustenance through fi shing. In times of war, food always beco mes a problem and at such time fi sh assume much greater importance in the food suppl y of the people than in normal times.
Georgia produces a great quantity of furs, principally raccoon, opossum, skunks, mink, and otter. At one time also, Georgia produced great numbers of the most valuable of all furs-beaver. There are a few isolated colonies of the Carolina b eaver still left in the state.
(Continued on Page 14 )

Female mallard rescued by law -enforce ment officers c f th e U. S . B'olog ical ~ u rv ey on December 30, 1937, from illegal trap on Chesconne ssex marsh in Virginia being banded before release . The bands are used in studying migratory habits of waterfowl.

OUTDOOR GEORGIA A ugust 1941

13

no 5here Jlin i Rh'~me or (Or Is His Face Red?)

By a Pu:r;:r;led Wife
I F husbands had to put up at home with the discomforts furnished at fishing camps the divorce courts soon would double their business.
And the puzzling part about it is they LOVE it-away from home.
Take, for instance, the grump-box who bellows "Why doesn't someone look after things around this house?" if the hot water runs tepid before he gets his morning shower. Yet on camp he beats his chest and dances in sheer enjoyment under an icy shower. Or even more puzzling, he still thinks it's "the life" if the bathroom consists of a leaky basin and spigot under a tree.
And what makes him wisecrack "I don't know what you modern girls would do without a can opener" yet relish a giant bowl of canned baked beans at camp? And why does he mutter "this slop isn't fit to drink" if his coffee isn't just right, yet out on a fishing party he gulps down grounds and all and vows there's nothing like it.
At home his bed must be soft and springy but out with the boys he feels like a million after a night on an ironing board-like cot with a two-

inch rag mattress. And it's beyond all understanding why he gets up cross as a bear with a sore paw but is chipper as a lark when he's piling out before daybreak, in the middle of the night you might say, to pick up his rod and reel.
At home it's pure carelessness on SOMEBODY'S part when a fly or mosquito annoys the Master. But out in a boat or on the bank he boasts "I'm too tought for these babies" and lets them gnaw in utter disregard.
At home everyone must consider the poor dear's nerves and it's worth anyone's life to forget he's had a hard day at the office. But on camp? He's the life of the party and the louder the jokes, laughter and general banging around, the better. He's one "grand guy" to all the fellows.
And how it is he can't understand why the household budget can't be reduced at least two-thirds or resist a caustic remark about "and you paid that much for a hat that looks like that?" Yet he never remembers the thrift lecture about "money doesn't grow on trees" when he pays $15 for a tussle with a rainbow or to land a two-inch bass.
And another puzzling thing is how

Need for Natural Resources
(Continued from Page 13 ) Some of these have recently been moved on to Federal refuges and it has been demonstrated that they recover very quickly under proper protection. The same is true of most forms of wildlife. They will respond very quickly under Georgia conditions if given the opportunity. We cannot have an abundance of deer so long as dogs are permitted to run loose at all times to harry the deer to the extent that reproduction is impossible; nor

can we have game of any kind unless we carefully conserve an ample breeding stock to produce a surplus for harvesting. This of course means management and planning. It means long-term plans carried through to successful conclusion. Fortunately for Georgia, guess work has been eliminated by the successful culmination of planned wildlife control in other states. There is no doubt but what an abundance of wildlife can be returned to Georgia through proper planning.

his outlook on things changes when he gets into his old pants and picks up his tackle. Generally he's an honest person and declares those little white lies as "downright dishonest". But just watch out when he starts to give you the measurement or weight on those fish he caught!
Yes, it's all very puzzling. I can't understand it, especially when he comes home with a three days growth of beard, dirty, worn to a frazzle and sunburned as a lobster- and no fish!
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OUTDOOR GEORGIA Attgust 1941

By JOE STEARNS

Our readers are very generous. A

~0.,.~0c0eudisveemdaalalnnydof

" tall" tales. while we WJ
them, . we

have been ll be unable will use as

many as space permits.

My old pal Rick Altobelli, of Sa-

vann ah sends thi s one in and calls

it "Nature Lover."

He stood on the stern of the

promenade deck as the ship slip-

ped merrily along the water, and

admired a graceful sea gull as it

hovered, swooped and dipped to

recover some hits of food that

had been thrown overboard from

the galley.

"Oi," said Ahe, "Vat a pretty

pigeon!"

"That's a gull," said a more

experienced traveler with scorn.

"Hit makes no difference for

me--boy or gull it still is a pret

ty pigeon," Ahe snapped.

~

Charlie DeLoach, patrolman in the coastal area, aviator , pilot of most any kind of boat with a motor, will tum deathly pale at the sight of a nake. Here is a stor y that has followed Charlie many years and even though he would like to forget ithe will laugh right along with yo u when it is told.
. Years ago as a boy Charlie worked Jn the tu rpen tine industry. One day while alone Charlie was sure he saw a snake trail in the grass. He bent over very low to investigate. At that momen t a wasp bit Charlie on the ear. He groaned, " Oh, my goodness, I'm snake bit," after which he staggered along a few feet and collapsed in the and. He clutched for a stick and scribbled in the sand, "Killed by a snake." Charlie, now terrified, lay

down in the grass to await death. His imagination was extremely vivid and his ear hurt. He remembered how hogs would kick their legs in death and occasionally Charlie kicked hisso sure was he that his min utes were numbered. This sort of thing went on for about four hours. After deciding death had passed him up, and too, feeling the pangs of hunger, Charlie got up and walked home. His brother uncovered these facts later and does Charlie's face get red when this story starts!
* * * Attention Aviators
One more for Lem Griffis. A friend asked Lem why he did not have any aerial photo maps of the Okefenokee Swamp. Lem sadly shook his head and said "Aw Gee we could never do that. You see, the shadow of the ship would bog down in the Swamp and stall the plane."
* * * Meeting Him Half-way
Dr. Howard Hailey, of Atlanta, sticks to this one for his favorite fi sh story:
Two sportsmen were talking. One declared, "You know I once caught a fish that weighed 115 pounds." The other gentleman snapped, "That's nothing. Once I was fi shing close to an old shipwreck. I pulled up my hook and there was a lantern on it with the light still burning." Number one, admitting defeat, stated, " I'll tell you what I'll do. If yo u blow out that darn light, I'll take a 100 pounds off my fi sh .' ~
~ ~ ~
The Jf/ orm Turns
Tom Slider , Atlanta sportsman, tells about the moonshiner who was watching a fellow in a boat making a desper ate effort to catch fish. The moonshiner exhausted his patience and finall y said, " Mister, if you really want to catch some fi sh, just pour a little of my corn squeezings on yo ur red wiggler and yo u'll get 'em."
The fi sherman pulled up his long red wiggler and poured a little of the white lightning on it and returned his h ook to the water. Shortly after he pulled up his hook and the red wiggler had a strangle-holt on a 9 pound bass and was beatin g it to death with its tail.

Tucker Scouts Enioy Wildlife
Movies
Four new film s have reached the Division of Wildlife and are ready to be shown over the state by the Educational Director. The films recently were shown to the Boy Sco uts, of Tucker and were received enthusiastically. Two of the films show the workings and home life of beavers. It is believed that the showings of these films will do more to help the beaver situation in Georgia than anything in the past.
One film deals with game bird farming and vividly explains correct ways to handle and care for quail. The other film gracefully unfurls the histor y of Georgia and shows the beauty of the various state parks. The work of the CCC boys in the state parks is brought into the film splendidly.
PINE MOUNTAIN
(Continued from Page 4 ) who have not yet experienced the joys to be found at Pine Mountain State Park should take advantage of these recreational opportunities offered for their pleasure by visiting this park and staying overnight.
Many celebrities have visited Pin e Mountain and were delighted to fin d such beautiful scenery. Only recently the Pan-American League of Atlanta entertain ed Senora Dolores deMorin-
~i"ar~oa;cyiwowuifsiethSoefannotrhaeelasPabiordersaoitdefenPptiinconeifcM.PoaTurhnae--
tain , " It is a beautiful place. And such scener y !"
Tourist, man y of them, often use Pine Mountain facilities overnigh t in preference to city accommodations and all of them have been highly pleased to have favored the Mountain.
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OUTDOOR GEORGIA Artgu st 1941

15

JOE BUFORD'S "Mlllil[" TOUl:H WITH OUAIL GETS RESULTS

811 8~ Wallace
FEATURE EDITOR
A YO E can raise Bobwhite quail domestically but not everyone can have anything like good luck with them.
One person however who does have the "green hand" with raising quail is Joe Buford who lives near Dallas in Paulding county. Last season out of 30 eggs set under bantam hens, he raised to maturity 29 birds and that, so far as Wildlife Director Zack D. Cravey is able to learn , is something of a record among amateur propagators.
This season Joe had 20 out of 23 eggs to hatch and although the baby quail (at this writing) are very yo ung, there hasn 't been a fatality yet. Because the Wildlife Division is carrying on an extensive propagation program this summer. Director Cravey is anxious to pass on to others the methods Joe Buford has so successfully used.
The Division is distributing 40,000 eggs which are produced at the State Game Farm on Briarcliff road near Atlanta. The settings (of 15 eggs each) are given to 4-H and FFA club members, farmers, sportsmen and conservation groups who have suitable land for them. Each recipient agrees to release the birds when they are from six to eight weeks old in fields or woods which have sufficient food and cover. They agree also to prohibit hunting on that land for a year or more so that the birds will have opportunity to reproduce. In addition, the Division distributed in July 2,000 day-old quail which likewise are to he released at the proper age.
Joe, like most farmers and others who raise quail on a small scale, uses simple homemade equipment and methods and for that reason anyone can adopt his system.
For example, when his birds were hatched last year, the nights still were chilly and Joe thought he needed a brooder in case they should escape from beneath their foster mother's downy body. If young quail become chilled they wilt and die like cut flowers in a noonday sun, so Joe, not having a brooder, rigged up an

Paulding County Folk
Show N~w lnt~r~st
In l:ons~rvation
* * * * * *
inexpensive outfit by stringing a 20watt electric bulb through the top of a tin can then cutting an entrance in the side for the birds. Even if he hadn 't had electricity, as is the case with many farmers, he'd have made a broder by putting a kerosene Ian tern in a box. .
Joe's first principle is to practice the most rigid sanitation because chicken droppings contain a germ to which the domesticated fowl has become immune but which is deadly to quail. Last summer he kept his hen-bird family on a small mesh wire, a foot or so off the ground, and moved it daily. Then to prevent the little birds pecking each others toes, which they evidently mistook for worms, he kept pine straw on the wire and their tiny feet sank into it.
This summer Joe is trying a new experiment. He believes the birds may be stronger for their future wild existence if they do not grow up with the domesticated fowl. So he has taken them away from their bantam mother. Should the weather turn cool or damp he will rig up his improvised brooder to hover them.
During the first day and a half of their life, the yo ung quail were given no food but plenty of water. Since then they've had a prepared mash.
Joe's enthusiasm for conservation is so contagious that 25 or 30 of his neighbors have "caught" it. They've formed an informal sort of conservation club which they call "Joe's Bobwhite Quail Club." Together they have a 10,000-acre stretch of woods which they've posted for a four year period so there's no doubt but that the quail population in Paulding county will prosper.
And as for Joe himself, he doesn't ever intend to hunt his quail. He's just raising them as a hobby and will release them to live in his woods as they will. All the trouble and ex pense he goes to is far offset, he says, when he hears them give their merry "Bobwhite" call or dart across his path when he walks in the woods.

FORESTRY DIVISION
(Continued from Page 9 )
area in a few years will be self-supporting and that private landowners will be benefitted by the demonstration .
YEAR-ROUND WORK
The Division of Forestry employed the year-round services of a ranger in charge, three towermen, a dispatcher and three laborers. The ranger being responsible for all activities on the area and for carry out plans of the Division's foresters. In addition, during the Fall and Winter, or the more fire hazardous months, other men are employed, as necessary, to handle the fire situation. These men are at all times on fire duty and subject to call anytime they are needed. At the same time, all field employees do thinning work, planting in season, maintain roads, telephone lines, fences, buildings, pastures and numerous other jobs to be found in such an operation.
For use in forest fire control and maintenance work, the Division maintains four trucks, two fully equipped with water tanks, motor driven pumps, back pumps, rakes, etc., to fight fire and two for use in maintaining roads, fences and other improvements. A tractor with a disc plow and a power driven mower are used in maintaining firebreaks, truck trails and pastures.
Fire control being a necessity to good Forest Management, more time is spent and efforts directed at forest fire prevention and suppression activities than any other single job. The forest land burned over during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, represented less than .6 of 1 percent of the total area. The men employed in fire protection have in the past two years, during spare time, thinned approximately 100 acres of young pines and planted 50,000 slash seedlings in barren spots . . . the areas thinned being scattered over the tract in relatively small plots.
SKILLFUL HANDUNG
T HE PROPER management of a forest for multiple land use is not only the skillful handling of trees for maximum growth and yield of quality products, but forest manage ment with game management, forest management with range management, forest management with farm man agement, as well as management to preserve esthetic value, all of which tend to provide a steady annual in

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OUTDOOR GEORGIA August 1~1

come, ra1smg the standard of living

of employees.

Several hundred acres of

carpel tained

~~r\r'ahsesrepbays

t

ure resi

are maindents ad-

joining the area can r~nt graz-

ing pri vileges for their cattle.

Also several hundred acres of

woodlands on the area are en-

dosed in fence and several cat-

tle owners have taken advan-

taae of this opportunity to get th~ir cattle off the highway

where they may be killed and

the open woods where they are

apt to be stolen.

The three towermen, three work-

men , and the ranger, have fenced in

areas where they may grow a good

portion of their vegetables, truck

crop and food for at least one cow

and twenty or thirty chickens.

FOOD FOR GAME
In addition to the tower Units and worker's Units on the area, there are eight small far~s that are rented at a reasonable pnce. These farmers as well as the employees give their service when necessary in actual fire suppression. On these farms the land rented is only that which is suitable for agricultural crops. The remaining cleared areas have been planted to pine or set aside for growing ga me food. The value of which is recognized by both the Division of Forestry and Wildlife. With the development of both game and forest assets only a few years from its peak, it is reasonable to predict a game paradise among tens of thousands of dollars worth of marketable timber produ cts.

T he Coastal Flatwoods Land Use Area provides thousands of acres of "wide open spaces" with wonderful recreational possibilities, relaxation for the weary and an opportunity to partake of Nature's offerings amidst well-planned forest activi ti es .

Entrance to the Okefenokee Swamps through Swamp Park provides for recreational parties scenery and fi shing found in no other part of the South.

Clean , comfortable cabins, nestling alon g the shores of the well-stocked 120-acre lake of Laura Walker Park, offer a place for quiet relaxation.

DOGS CAN BE PESTS
Rovin g dogs are among the most serious enem ies of wildlife. The thinking sportsman will see that his dogs are well-fed, well-hou sed, and well-treated; and that t~ey are kept up when not hunting, particu la rly during wildlife breeding seasons.

HOI:IlY [REEK HAS FINS

Bass, Perch, Bream Offer Opportunity to Fishermen

Co mpi led by Worke r s of the Aug us ta Unit; of t he Wri te r s Program of the W . P. A. in Ge o r g ia

F OR generations Rocky Creek has been a prime attraction to Augusta fishermen. In a local way one might regard it famous as a fishing stream. ot that all of the fishermen have exchanged plugs, flies, worms and minnows for good game fi sh simply by throwing in and pulling out. It is not that easy by a long stretch. But for an unpretentious stream of water, Rocky Creek gives a generous share of good luck along with bad; and if figures were available they would probably show a fishermen 's population, year after year, as great as- if not greater than - any other stream between the Savannah and the Ogeechee rivers.
Rocky Creek is a strange name for the stream because there is not a rock near it, indeed hardly a pebble. Running between sand ridges in Richmond County it is quite as devoid of rocks as a sea-island beach. At any rate, there are no rocks in that half of the stream familiar to Augusta anglers.
The stream still runs clear. Many segments are shallow, swift, white, over beds of coarse sand. Other stretches are black over bottoms of decayed matter. It is in the dark, deep places twisting through tangles of growth that fishing is most fascinating.
Wilkinson 's Pond, in the lower half of the creek about two miles beyond Augusta's limits, comprises about fif. teen acres of water, running to a depth of ten feet. Here it is no rare thing to find a good stout bass with a will to fight. And with grasshopper, baby wasp, even with the lowly worm, there is many a good catch of bream and perch from any a point around the open banks.
HONORABLE MENTION
B UT Rocky Creek stimulates the enthusiasm of historians, as well as of fishermen . In fact it deserves honorable mention in the history of a great industry.
A recent drainage project of the WPA had caused a number of old timbers to be lifted out of the bed of the creek. These timbers, it is thought by many, were the foundation of Eli Whitney's cotton gin , built in 1793. Some historians say it was 'the site of Whitney's first experiment.
Mary Ware Wimberly, an aged mulatto, tells it without any doubt: "I was born on this

place, right here, a mile from the creek. 'Course I know where Mr. Whitney's gin was. It was right where they took out those old timbers not long ago."
Often men associate big bass with big waters; open ponds, large spillways, and like places. But one of the fin est bass ever taken in Richmond County was caught at a point on Rocky Creek not much wider than a nineteenth-century wagon road and just about paddle deep. It happened at a sharp turn not far above Lombard's Pond.
USED Ll VE BAIT
T WO ME had paddled up the stream. They were fishing with live bait, among which was an oversize roach. It was too large for ordinary fi shing, and one of the partners was about to release it outright into the creek because every time he put his hand into the bait bucket the big roach made commotion enough to injure the normal ones. But the other fellow suggested fixing the big roach on a clamp hook and setting it on a line from a small willow limb.
This was done, and the fi shermen went on slowly up the creek. It seemed a long way in the knotty turns and the slow motion , but probably it was not more than fifty yards above the set line- an hour laterthat they resolved to work back downstream and quit. They had only two small bass and a fairly large jackfish for about four hours' fishing, and it was getting late.
When they put around toward the point where the set line was, there came a churning of water like a man kickink his feet over the side of a boat. It was exciting. The bass had swallowed the roach and was hooked deep inside. He weighed eleven and threequarter pounds.
It is the pond and the spillway below it that have made Rock Creek an angler's haven for generations. As wide at points as a good golf drive and more than half a mile in length, the pond supports a floating field of lilypads. The spillway is the most popular place in the whole lay out for anglers. Bass, perch, bream, and jackfish are taken there, and taken in quantity.

OUTDOOR GEORGIA Augut 1941

17

Harmless Water Snake Faces Destruction
By CHARLES D. WHARTON
OF ALL the reptilian inhabitants of Georgia, the water snakes are probably the most persecuted and least understood. They seem to receive the brunt of man's hatred against snakes. Being easily located, by reason of their preference for water, they provide a target for many unthinking people who presume they are ridding the community of a great pest. Some kill them solely for the reason that they are snakes; others kill water snakes because they " destroy fish "; others fear for their personal safety.
It has been shown in other fields that to interfere with nature's setup is to invite evil results. Di scard prejudices a moment and consider the good points of water snakes. Actually they render several definite services. Probably the most important is the
consumption of weak, dead and diseased fish. Were diseased or biologically unfit fish allowed to breed or infect others, one could soon see the disastrous consequences that would result.
Most trout fishermen realize every hooked trout turned hack into the stream will not recuperate. Should a trout fail to recover quickly enough from often unnoticeable injuries, it would he extremely lia hle to an attack by harmful bacteria, producing a condition detrimental to fish in good health. I do not say a water snake doesn't eat healthy fish. Even if not to press the theory of natural selection, this can be beneficial. To overstock a pond or stream has been proven a worse deed than understocking one. Certainly water snakes were intended to eliminate, to a certain degree, the excess produced or introduced, thus quickly permitting fish to attain

breeding size by way of the more abundant food. Granted that these above points are true, it is still necessary to control water snakes in certain areas, 'as an overabundance of any wild creature will tend to be a hazard.
"Sure, there's plenty of moccasins down there on the creek. You fellows catch them? "
How many times have I heard some farmer or store owner make those remarks. He believes all water snakes to be poisonous. Here, again, is another reason why aquatic reptiles are slaughtered unnecessarily.
~LMOST everyone calls a water 1-\._ snake a " moccasin. " The word itself undoubtedly has a sinister ring but the only snake deserving of this title is the cottonmouth , or true water moccasin, a snake found in the coastal and south-central parts of Georgia. This snake is the one and only poisonous water snake fo und in Georgia. owhere is it abundant, save certain desolate regions on the coastal plain and the Savannah River. The cottonmouth will probably never be encountered above Macon. If anyone believes that they can give conclusive evidence to the contrary, I would be pleased to hear from them.
There are approximately seven species of harmless wa ter snakes in Georgia. This is given not to confuse the read er, hut to give information to those interested. Three of these species are found in the coastal region; two in the cen tral-southern part of the state and two are distributed over the entire state. These last two are more likely to be encountered in north-central Georgia than any of the other species. They are the Common Water Snake and the Queen Snake. The former is the recipient of the name moccasin, the latter is responsible for the plunges from overhanging limbs that sometimes startle the unsuspecting fisherman. The Queen Snake, however, it might he interesting to note, has such a small head that to eat any hut the tiniest fish is impossible-they feed principally on crayfish and salamanders.
Briefly, we find water snakes as a rule are not destructive to fish life; they are beneficial in most cases; and the one true moccasin is encountered but rarely, and only in the so uthern half of Georgia.
It is difficult to make snake state-

Creel and Bag Limit
(Continued from Page 3) from the tail back to th~ first fin , using his forefinger and thumb for the massaging.
In about three min utes the fish made a flirt and swam away, as vigorous and alive as you please.
Blanton and I were thunderstruck over the apparent miracle, and asked the guide what sort of magic he had used.
The guide said, "Why that is artificial respiration for a fish. That massaging from the tail hack to the first fin starts them breathing again."
In telling this story to some fishermen, they were astounded- not so much with the scheme for restoring life to the fish, but in the fact that anybody would release that large a fish. " Imagine anybody in Georgia being sport enough to turn loose a big fish like that," was the comment. "Why, down here we should have kept it, even if we had had to feed it to the hogs."
IS THIS FISHING? ear Perry, Fla., on the Fen Holloway River, a few years ago, a party of fishermen tied their boat to the dock and departed. I strolled around, seeing what I could see, and in that boat tide up there was a switch about two feet long, with a prong at one end. On that switch I counted 63 bass, the largest of which was about the size of a man's thumb. What a sorry opinion God must have of us, who claim to be made in His image. We need education on conservation, and we need "creel" limits on the blessings nature has provided, to teach and impress by law the things any fool ought to know.
INDIGESTION!' T he robin devours, on the average, sixtyeight worms every day.
KING OF TREES The oak is called the King of Trees and acorns from oak trees were a food before anyone in Europe knew of the grain we call corn.
ments acceptable ; to change the views of people who have grown up with certain beliefs but the point of this article is an appeal to the sportsmen of Georgia to view the water snake situation with an open mind, and, in a different light. Let's give water snakes a chance to help nature.
OUTDOOR GEORGIA will be g lad to answer &.ny Questions concerning s nakes. Write Cha rles Wharton.

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illJJEJlE ~ ~ ~ ami WJJJrr ~ ~ ~
~Biiw;

L AST MO started a

THcompthreishenm~iavgeazainnde

detailed list of the best fishmg holes

in Georgia. This feat~re ~ill be con

tinued u11til all counties m the state

have been covered. Some readers

have informed us of their intentions

to clip this valuable information

from each issue and retain it for a

permanent fishing guide which is a

splendid idea. If your county is not

listed here, watch for it in future

issues. Here's where they are.

CHARLTON COUNTY
ATILLA RIVER- Burntfort, twelve mile Ea t of Folkston; Bass, Crappie, Red Breast Perch, Blue Gill Bream, Catfi sh ; Flies, Plugs, Worms or Cut-bait; . Boat (12 ) for hire; Fishing Free. (Good fi shing seven miles down or seven miles up the river).
OKEFE OKEE SWAMP - F e deral Wildlife Refuge, Fishing allowed on free permit in season; Call at U. S. Fish and Wildlife office near Fargo or Folkston for permit ; One of best fi shing areas in the State, with Bass, Brea m and many other varietie ; Boats, 50 cents a day; Guides at $2 to 4 necessary if penetrating Swamp beyo nd established limits; Bank fishing Free at Billy's Lake or the Canal.

CHATHAM COUNTY
SALT WATER- Savannah Beach, Tybee Island; Surf fishing on the beach with rod and reel, using plugs or shrimp-bait; Boats ava ilable on the Inlet for river or creek fi hin g with rod and reel, pole and line or hand line; Bass, Whiting, Croaker, Perch, Flo under, Drum, Shark, Trout, Sheepshead, Skipjack and many other varieties; Sheepshead bite best by dock piling with fidler crabs on small hooks, for other fish use live shrimp or cut shrimp; Crabs are taken wi th meat or cut fish, either on handlin and net or crab trap; Excellent accommodations at the beach during Summer season.
LAZARETTO CREEK- On Tybee Highway. Small boats for river or creek fishing; motor boats available for deep sea fishing.
TUR ER'S CREEK- On Tybee Highway, boats available for river or creek fi hin g.
BOYD'S CAMP- Wilmington Island. Boat s ava ilable.
TH UN DERBOLT- On Wilmington River. Boa ts available.
STEEL BRIDGE-Skidaway Road at Isle of Hope. Boats available.

ISLE OF HOPE BLUFF- On Skidaway River. Boats available.
COFFEE BLUFF - At end of White Bluff Road. Boats, 50 cents.
FRESH WATER- Ogeechee River, below King's Ferry; Rockfi sh, Bass; Brokenback minnows or Grub worms; Shad, netted in season.
CLARKE COUNTY
NORTH OCONEE RIVER- Athens; Blue Cat (Snails) , Carp (Common dough and cotton), Speckled Cat (Go-devils), Bream (Red Worm s) ; Free.
SANDY CREEK- Highway 24 out of Athens; Perch, Yellow Cat and Mud Cat; Frog legs; Free.
CLAYTON COUNTY
ADAMSON LAKE- On Jonesboro Road, 16 miles from Atlanta, or out old Macon highway; stocked several years, Bass, Bream, Cat; Permit, $10 a year; Fourroom cottages leased for year, $100 and up; No by-the-day fishing.
MUNDY'S LAKE- Two and one-half miles west of Jonesboro ; Bass, Pond Cats; Minnows or worms; Boats; 50 cents a day (boats included).
FLINT RIVER- Three miles West of Jonesboro; Bass, Bream, Cat; Worms or minnows; Free.
JESTER'S LAKE- One mile North of Jonesboro, Atlanta He:hwav; Bream; Worms ; Boats ; 50 cents a day.
WHALEY'S LAKE- One mile West of Jonesboro; Bream and Cat; Red Worms; Boats; 25 cents a day.
COBB COUNTY
VINI G'S-From Atlanta, go out Howell Mill Road across the Chattahoochee River to Vining's; Bass, Bream; "Few" Boats; $1 a day.
BISHOP'S LAKE- From Atlanta, follow Roswell Road, turn left on Johnson Ferry Road and cross river, foll ow road to sign ; Bass, Bream, Cat; No boats, $1 a day charged for privilege of bringing your own boat and using it on lake; Fishing, $1 a day.
COOPER'S LAKE- Twelve miles from Atlanta, turn left Oakdale Stop (Camp Highland Road), Bear right to lake; Bass, Bream, Cat; 50 cents a day, Boats 25 cents extra.
COLQUITT COUNTY
BEARD'S POND- Fourteen miles West of Moultrie on Highway 37; Bass and Jack ; Pork rind, Shimmy Wigglers, Red bucktails, Speckled floating frogs; Boats, 50 cent s a day.

OCHLOCK EE RIVER - Two miles West of Moultrie on Hi ghway 37; Bass, Bream, Jack; Red bucktails, Speckled frogs; Free.
WARRIOR C R E E K - Highway 37, Northeast of Moultrie; Bass, Jack, P erch; Pork rind, Shimmy Wigglers, Speckled frog s ; Free.
TYTY CREEK- Highway 37, Northeast of Moultrie; Perch and Cat; Red wigglers; Free.
LITTLE RIVER- Highway 65, East of Moultrie; Bass, Jack, Red .Breast Perch; Pork rind, Speckled floating frogs, Red bucktails; Free.
COLUMBIA COUNTY
SAVANNAH RIVER- Four miles East of Evans; Catfish; Minnows or Beef liver; Free.
CRISP COUNTY LAKE BLACKSHEAR - Fort Early, near Warwick; Black Bass, Bream; River Runt, Worms; Spring water, Camp Grounds, Drinks, Cooking Shelter, Boats; Fishing privileges Free.
DAWSON COUNTY
CHAMPION POND One-half mile from John town; Catfish, Bass, Rainbow Trout, Red Perch; Red Worms or Lures; "Reasonable" charges on arrangement with owner, Charlie Champion.
DECATUR COUNTY KING WATER POND- Twenty miles West of Pelham, Five miles South of Vada; Bass, Jack, Bream, Speckled P erch; Spoon, Shimmy Wiggler with pork rind, or medium Broken-back such as River Runt; Boats, Camp sites, Sheds, Cooking places; $1 a day for each person fishing, boat paddler is not charged. FLINT RIVER- One mile West of Bainbridge on Highway 84 (Fed.) 38 (State) ; Bass, Red Breast Perch, Rock-fi sh, Bream, Cat, Suckers; Worms, Live bait, Cut bait, Flies, Lures; Boats, 50 cents a day; Fishing privileges Free. LAKE DECATUR- Twelve miles West of Bainbridge on H.ighway 38 (State) ; 84 (Federal) ; Bass, Jack, Bream, Shell Crackers, Speckled Perch, Cat; Worms, Live Bait, Lures; Boats, 50 cents a day, Cabins, $1 to $1.50 a day; Fishing Free. SPRING CREEK- Six miles East of Iron City, Highway 38 (State) ; 84 (Federal); Bass, Jack, Bream, Shell Crackers, Speckled P erch, Cat; Worms, Live bait, Flies, Lures; Boats, 50 cents a day; Fishing Free.
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* * COVER PAGES
This beautiful picture of a young buck was taken in Savannah recently. The deer is what you might say, " In the velvet." His antlers seem to be covered with velvet. One day in the future these antlers will be larger and hard, at which time he will find himself on the target end of a hunter's gun.
The picture on the back page was taken at Vogel State Park. These beautiful falls roaring down over jagged rocks offer a striking bit of scenic beauty. Makes you kinda thirsty, eh?

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Fire Hunters lowest Form of Violators . 2
Commissioner lack Cravey

Here's What Will Happen

To Your Old Pots and Pans .

3

Captain Garland Peyton

Georgia Wildlife Thrives As Result of Agreement Between State and U. S. 4
Charles X. Grano

Progress In Fire Protection

5

Walter Dyal

Hunters Getting The Fever

6

Beverly Wallace

Hunting Turtle Eggs On Coast . . . . . 7
Joe Stearns

Snake Study Fascinating

8

Charles Wharton

Alexander Stephens Park . . . . . . 9
R. F. Burch

U. S. "Undercover" Agents

Tra;:> Wildlife "Gangsters"

12

You Tell 'Em . . . . . . .

13

Joe Stearns

Jenkins Fire Unit Celebrates Anniversary . 13

Our Dogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Photos by Joe Stearns

Georgia's Menhaden Fishing . . . . . 15
Joe Stearns

Book Review . . . .

16

This Month's Recipe .

16

Wildlife Tidbits .

17

Fishing Calendar and Regulations

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Where and What They're Biting .

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FIRE BUNTERS LOWEST
FORM OF VIOLATORS
Just about tops on the list of game animals admired by hunters is the deer, a fleet-footed, clean and beautiful creature of the forest. To preserve this graceful animal for posterity, it should and must be hunted in a fair and square manner.
But when low-principled fire hunters go after him in the dead of night with blinding headlights they toss aside every vestige of good sportsmanship. They turn what is and should be a decent, clean sport into one of the most despicable pieces of savagery. They become, in my opinion, one of the lowest and most cruel persons the good lord ever put the breath of life into.
Fire hunting was banned in the latter part of the Nineteenth Century, one of the first game protection laws enacted in Georgia. In the old days, such hunters were so named because they carried blazing light'ood knots. The light sought out the deer's eyes, blinding and frightening him so he stood like a marble statue awaiting death.
Now the fire hunter has streamlined his methods, giving the deer even less chance to escape such cruelty. The killer straps a battery set on his back, clamps a high-powered light on his head and generally arms himself with an automatic shotgun. He doesn't care whether he kills in or out of season, whether he brings down buck or doe nor if he leaves young fawn to die of starvation.
There's more of this unscrupulous form of hunting going on than most people realize and I appeal to everyone who gets a tip on it to pass it on to the Rangers or to me. I promise you that every such tip will be treated confidentially and followed through and, if possible, that the hunter will be tracked down and brought into court. I hope the stiffest fine possible will be put on him.
Rangers, particularly in the coastal area where this violation is most prevalent, are under orders to be on the alert for fire hunters but they need the help and co-operation of the public. last month one of our Rangers caught three fire hunters who have agreed to plead guilty. That's good work and I'm proud of the Ranger who spent the night in the woods tracking them down.
But Georgia needs even more stringent laws than we have to cope with this violation. As it now stands, a hunter must be caught in the act of firing at a deer at night for us to have sufficient evidence to bring about conviction. What we need is legislation which will accept as concrete evidence a hunter found at night in deer ranging territory with gun and light.
Give us this legislation and we'll be able to do more about stopping these miserable, low-down, consciousless rascals who call themselves hunters.
Recently I visited Wisconsin to study that state's wildlife program. The deer season there lasted only seven days and hunters reported 33,300 bucks legally killed. This year the season is expected to be extended to nine days. Georgia's season opens November 15th and lasts to January 5. That is a total of 51 days. I am convinced our deer season is entirely too long and should be shortened to 30 days at the most.

SEPTEMBER, 1941

OUTIDXO>OlR{ GEOlR{<GilA

Volume X, No. JJl

JOE L. STEARNS, Managing Editor

ZACK D. CRAVEY, Editor

BEVERLY WALLACE, Feature Editor

Published monthly by The Georgia Division o! Wildlife, 422 State Capitol, Atlanta, Ga.. in the interest o! Georgia wildlife and !or fishermen: hunters, nature lovers and conservation o! natural resources. Single copy, 10 cents. Yearly subscriptions to United States and its posS!'SSI?ns, and Ca~ada, 75 cents; other countries, $1.50. Subscribers must notify us o! change o! address !our weeks in advance o! next pubhcatJo'! date, gJ vmg bo~h old and new address. Contents o! this magazine must not be reprinted without permission. This magazine is g lad
to receive photos, drawings, stories and articles dealing with outdoor subjects, but cannot g uarantee return of unsolicited contributions nor insure against their loss. Contributions not accompanied by sufficient postage will not be returned. Entered as 2nd class matter August 31. 1940, at the post office at Atlanta. under t he Act o! March 3, 1879.

TO YOUR OLD POTS AND PANS

r/J'! Captain (}arlanJ Pe'!fon
DIRECTOR OF MINES

THE subject of aluminum is one of frequent mention just now because of the important role thi s metal plays in the present ational Defense Program. One evidence of the unusual demand for aluminum at this time is the fact that in every locality, town and city housewives are being called on to contribute kitchen utensils and other items containing this
metal. Aluminum is the lightest of metals

commercial ore of aluminum. Aluminum is obtained as primary metal from the refining of ores and as secondary metal reclaimed from scrap. The substantially pure metal finds a limited use but its alloys are em ployed in many fi elds.
Although the scrap metal cannot be refined it is commonly re-alloyed and rolled into sheets, such as are shown in the accompanying illus-

Ba,wK,ik Jn q~ (!)~
B; Scuvu:e d/.M ,4~um

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tration, or it is melted and poured into molds to make cast items.
As mentioned before, bauxite, the oxide, is the principal ore of aluminum. Bauxite forms compact, earthy and pisolitic masses; but it exists as a rock of mineral aggregate rather than as a specific mineral.
B AUXITE belongs to the group of loosely consolidated materials, called laterites, formed by surface weathering.
In Georgia, bauxite occurs in pockets and irregular masses up to 50 feet long. They are found in
orth Georgia in Bartow, Floyd, and
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used in large quantities. It is silvery white in color. It is soft, has a high tensile Lrength and melts at a relatively low temperature.
It was discovered in 1825, but it was not until 1896 that it was possible to produce it in sufficient quantities and at a price per pound which would permit its use in the metallics field. It is now classed by the U. S. Army and Navy Munitions Board as a strategic material because of its great importance in the manufacture of aircraft, automobiles, street and railroad cars, ships, and mine equipment construction. Other industrial uses include electrical transmission cables, kitchen cooking utensils, lithographic work and building construction.
Aluminum is one of the most abundant elements in the earth's crust; it ranks third (7.3 %) to oxygen first (49.8 % ) and silicon ec-
ond (26.1 %) . It never occurs in the
n_a~ural state but always combined: a silicates in clay, mica, kaolin , feldpars, and leucite; as oxide in corun~um and bauxite; as fluorite in cryohte; and as sulfate in alunite.
Bauxite, the oxide, with 74 % alumnia maximum, is the principal
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Right off the p ress. This worker is sliding a sheet o f aluminum off the rollers. Your old aluminum pots and pans will help keep those rollers active. Uncle Sam needs aluminum now to put in those new fighter planes in the National Defense Program.
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Georgia Wildlife Thrives As Result of Agreement
Bet\Veen State and U. S.

By CHARLES X. GRANO Assistant Forester
U. S. Forest Service

M ANY Georgia hunters and fishermen who have availed themselves of the fin e huntin g and fishing on the Georgia Fish and Game H ::magement Areas of the Chattahoochee
ational Forest, kn ow of their existence, but have very confu sed ideas regarding the function and organization of the areas. This is strongly evidenced by the questions they put to the men in charge of the areas. In the interest of clarifying the public's conception of these areas and to bring them to the attention of those who are puzzled, a few words of explanation are in order.
When the first white settlers made their slow and tortuous way into the beautifully rugged mountain areas of North Georgia, fish and wild animal life abounded in fabulous numbers. After many years of intensive hunting, lack of predator control, unrestricted woods burning and other factors, game dwindled

Fish planting is an important activity on the Georgia Fish and Game Management Areas (Note the Georgia State Fisheries and U. S . forest Service trucks)

almost to the point of exline tion and streams which once bore thousands of fish became practically barren.

In hopes of reversing this destructive trend the State of Georgia Wildlife Division at the time under the direction of Zack D. Cravey and who now is present Commissioner of atural Resources, en tered into a cooperative agreement with the U. S. Forest Service for the management of wildlife on ational Forest lands wi thin this state.
This agreement was completed March, 1936, and Georgia became the first State to enter an agreement of this type with the Government. Other states followed suit later. This united action hetween Georgia and the U. S., plus the cooperative efforts of the two factions, began to show almost immediate results and has continued to thl"ive and flomish.

Deer in Blue Ridge Wildlife Management Area - Chattahoochee National Forest

After careful consideration and study, four areas were selected for fish and game management purposes. The largest of the fi sh and game management areas is the ChattahoocheeChestatee Area. This area embraces
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OUTDOOR GEORGIA September 1941

P rogress In Fire Protection Revealed In Middle Georgia

Burning of Timber
Shows New Low
Percentage Rate
By WALTER DYAL, Director of Forestry
P RIOR to 1938 all forest fire protection in Middle Georgia was organized under a cooperative system with the Division of Forestry known as Timber Protective Organizations.
Briefly, these organizations were formed by interested timberland owners willing to cooperative with each other and the Division of Forestr y in maintaining forest fire protection on their lands.
Each member was assessed sufficient funds based on the acres signed up by each member to finance the protection system-the size of each organization varies, depending on the number of interested owners and the willingness of adjacent owners to sign up for cooperative protection.
The Division of Forestry agreed to cooperate with any organization formed with a minimum of 10,000 acres as long as sufficient funds were available. After the organization was fo rmed and officers elected by the members, a manager or secretary was appointed, forest patrolmen and wardens were employed and necessary fire-fighting equipment was purchased. Financial aid was provided by the Division of Forestry by reimbursemen t of a percentage of funds spent for protection provided certain regulations were followed in the expenditure of funds by the organization.
For various reasons the Timber Protective Organizations in Middle Georgia were not very successful - due mainly to the non-cooperative willingness of the landowners

to pay their assessment for operating expenses and Jack of interest on the part of adjacent owners to becoming members to increase the size and effectiveness of the system. In 1937 an Amendment to the Georgia Constitution was passed by the General Assembly and known as the Herty Amendment. This Amendment allowed any co unt y in the State
This tree went to market. It is being marked for cutting by a forester.
of Georgia to levy taxes or appropriate money for forest fire control and other conservation purposes. This paved the way for the basis of cooperation used by the Division of Forestry in aiding organized county units in the State.
At present there are sixteen (16) such organized counties in the State of Georgia- three of these coun ties are in the Macon district.
In December, 1938, the Commissioners of Burke County requested Mr. W. G. Wallace, then District Forrester at Macon , to explain the details of how to organize a county protection unit. This explanation was given by Mr. Wallace in a meeting of the

OUTDOOR GEORGIA September 1941

Commissioners. A few days later the first coun ty-wide fire control organization to be formed in Middle Georgia was under way. The Unit now is somewhat different from what it was when first organized. In the beginning only two men were employed and their employment only extended through the fire season. A few pieces of fire-fighting equipment were provided, and the duties of the Ranger and his assistant were to patrol separate sections of the county extinguishing all fires that were found. They were also commissioned as State Fire Wardens and had the power to make arre ts for violations of the State fire laws.

The following fire season a new budget and working agreement was signed by the Division of Forestry and Burke County Commissioners. This new agreement called for the employment of a full-time Ranger to supervise the unit. A truck was purchased and equipped with an adequate supply of back pumps, flaps and rakes. Allowance was made in the budget for two additional wardens to be employed for six months during the fire season.

Additional equipment was pur-

chased and placed in the hands of re-

liable landowners. Even this increase

in equipment and personnel was not

sufficient to suppress all the fires.

Fires raged and smoke stopped traf-

fic on highways, but at the end of the

season it was found that the area of

woodland burned had been reduced

from 19 % for the preceding year to

about 6 decrease

0
of

for the current year- a
13 %. This decrease was

still high as compared with the State

average of 2 %, but the people of

Burke County and the Commission-

ers felt that piogress was being made.

In June, 1940, a Forestry CCC camp in South Georgia completed the work in its area and was moved
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MARSH HEN SEASON OPENS ..

B11B~ 'kJ~
FEATURE EDITOR
.tS SUMMER'S sultry days give
.L-t.. way to autumn's tang, the Geor-
gia sportsman begins swapping his rod and reel for his rifle.
True, there isn't a great deal he can go out for this month, but, like a dove with the instinct to migrate to a warmer climate before the chill winds actually come, he gets the urge to get out his "shootin' iron."
Down in the coastal counties, the marsh hen became a legal target on Sept. I and early reports are that when the tide flushes them on the full and new moons, luck is good. Fox and rabbit aren't protected. In 18 North Georgia counties squirrel can be hunted now.
But for the Nimrod who goes out for deer, turkey, quail, duck, bear, 'coon and 'possum, September still is a "no-hunting" month.
evertheless, you'll see him in every part of the stat sitting on the backdoor step or squatting on his wife's best living room rug- the hunter, taking his rifle apart. Long, sweet hours of labor he'll spend oiling, polishing and rubbing every inch of it, over and over and over.
Finally he'll have it done and the gun will gleam like a wood duck's back. He'll toss a stick across the yard, slap his setter on the flank and command, "Go get it, Spot."
And when be holds that shining, glistening gun up to his shoulder, squints an eye and bellow "bang! bang!"boys, be's got the bunting fev er and he's got it BAD!
And there's nothing will cure it except the real thing. He'll dream a thousand times of walking through crunching leaves with the crisp dawn wind blowing in his face. He'll tramp through briars and across streams. He'll see the pert, sharp face of a deer and exhilirate to the "whirr" of a Bobwhite covey leaving the ground. And he'll look again with impatience at the calendar.
But it won't be long now and, meanwhile, there's one other thing
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he can do to make ready for his hunting. You guessed it- buy his license.
Licenses have been on sale since the first of last month and may be purchased at any county seat. There's been no change in rates: $1 for a county residence license; $3.25 for a state residence license; $5 for a county non-residence license and $12.50 for a tate non-residence license.
As a small but effective bit of national defense conservation, Director Zack D. Cravey is asking fishermen to save the aluminum badges or pins in which their licenses came. Hunting licenses are the same size and consequently will fit in the badges. The metal of course has become extremely

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vital and more or less scarce in national defense work and by making their frames do double duty, sportsmen are helping Uncle Sam.
It's too early yet to tell what sort of hunting season this fall and winter will bring. Wildlife Rangers will make their surveys later in the season but advance-and as yet unofficial- reports indicate in many sections deer and quail are increasing.
Rangers have noticed too that this is a heavy pine cone seed crop season which means that wildlife will feed in the woods instead of the swamps. Dove, quail and turkey relish the pine seed and the heavy crop, which occurs only every few years, will be good news to these gun-oilers.

Jack Tway polishes up his gun while his favorite bird dog comes up to look on. There seems to be an understanding between the two of them. If Bobby, the pointer, could talk he might ask, " When con we go hunting?"
OUTDOOR GEORGIA September 1941

Here is 700 pounds of ocean turtle . This one laid 115 eggs before heading back into deep water.
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P~ P~ dJ."", c~

By JOE STEARNS
T URTLE egg hunting off the Georgia coast has the intrigue, m ys tery and excitement of a haunted bouse on a stormy night.
A few simple requirements are necessary for the easy chair individual or Mr. Average Citizen to launch himself on a tu r tle egg hunt. He must have no respect for sleep and be willing to start his search at the bewitching hour of mid-night.
The hunter must have immunity to cold and h eat. It is downright chiJly roving up and down a lonely beach at 3 o'clock in the morning. The sun really hears down in the morning about 8 o'clock. You also need a flashlight, tough feet able to stand the grind of sand which seeps into your shoes, a kodak to convince the folks hack home you are tellin~ the truth and a naviga tor who knows how to get you and your party hack to the m ainland.

Any of the islands off the coast of Brunswick will do. Your party sets out at midnight in a boat that would chill yo ur blood if yo u saw it in the daylight and yo u sail in utter darkness until your guide un loads you on an island.
It is best to split up yo ur party and search in opposite directi ons. The huge female turtles come out of the ocean at high tide, which is from 2 A.M. to 3 A.M. As yo u walk alon g the beach yo u fl ash yo ur light hither and yon in an effort to locate what is known as a turtle crawl. It is a track in the sand from the water inland and looks as if it was made by a tractor. Sa nd crabs camper about under yo ur feet as yo u walk along. Once the track is located yo u follow it until it ends. Then with a sharp stick you probe into the sand until the end of the stick s hows evidence of egg. Dig and you will find from 100 to 300 turtle eggs.
These monster turtle from the briny blue often weigh as much as 1000 pounds. The jaws are powerful and co uld snap off an inch thi ck

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plank as yo u would snap a toothpick.
Coastal natives will talk for hours on the virtue of turtle steaks. The eggs are sold by many restaurants around Brunswick and some people actually enjoy them. Each egg is about the size of a golf hall and very soft sh elled. Place the egg in water and boil for J 5 m inu tes and still you will find that the white part is not cooked and will not cook no matter how long you expose it to fire. They're swell to u se in making cakes.
It is interesting how a mama turtle lays her eggs. After leaving the water and findin g a suitable nest inland, the turtle digs a bottle shaped hole and deposits the eggs. Then the turtle carefull y covers up the eggs and returns to the water. It never re turn s to its nest. If yo u are rugged, healthy and can spare an entire night of your life, give turtle hunting a tr y- it's swell!
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SNAKE STUDY FASCINATING

MERE sight of a snake provokes the eternal question, "Is it poisonous?" Getting acquainted with the four types of poisonous snakes found in Georgia is a very simple matter and requires little time. Also there is a measure of safety in knowledge of dangerous snakes.
How many times have you noticed people walking cautiously in the woods, glaring intently in the ground and hushes ahead and in deadly f ear of snakes leaping out of some obscure point? An hour spent with a book on reptiles or time spent in a museum is not only fascinating but immensely instructive.
There are almost no set r ules for the identification of poisonous snakes viewed from a respectable distance. Below is listed the four types of poisonous snakes found in Georgia, and a few of their characteristics:
The RATTLES AKES are divided into three species all dangerous. The big Diamond-back is found, fortunately, only on the coastal plain. Due to its large size, it is our most deadly snake, though rarely met with. The Pigmy, or Ground Rattlesnake, is a diminutive edition rarely exceeding 20 inches in length. The Timber Rattlesnake is found all over Georgia, being common in sections of the north Georgia mountains. Two colorations of this snake exist, a velvet black and a yellow. either color denotes sex.
The COPPERHEAD is widely known hut often confused with harmless snakes. It is generally characterized by a stout body, triangular markings, and a head quite distinct from the neck. The Highland Moccasin is common in Geor gia.
The WATER MOCCASI when young is marked similarly to the Copperhead, though black in old age. It inhabits only the southern half of the state. This snake should not be confused with harmless water snakes which it so closely resembles.

Here is a little more than five feet of terror and danger . He' s a Cottonmouth and was captured alive by Charles Wharton . This size water moccasin is very dangerous and his bite can be fatal to man . Smaller moccasins are not apt to be so deadly. This snake died a few days after the picture was taken and now may be seen in the state museum on the fourth floor of the State Capitol building . Taxidermy has preserved him for a long time to come.

The CORAL snake is ringed with yellow, red and black and is the only snake so colored with a black snout. It is secretive and found on the coastal plain. The Coral snake is our only poisonous snake that lays eggs.
It is comforting to learn that 85 per cent of all snake-bite cases r ecover without treatment. However, snake-bite is a serious matter. It is never overtreated but often undertreated. For those who live in out-ofthe-way places it is advisable to have a pocket suction kit. These cost little and are very effective. A word oi caution about the use of a tourniquet. There is a prevalent theory that victims of snake-bite recover not because of a tourniquet but in spite of it. To tie one too tightly or for too long a period of time without release is extremely dangerous. After checking through the records of deaths in Georgia from snake-bite during 1940, I believe that at least two of them could have been prevented by proper

application of the tourniquet.* To learn the poisonous snakes in
yo ur vicinity is a requisite to safety afield- and what is more essential, provides peace of mind.
*Information on where to obtain snake-bite kits will be sent upon request. A comprehensive sheet of instructions on the first aid treatment of snake-bite is also available. Write Charles Wharton, Outdoor Georgia.
PETE WANTS BEAGLE
"Pete" has a good home for a beagle hound or even two beagle hounds. R ece ntl y "Pe t e" asked " OUTDOOR GEORGIA" to help him get a hound or two and he promised to take good care of the dogs and appears to be a fellow who will keep his word. So, if any of our readers have a beagle or two to place in a good home where the canine will re ceive kindness and a complete and full life-write "Pete" King, Thomaston, Ga.

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!llf~{!lJlDfH ?JJEPHfll?J PIlH11
* * INSPIRATION TO. VISITORS CivillVar Veteran Be,1e1nbers p,,,,ed Geo1git Gove111or

B y R. F. B URCH
Director of Parks

,l LE A DER STEPHENS Memorial Park at Crawfordville is
f t proving its worth not onl y as a recreational center but as a
teacher of histor y as well.
At least 500 visitors or more each week go to the park, home of and shrine to the great Georgian whose name it bears. They go there not only to enj oy the pool, tennis courts and picnicking facilities provided on the spacious grounds of Liberty Hall, but to learn of the life and histor y of the times of Alexander Hamilton Stephens.

Small in stature but great in wisdom and intellect, the "Sage of Liberty Hall," as he so aptly was called, was born near Crawfordville in 1812. H e served as vice-president of the Confederacy, as state and national legislator and as governor of Georgia. He died in his 71st year in the executive mansion.

Although he was opposed to secession because he foresaw the

inev itable result was a

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" Uncle" Tucker Edmondson, 96 year old Civil War veteran, looks upon the Alexander Stephens monument at Crawfordville in the state pa ~k there. It brings back me mories of ather days far " Uncle" Tucker knew Alexander Stephens lang
before we st udied about him in our text books.

bloo dy war, hi s love for the South was so great that he stood with Jefferso n Davis at the helm during the ter riffic years of the War Between the States.
At no place in Georgia could one better

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learn of real So uthern tradition than at Liberty Hall. The house has been r epaired and furni shed, as nearly as possible, as it was when its master r esided ther e.

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Most of the credit for refurni shing the place must go to Mrs. Horace M. Hold en, wife of the noted late Athens jurist and grand-niece of Alexander

BRUNSWICK

Hamilton Stephens. She spent unlimited time and energy, and put much of

On Coastal Georgia

her personal money into obtaining the original furniture used at Liberty Hall. Originals she could not obtain she described and had built, for she kn ew the place as it was when the Confederacy's Vice-President lived there.

where all sports abounJ

At a recent barbecue given by Park Superintendent R. E. Daniel and Miss Margaret Gunn , Liberty Hall hostess, Mr. Edmondso n was a star entertainer with his anecdotes and true-life stories of Alexander Hamilton Stephens.
Among all the visitors who go to Liberty Hall there is none who gets more real inspiration and enjoyment than Tucker Edmondson, Confederate veteran who personaUy knew Alexander Hamilton Stephens. A resident of Crawfordville, the old Veteran

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Your catch or your kill cooked to perfection for your dinner, with the Management's

loves to recall the days when the diminutive "Sage of Liberty

compliments

Hall" astounded great audiences with his amazing wit and sa-

gacity. In these da ys of fifth column activities, communistic teachin gs and non-

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American doctrines, it is good for American s to have shrines of real patriots to visit. Such a place is Liberty Hall, home of one of Georgia's greatest sons-

OWNER MANAGEMENT

a place for inspiration as well as recreation.

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Hunting & Fishing
ICENSES

1 - W. E. Watson , ol Jackson, pulled gar fish is on e ol Georgia' s most tit,,

vge

g~r

fish h as

in it

at Jackson Lake re ce ntly. The destroys tho usands ol small

fish . 2 - Commissione r lack Cravey ..~('tairable h 15 first hunting licenses ol th e season to

Tom Benton . Got your hunting licen 1 ou ol ~ er Ellen Slider admiring ly holds a papa

quail. Although just a very young ~~el'l 3- E~:, already is immensely interested in

animals and birds. 4 - John A. Hurt0 ry, orr advances towa rd a la k e near Marietta

and it looks as il John means busine' 1.1tlanta, uipment he is taking along . 5 - This

little baby world. 6 -

quail Marsh



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shows some ol the mars Ocmulgee State Park at state. 8 - Not long ago

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re many hens w ill be found . 7 -

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visited his Grandparents at Lake

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ton . David decided to go fishing andyj of Afla~ . a, 7-l / 2 poun d bass he caught! 9 - Who

says you can't catch the big ones? I o;'k at) 1 ~ put up a te rrific battle be/ore he

landed this 8-pound smoll mouth bo~
are some mighty line Brunswick shrirn


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near water

Cuthb ert recently . and rolling down

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- Here assem

bly line headed for market. 11-E/ lllrt 011 of Thomasvi lle, found this little fawn

th along the h1. ghway wea k and hungry"'OHrd Dunkn,th e little fell ow home an d gave 1t to hiS
son . Edward, Jr., feeds the fawn on ~ t~o you will note in the picture, and they're great pals. 12- This coon was captur:a He ~~e Okefenokee . He poses, none too will-

ingly . 13- 0f all things! Along the COo ne~~ s ca lled a pin cushion and is caught far

out in the ocean .

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U. S. "Undercover" Agents Trap Wildlife "Gangsters"

Waterfront Derelict,
'Hot' Drummer
Get Evidence
CHICAGO'S duck bootleggers laughed at the Federal game agents who were on their trail. For a year the smugglers had been buying and selling wildfowl and still the game agents couldn't track down the ring of violators.
The smugglers had a stooge, an old waterfront derelict who didn't know what was in the packages he carried from one illegal dealer to the other. One night, four bootleggers met in a dark alley. A large package and green bills changed hands.
"Thanks, Dopey," one of the men whispered. "You know where to get the next one tomorrow night. Here's a huck for your trouble."
And Dopey shuffled 9 with his dollar bill- a marked bill.
Two minutes later Federal agents swooped down on the cluster of duck bootleggers, and the next day the leaders and me=nbers of the Chicago ring were in Federal Court, where the principal witness was Dopey, the waterfront bum. But Dopey was sober and well-dressed, for the erstwhile down-trodden bum was John Perry, United States Game Management Agent of the Fish and Wildlife Service, United States Department of the Interior.
Throughout the 48 States, the Fish and Wildlife Service maintains a corps of alert game management agents whose duty it is to apprehend individuals who violate the Federal game laws. In addition, the Federal agents cooperate with State Game Wardens in catching violators of State laws, and, in turn, the States help the Federal agents nab their man. With the cooperation between Federal and State game agents the country has, in effect, a small army of men protecting the ation 's wildlife resources.
Rounding up smuggling rings and wild duck bootleggers is only part of a Federal game agent's work. During the hunting season he must check sportsmen's guns and daily takes to
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see that all hunters abide by regulations.
"Most of the sportsmen are cooperative," declared W . E. Crouch, chief of the Division of Game Management, " h ecause they realize we are helping to keep up the bird populations by checking the comparatively few violators who exceed the hag limits."
T HAT sportsmen realize the necessity of having alert game agents and appreciate the value of this work, Crouch explained, is indicated by the fact that sportsmen's organiza tions are constan tly asking Federal game agents to speak at their meetings.

"Which , by the way, is another reason we are so so stiff in our requirements for game agents," Crouch said. "An agent not only must know a great deal about the outdoors, how to apprehend violators, and h ow to present his cases in court, but he must be able to speak well at meetings."
Crouch stated that in his organizations are aviators, engineers, pharmacists, newspapermen , salesmen , professional auto racer , lawyers, expert mechanics, and musicians.
In 1940-41 Federal game agents ei ther singly or in cooperation with State agents obtained evidence in
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Th ese wild ducks are the type of luckless victims discussed in the accompanying story. Th is photo taken at Pine Mountain lake .
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Jenkin s Fire Unit

Celebrates First

Anniversary

August marked the first anniversary of the Jenkins County Fire Protection Unit.
With Ranger Olin Witherington in charge, the Unit started operations without even a proper lookout tower or a ranger's headquarters. During the interval a wooden "cab" or "crow' ne t" constructed atop a barn near Millen made a fair substitute for a lookout tower and the Ranger made up in diligence for his lack of conveniences.
Meanwhile a tract of land has been purchased, and a dismantled 100-foot steel tower secured and erected by CCC Camp P-94 of Waynesboro. Plans are underway for immediate constructi on of a Ranger's headquarters and Ran ger Witherington is building a telephone line to the new tower.
So, the Jenkin s County Fire Protection nit feels that it really will go places this year.

Happy hours! Dr. John S. Hurt has two lakes on his farm and plenty of fish in each 0f the m. The Doctor is most happy when he is fishing and whips that fly rod with the
touch of an expert.

Each September 13th is a big occasion for Dr. John S. Hurt. It is his birthday and Dr. Hurt never misses the chance to assemble man y of his friends fo r the occasion at this farm near Marietta.
Several years ago Dr. Hurt invited a number of guests to be with him on his birthday and a good many of them came early. Dr. Hurt was preoccupied preparin g details for the occasion . Some of his guests slipped down to his lake and caught some bass. Some bright colored to y balloon s were attached to the fish and they were returned to the water.
Dr. Hurt was notified that something unusual was going on down

at his lake and it was suggested that
he investigate. Now it might be 0 . K.
to wreck Dr. Hurt's car or set fire to his barns or break out his windows but for goodness sake don 't disturb his fish.
It was a sight to see the various colored balloons running up and down the lake. Dr. Hurt rubbed his eyes in amazement. Yes, he really was seeing things. o- those balloon.s were real. Finally the good Doctor roared, " If somebod y doesn't release my fish, I'm going for my gun. "
The fi sh were released.
*** Remember- It's cheaper to buy a license than to pay a fin e!***

OUTDOOR GEORGIA September 1941

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OUR DOGS
1 - Tom Matthews, of St. Simons, is mighty proud of his setter and her pups. Tom is looking forward to the hunting season and says his setter is best when it comes to finding birds.
2 - 0ff the coast of Brunswick the Outdoor Georgia photographer went aboard a shrimp boat and learned that this dog is the ship's mascot.
3 - Ralph Metz claims the canine blessed event of the year for his Irish Setter Polly who delivered 12 pups recently.
4 - R. E. Tittle, chief of a CCC Camp in Okefenokee Swamp , has a real pal in this pointer. The dog is well trained . A word from R. E. brings action.
5 - Litt/e Rex, a fox terrier, owned by Tom my Stocks of Atlanta, is a hunter too . He is certain destruction to rats and mice . He will tackle anything up to the size of a Tiger.
6 - A boy and his dog make a happy pair. lack Cravey, Jr., pats Georgia, his Irish setter.

q~ Menluulen eaich s~
Medi.cd, Soap, e~ .1~
POGY BOATS OPERATING SUt::t::ESSFULLY OFF t::OAST OF BR U NSWit::K DAILY

,tLO G the coastal sec~ion and par-
n_ ticularly off the Islands near
Brunswick you are apt to see what the natives call pogy boats in operation. These fishing boats are not interested in shrimp and crab but are catching all the menhaden fish they can.
Menhaden fish are vital to several industries and the boats have found it highly profitable to snare them. The menhaden is a very oily fish, unfit for the table.
Regular factories have been set up to handle the men baden catch. The fish are crushed to obtain the oil and it is used in cosmetics, soaps and for medical purposes.
The boats you will find off Bruns~vi ck are reported to sell their entire catch to one large soap company that advertises their product thusly, "It floats" and it is claimed that the reason " it floats" is due to the menhaden oil, a substance believed splendid for the face and body.
The pogy boats start out early in the morning. Several small boats operate from the large pogy boat. A lookout is posted in the crow's nest, a small lookout station at the top of the boat's mast. This lookout searches for a school of menhaden. When the school is sighted, the small boats

This menhaden boat is anchored and ready to talce on the catch of menhaden off the coast of Brunswick. Note small boats with men pulling up nets loaded with the catch . Also is shown the hold of the boat covered with menhaden.

encircle the fish and nets surround them. Then the smaller boats drag the fish up to the large boat where the fish are loaded.
Hundreds of men are employed in the menhaden industry. The factories, it is reported, receives tons and tons of fish daily.
Georgia's waters are rich with menhaden and boats have little trouble filling their hold with this type fish daily. Not all the boats working in this business are Georgia boats. Georgia's coastal patrol keeps in close touch with the pogy boats. Each boat engaged in catching menhaden, and each man, must pay Georgia a tax for the right to take these fish out of our waters.

TARPON JEWELRY! The very large silvery scales of the tarpon are sold as souvenirs and used for making costume jewelry and various ornaments.
SCRAMBLE TWO! A conservative estimate places the number of eggs laids by the blue crab of Chesapeake Bay at one time at 1,750,000. This makes a mass of eggs or a "sponge" about one-third the size of the mother crab carrying it.
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BOOK RBV:IEWS

CLUBFOOT OF THE OKEFENOKEE By A. S. McQueen
Published b y the Okefenok ee Publishing Co., F olkston, Ga. Prico $ 2 .00.

"Clubfoot of the Okefenokee" brings to the reader a fascinatin g, gripping novel, the story of a black bear. Written in a strikin g manner, it leaves th e reader with a n inside knowledge of the customs in the "land of the q uaking earth", and on intimate terms with th e people, wild creatures, a nd na tu re itself in this vast and beautiful region.
pon reading the novel one soo n realizes the careful prepa ra tion, the detail ed completeness acco rd ed it by Mr . McQueen, a ma n who has obviously for many years ought th e solitud e of the mysteri ous wa tery land.
"Clubfoot of the Okefenokee" is r ich wi th folkl ore and backgrou nd of the great swamp. It portrays the life of a magnifi cent animal whose mode of exi stence in the wild is known to few. It hows, too, in a n

interestin g way, the sympathetic, lovin g care bestowed upon their offspring by moth ers of the wilderness.
Early in life Clubfoot and a Middle Georgian, William Cunnin gham, posin g as a scientist in terested in wildlife, meet. Actu ally on a mi ssion of undercover work to stop the traffi c in illegal "moonshine", Cunn ingham falls under the bewitching spell of the "Swamp Angel". In the power of a stop the traffi c of illegal "moonshine", Cunningham and a black bear are changed to fit the courses of their respecti ve destinies.
This book, appealing especiall y to those who appreciate the beauty of nature's wilder regions, will provide ma ny hours of captivatin g enterta inment, and is a welcome addition to any shelf.
C. H. W.

FEDERAL "UNDER0VER'' AGENTS TRAP WILDLIFE ''6ANGSTERS"

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3,033 cases of game-law violations. Convictions were obtained in 2,861 cases, or almost 95 per cent of the cases.
Getting back to the qualifications for an agent, Crouch stated that former experience is often helpful. Especially when professional fur smugglers or bootleggers of wild ducks and other game birds are involved.
A few years ago, a ring of bootleggers was apprehended by a game agent who before entering the services had played in swing bands appearing in large theatres in the west and midwest. He had become interested in game management work and finally was accepted as a full-time agent.
His former profession came in handy when a ring of bootleggers operated through a popular nightclub. The bootleggers knew the regular agent and hid their illegal ducks

in a secret ice box whenever he was seen in the vicinity of the club.
One night the club's orchestra had a new "hot" drummer. A few days later the regular Federal agent for the district walked into the night club and went directly to the secret ice box where he found the wild ducks that were used as evidence in Federal Court a few days later.
The "hot" drummer was the Federal game agent working on undercover assignment.
Undercover work is probably the most difficult task that can be given a Federal agent.
Within recent years, three large rings were smashed by undercover operators. A few years ago a Service man worked in the Chesapeake Bay area for some six months obtaining evidence that finally convicted 52 wild duck buyers and sellers.
Last year, a ring of small restaurants and night clubs in

THIS MONTH'S~ RECIPE
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Outdoor Georgia's September dish is fish prepared with Spanish sauce. For good measure we toss in an effective method often used to preserve fish for a day or two. Write us of your success with the recipes appearing in this monthly column.
FISH WITH SPANISH SAUCE
Prepare flesh of lean fi sh by boiling dressed fi sh for about five minutes in acidulated, salted water. Separate the flesh from skin , and ALL bon es .
3 Cups fi sh Aesh, prepared as above 2 Cups sli ced onions 2 Cups ca nned tomato 2 Tsp. salt 2 Tsp. sugar
1h Tsp. pepper
1,4, Cup cooking oil immer all ingredients (except th e fi sh )
for abo ut 30 minu tes or until the onions are almost cooked. Stir, and add th e fish without breakin g up the meat more than neces ary. Cook about 10 minu tes longer.
CORNING FISH FOR TE-MPORARY PRESERVATION
This is th e simplest method of preserving sur plus fi sh for a day or two. Scale, clean, and trim the fi sh ; small fi sh may be split through the back, larger ones split into halves or filleted. The sides of fi sh should not be over one inch thick. Wash the fi sh, drain, and cover all surfaces with as m uch fin e salt as will clin g with careful handling, usin g abo ut 1 pound of salt to 5 pounds of fi sh. Pack the fi sh in a deep vessel and store in as cool a place as possibl e fo r 4 to 6 hours. The brine formed and a ny excess salt should then be rinsed from the fi sh wh ich should be wiped dry and again kept as cool as po sible until used, preferably within two days.
San Francisco Bay area were selling wild ducks to special customers. Finally a Federal agent became a special cus tomer, and shortly heavy fines and jail sentences were im posed on the game sellers.
One agent trailed a group of men who were " jacklighting" birds at night and taking dozens of birds by clubbing the creatures paralyzed by the sudden fla shes of light. Suddenly the group doubled back on its tracks, and the agent dived under a car.
He laid on the cold, wet ground in the middle of November for about two hours before he called his assistants in and arrested the men as each came back to the car with a bagful of birds.

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Wildlife Director Zack D. Cravey minds fox hunters that they must h:ve licenses for their sport. Makes no difference if they don 't go out to kill but just to have the dogs chase the fo x- it's still a "hunt" and as such requires a license. They are available at all county seats and cost $1 for resident county hunting and $3.25 for state-wide.
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It doesn't happen every day, but there is such a thing as catching a fish without wetting a hook. Ranger Arthur Wilson of Valdosta tells this story: " ot long ago Lester Dean was fishing down on the Suwanee. He cast over some low hanging limbs and the lure got tangled and hung in mid-air, at least eight inches out of the water. While he was paddling over to unwind it, a bass rose out of the water, struck at the frog and hooked himself."
* * * H a Banks County bantam
hen is squawking "thief, thief" at a Bobwhite quail in her vicinity, she has good cause for such accusations. Fletcher Durham, of Homer, put a setting of eggs, from the State Game Farm, under his bantam and 10 of them hatched out. The mother was proud as punch over her odd babies until a Bobwhite from the nearby woods took a fancy to them. Several days he visited the farmyard and one day he lured them off into his wildwoods and try as the "banty" will, she can't coax them hack to her.
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John Hunter, old Negro fisherman near Winder, is wishing he had learned some time back that one didn 't have to have a license if he fi shed only in his own county and uses just worms and a pole. For years he'd been dodging Rangers and when he saw Frank Thornton of Athens come into his yard to get some water from his well, the old Negro thought surely the law at last h~rl caught up with him. After a fnendly conversation, the old man finally got up nerve to ask, "Does a hody need a license everytime he

fishes?" The Ranger explained the exception and the Negro broke into a good laugh. "Wish I'd a-knowed that t'other day, Boss," he chuckled. "I saw you coming up the river and throwed my catfish back into the water and hid my pole! "
* * * Here's a tale you won't believe,
but Ranger Stoy Jackson says Len ton Henslee of Amity will sign an affidavit that it's so. Mr. Hensley heard a mother quail giving a lnud, distressed cry and found that a black snake was devouring her eggs. Taking a weeding hoe, Mr. Henslee chopped open the snake and found five of seven eggs still intact.
He put the eggs back in the nest with the five which the snake hadn 't molested. The mother perched her self on them and next morning there were eight baby quail !
P. S.-Ranger Jackson's addrPss is Washington, Ga.
* * * Most folks say you can't catch a
channel cat trolling, but Bill Duke, of Blakely, will argue the point. Re cently he was trolling in Lake Decatur with a Heddons fan tail lure and brought in a swell seven and a half. pound cat.
FOR FISH AND BIRDS
For fish and birds I make this plea, May they be here long after me.
May those who follow hear the call Of old Bobwhite in spring and fall;
And may they share the joy that's mine When there's a trout upon the line.
I found the world a wondrous place, A cold wind blowing in my face
Has brought the wild ducks in from sea, God grant the day shall never be
When youth upon November's shore Shall see the mallards come no more!
Too barren were the earth for words If gone were all the fish and birds.
Fancy an age that see no more The mallards winging in to shore;
Fancy a youth with all its dreams That finds no fish within the streams.
Our world with life is wondrous fair; God grant we do not strip it bare!
-EDGAR A. GUEST.

Your Old Pots and Pans
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Polk Counties. One isolated deposit occurs near Warm Springs. A number of counties in the upper Coastal Plain are known to contain deposits of bauxite. These counties include Washington, Wilkinson, Twiggs, Houston, Macon, Schley, Stewart, Webster ana Quitman.
The first bauxite was mined near the town Baux, in France. The first discovery of bauxite in America was in 1887 at a point a few miles northeast of Rome in Floyd County, Georgia. Bauxite mining was started in 1888 on the Holland property in Floyd County, Georgia.
The discovery of bauxite in Wilkinson County and elsewhere in the Coastal Plain was made by Otto Veatch, Assistant Geologist in Georgia, in the course of field work carried on in connection with the clay deposits of the Coastal Plain. The first description of these deposits was published in 1909.
Prices for bauxite in 1938 ranged from $2.00 per ton for crude ore f. o. b. mines to $40.00 per ton for chemically treated bauxite. An average of $5.25 was received for crush-dried, while calcined bauxite brought $12.38 per ton. The present prices are somewhat higher.
Prior to the beginning of the present World War, bauxite was imported from British .Guiana, France, Russia and Italy. At present, it is understood that the princial foreign source of bauxite for use in this country is British Guiana. Increased demand, due to the national defense activities together with a shortage of ships in which to transport foreign bauxite, has created unusual interest in the domestic reserves of bauxite. The U. S. Bureau of Mines and the U. S. Geological Survey, together with the several State Geological Surveys, are conducting an extensive campaign at the moment to determine the extent and purity of our domestic bauxite reserves. Georgia is cooperating in the survey.
IMAGINE THAT One-fourth of the rain that fall s in th e forest is caught by tree leaves and di s~i pated into th e air.
SHO' NUFF
Skunks, on the whole, are beneficial animals, feeding largely on mice, grubs, worms and insects that usually are damag ing to farm lands.

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FISHING CALENDAR AND REGULATIONS

Conasauga River Jacks River
Wildcat Creek Dicks Creek Drainage . Chattahoochee River Drainage
Noontootley Creek

SEPTEMBER
. September 1 . . September 4 - 7
11 - 14 18 - 21 25-28. September 1 . September 4- 7 11 - 14 . . September 4 - 7 11- 14 18-21 25 - 28 . . September 1 .

. Cohutta Cohutta
. lake Burton ChattahoocheeChestatee ChattahoocheeChestatee
. Blue Ridge

INLAND FISHING
Open season on all species of fresh water fish except rainbow and brook trout in Georgia is June 1 through April 14 of the following year. Dotes of the closed seasons are April 15-Moy 31. Open season in the trout waters of North Georgia is April 1-November 15 outside the Georgia Fish and Game Management Areas. In streams and lakes within the Management Area the season is April 17September 28.
The creel limit for Rainbow and Brown trout is 20 doily; for Brook or Speckled trout it is 25. Rainbow and Brown trout must be eight inches long and Brook must be seven inches. The limit in Management Area streams is 10 doily. There is no limit on other species of fresh water fish .

Rock Creek Drainage .

. September 4 - 7 11 - 14 18-21 25-28 .

Blue Ridge

Rock Creek lake is open from April 17 through September 28 on Saturday and Sunday of each week, plus Thursday and Friday during periods when Rock Creek Drainage is open, plus labor Day.
* Dates ore inclusive as fishing in streams is limited to Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday during open season for each stream, plus Labor Day for streams open that day.

COASTAL FISHING
The season on all salt water fish except Shod remains open the year-round . These fish may be taken from all waters January 23Morch 23 inclusive. Shod may be taken from the St. Mary's River from January 1 until April 20.
MANAGEMENT AREA
SIZE LIMIT- Minimum size limit for all trout i seven inches.

CREEL LIMIT- Maximum catch in any day

GEORGIA WILDLIFE THRIVES

and maximum possession for one person is 10 of any one or all species.
FEES AND MANNER OF FISHING-Permits

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the headwaters of the Chattahoochee and Chestatee Rivers and contains approximately 56,000 acres. It is located in Lumpkin, White, Towns and Union Counties. The Cohutta Area covers about 41,000 acres on the headwaters of Jacks and Conasauga Rivers in Murray and Fannin Counties. The Blue Ridge Area is over 41,000 acres in size and is located in Lumpkin and Fannin Counties. The smallest of the four units, the Lake Burton Area, is 15,000 acres in size and is all within Rabun County.
All the Fish and Game Management Areas are on National Forest land and come under the jurisdiction of the United States Forest Serv-

Forest Service officers are commissioned as State Game Protectors.
Streams were restocked with thousands of fish and later opened to regulated fishing. A system of rotation is practiced so that a stream which was open last season is allowed a one-year rest period.
Game restocking has been instituted on all the areas and efforts have met with considerable success. Deer have shown such an excellent increase in numbers that a regulated public deer hunt was held on the Blue Ridge Game Management Area last year. The hunt proved so successful that another public hunt is contemplated for this fall.

are $1 per person a day or $10 a seasan. Permits are valid on any stream or lake during the regulated season and must be obtained before fishing is begun . They must be accompanied by a state fishing license. Permits may be obtained from Wildlife Rangers or from the following addresses:
Division of Wildlife, State Capitol, Atlanta .
Forest Supervisor, U. S. Forest Service, Gainesville.
District Forest Ranger, u. s. Forest Service,
Blue Ridge.
District Forest Ranger, u. s. Forest Service,
Suches.
District Forest Ranger, U. S. Forest Service, Clayton.
FISHING TIME-Fishing is permitted only between the hours of 5 a. m. and 7 p. m., standard time for the area concerned.
CREEL CENSUS- Fishermen are required to report their catches on a government post card addressed to the Forest Supervisor, or to the ranger at the checking station .

ice. Matters pertaining to policy,

plans for game and fish management and restocking, public hunts, etc.,

PROGRESS IN FIRE PROTE~TION

are considered and passed on jointly by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife, and the United States Forest Service. State game protectors, employed by the State of Georgia, are stationed on each area and administer and protect them in conjunction with the District Forest Ranger within whose district

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to Burke County. The camp immediately began construction on five fire towers, gave towermen subsistence unit and headquarters building, about 50 miles of secondary roads to inaccessible portions of the county, and over 200 miles of telephone lines.

protection in Burke County a bright future.
The percentage for the current year- 1941-42- is expected to lower the State's average instead of raising it.
There are two other counties in the Middle Georgia district that have

the area is located. In order to

All these improvements, to- organized county-wide forest fire pro-

strengthen game protection on these areas, State Game Protectors are

gether with a new and larger budget calling for a new and

tection. They are Taylor County at Butler and Upson County at Thom-

made Federal Wardens and U. S.

larger work program, gave fire

aston.

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OUTDOOR GEORGIA contin ues publication of the state's best fishing holes. If your co unty does not appear here, watch for it in future editions.
DeKALB COUNTY
LAKE ARABIA- Turn right at Railroad cro sin g after passing first entrance to Lithonia (proceeding from Atlanta), drive l mile out dirt road, turn right again at white chu rch, go half-mile and turn left into rough woods, half-mile to lake; Bream and large Bass (hard to catch) ; Live minnows; Free.
CO STITUTIO LAKE- Eight miles out of St. McDonough Road or Moreland Avenue from Atlanta, turn left at bottom of hill, l mile to lake; Cat, Bass, Shiners; 25 cents a day.
WARD'S LAKE - Twelve miles out Boulercrest Drive (through East Atlanta), turn left on first dirt road beyond second concrete bridge; one boat; Sl a day, 50 cents for three hours.
LAKE PHOEBE (Si lver Lake) - Enter just North of Oglethorpe University driveway, and go one mile from P eachtree Road to lake; Ba , Bream; Boats, 50 cents; Fishing, 1 a day, 50 cents half-day.
PANTI-TER LAKE-Fifteen miles from Atlanta, through East Atlanta, four miles from Panthersville. Follow paved road to sign on tree, turn right for one-half mile of good dirt road; Bass, Bream, Cat; Boats, l a day, 50 cents half-day.
FOREST LAKE (O ld Watson's) - Turn off Lithonia-Conyers Highway near Lithonia and follow signs; Bass, Bream ; Boats, l a day; SOc half-day.
DOOLY COUNTY
FLI T RIVER- Drayton Bridge, West of Vienna on Route 27; Bream, Channel Cat; Minnows or Worms; Store, Flowing well, Camp grounds; Free.
ELBERT, HART AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES
SA VAN AH RIVER -- Near Hartwell and Elberton; Catfish and Suckers; Catalpa Worms, Minnows, Red Worms.
TUGALOO RIVER- Near "Lavonia, Hartwell ; Same as above.
BROAD RIVER- Near Elberton, Roy:;ton; Same as above.

EARLY COUNTY
CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVER- Eighteen miles west of Blakely; Bream, Shell Crackers, Jack, Bass, Cat, Carp, Crappie, Warmouth Perch; Worms, Plugs, Flies, Crawfish, Cut Bait ; Boats, 50 cents a day.
SPRING CREEK- One mile west of Damascus; Bream, Shell Crackers, Jack, Bass, Cat, Crappie, Warmouth Perch ; Worms, Plugs, Flies, Crawfish; Free. No boats n eeded .
SOWHATTCHEE CREEK - One-half mile west of Cedar Springs; Same fi sh and Bait as above; Free; No boats needed.
DRY CREEK- Four miles southeast of Blakely; same as above.
HOWARD'S MILL POND- Three mil e east of Cedar Springs; Same fish and bait as above; Boats available; Free with permit.
BIG POND- Eight mil es northeast of Damascus; Bream, Shell Crackers, Bass, Warmouth; Worms, Plugs, Flies; Free with permit.
(Note: Ranger report s "world s of fish in Big Pond, Spring Creek and Sowhattchee Creek.")

FAYETTE COUUTY

LAKE BENNETT-Two miles west of

Fayetteville, Highway 54; Bream, Big-

mouth Perch, Speckled Cat; Red wigglers,

Penniwinkles, Small Crayfish; Boats free

Fishing 25c a day.

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STINCHCOMB'S LAKE- Four miles west of Fayetteville, Highway 54; Bass,
Crappie, Minnows; Worms; Boats; SOc a day.

WHITEWATER CREEK - Two miles west of Fayetteville, Highway 54; Bass, Bream, Cat, Perch; Any fresh water bait is good ; Free.

LINE CREEK- Twelve miles west of Fayetteville, Highway 54; Bass, Channel Cat ; Minnows, Penni winkles; Free.

FLINT RIVER, GRIGGS' STORE- Ten miles south of Fayetteville, Highway 92;
"Any place to fish, all species. Any kind of freshwater bait good."

MORGAN'S LAKE- Ten miles southwest of Fayetteville, two miles off Highway
85; Three mlies east of Senoia ; Bream, Perch, Cat; Worms; Free.

LEE'S LAKE- Eight miles east of Un ion City; Bass, Bream, Cat; Minnows, Worms; Boa ts; Free fishing.

FANNIN COUNTY
BLUE RIDGE LAKE- North of Blue Rid ge; Bass, Muskellunge, Bream, Cat; Spring lizards, Plugs, Live minnows ; Tour ist camps and Hotel at Blue Ridge; Fishing privileges free.
TOCCOA RIVER- North of Blue Ridge: Bass, Cat, Red Eye; Same bait as above; Same accommodations as above; Free fi shing.
ROCK CREEK AND ROCK CREEK LAKE- East of Blue Ridge; Rainbow Trout; Minnows; Red Worms, Flies; Be prepared to camp; State permit Sl a day or SlO a season.
JACK RIVER - West of Blue Ridge; Same as above.
(Note: Ranger reports on county : " Plenty of motor boats at SS a day or SOc an hour. Boats with out board motors Sl a day.")

FLOYD COUNTY
JONES LAKE- Eleven miles from Rome on Cave Springs Road; Bream, Bass; Live minnows, worms; Membership lake, $25 a year.
ETOWAH RIVER- East of Rome; Blue and Yellow Cat; Minnows, Worms; Free.
PERRY LAKE- One mile from Cave Sprin gs; Bream; Bass; Minnows, Worms; Boats, 10 cents an hour.
CALLIS SPRING LAKE - Two miles from Rome; Bream, Bass; Minnows, Worms; Boats $1 a day.
COOSA RIVER- South of Rome, Blue and Yellow Cat; Minnows, Worms; Free.
OOSTANAULA RIVER- West of Rome; Blue and Yellow Cat; Minnows, Worms; Free.

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* * COVER PAGES
Aw come on-let's go hunting-Please! That is the impression you get looking at Jack Tway's champion pointer Bobby, on the front page, as he looks longingly at the gun. Bobby knows he only needs Jack to slip ~n those boots and pick up that gun for the real fun to begin. lt won't be long now. This geologist, on back page cover, finds something interesting in rocks even up this high. He is standing on one of the cliffs on the west side of Mount Yonah in White County. It' s a swell place to cool off when the weather gets too wa rm.

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Georgia Neglects Resources

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Comm issioner Zack D. Cra vey

Georgia Wildlife Shows Increase

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Beverly Wallace

Take Care of Your Forest

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Jo se ph C. Kircher

Magnesium in Georgia

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Captain Garland Peyton

Robin Hoods and Riflemen Ready

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Beverly Wallace

Going Places and Doing Things .

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R. F. Burch

Guns Roar As High Tide Sends Hunters After Marsh Hens Along Georgia Coast . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-9
Joe Stearns

Georgia Wildlife Pictures
Joe Stearns

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You Tell 'Em . .
Joe Stearns

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This Month's Recipe

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Historical Events in Georgia

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Book Review

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Pride and Joy of Georgetown

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Joe Stearns

Sna~es Prove Deadly Enemy to Rats 16
Charles H. Wharton

Wildlife Tidbits

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The Mail Box

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Where and What They're Biting

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1941 -1942 Georgia Game laws .

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Blessed with a climate, soil and abundance of natural resources such as Georgia is, there can be but one reason why this state isn't in the top bracket for national income and as a tourist attraction .
That reason is NEGLECT - gross neglect to develop, utilize and conserve to the fullest these God-given treasures. More progressive states with far fewer natural gifts have gone further, made far more of them than we have. Then too they have advertised them in glittering terms to the rest of the nation and as a result they have recreational-bent America flocking to their cities and playgrounds to have fun and spend their money. Take for I'!Xample the much publicized and highly efficient state of Wisconsin . With an area approximately equal to Georgia's 59,269 square miles, a soil and climate which can in no manner compare with ours, she has a commercial value estimated at $11,500,000,000. Georgia is estimated at $5,500,000,000, which seems like a great deal of money until the income and the natural resources of the two states are compared. Wisconsin has a growing season of about six and a half months; we have one about ten months. That means that the former must prcduce in six and a half months what we can in more than ten months to be even on a par with us. Yet the North Central state pro<:..Jces practically twice as much in that short period as we do in our long one. That's why I say that Georgia is guilty of gross neglect in making the most of her God-given treasures. As I see it, and believe me I have given the matter much thought, the solution lies in education. It isn't too late to see to it that every young Georgian gets the proper training in conservation.
The schools are the best bets to teach boys and girls and to see to it that they appreciate and understand conservation of forests, birds, game, fish, minerals, rivers, soil and other resources. For years conservationists have been seeking a law which would require schools to include such instruction in their curriculum rather tha.n leave it as a matter of choice with teachers.
Recently, in scanning the Georgia code, I came across a law which does provide that at least 25 minutes a week must be devoted to this study in all schools. Twenty-five minutes isn't sufficient but a great deal of good can be accomplished if every child, from the first to the last grade, spends that much time every week studying Georgia's resources.
The Governor and Dr. M. D. Collins, supervisor of education, have endorsed the plan to place such study in all schools and the State Board of Education recently passed resolutions to this effect. At present the Department of Natural Resources is trying to obtain funds to help educators put this program across. We need trained instructors to do the work, textbooks, educational films and exhibits. Those things will be acquired because we realize we cannot let neglect continue to be the order of the day in development and conservation of Georgia's Natural Resurces. When we have efficiently coupled education with national advertisement of what Georgia has to offer we will have completed one of the soundest investments of all time for the Empire State of the South .

OCTOBER, 1941

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Volume X, No. IV

JOE l. STEARNS, Manag ing Editor

ZACK D. CRAVEY, Editor

BEVERLY WALLACE, Feature Editor

Publish ed monthly by The Georgia Division of Wildlife, 422 State Capitol, Atlanta, Ga., in the interest of Georgia wildlife and for fi shermen, hunters, nature lovers and conservation of natural resources. Single copy, 10 cents. Yearly subscription s to United States and its pos sessions, and Canada, 75 cen ts ; other countries, $1.50. Subscribers must notify us of change of address four weeks in advance of next p ublication date, givin g both-old and new address. Contents of this magazine must not be reprinted without permission. This magazine is glad to receive photos, d rawings, stories and articles dealing with outdoor subjects, but can not g uarantee r etu rn of unsolicited contributions nor
insure against t h eir loss. Contributions not accompanied by s ufficient postage will not be returned. Entered as 2nd class matter August 31. 1940. at the post office at Atlanta, under t he Act of March 3, 1879.

(jeorgia W/J/i/e Showj 3ncreaje, J)eer anJ /Jotwhile Coming Strong

FROM the early reports received by the Division of Wildlife, the outlook fo r the hunting season is extremely bright.
That doesn 't mean there will be more birds and game than hunters will know what to do with- by any means- nor that they should go out and slaughter in wholesale numbers. But it does mean that indication s point to an increase in Georgia wild-
life. For one thing the spring
drought helped the situation. Rains drown young quail, turkey and grouse, and otherwise play havoc with them. Rang ers and State Foresters, as well as "laymen " census takers say

season in those and surrounding counties in which the deer will range. They include Fannin, Lumpkin, Murray, Rabun, Towns, Union, White, Whitfield, Dawson, Gilmer, Habersham, Pickens, Hall and Banks. The national duck population has been set between 75,000,000 and 80,000,000 fowl and Georgia, naturally, will get her share of these winter guests. Already several Rangers have spotted early arrivals on North and Upper Middle Georgia rivers. Squirrel, rabbit and 'possum likewise are reported plentiful. At present there is no announced open season on grouse but Director Cravey

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says if a census reveals they are here in large enough numbers he may establish a brief open season. This is a favorite bird with many Northern hunters who will pay $12.50 for Georgia licenses.
The dove is on the increase but if anything the drought harmed rather than helped. A heavy drinking bird, the dove cannot quench his thirst on the small quantities of water which suffice Bobwhite.
Beavers, a few years ago on the verge of extinction, are in several counties in middle and lower Georgia. It is strictly against the law, however, to shoot, trap or in any way molest beavers.
Thus, because the Wildlife Division believes conditions will be favorable, it is saying " happy"-but conservative--hunting to sportsmen.

they have seen more quail throughout the state than in any recent year.
Down in parts of South Georgia man y farmers have complained that deer caused considerable damage by foraging their crops. Again, that doesn 't mean that hunters will be able to go out and bag a buck with every shot but indications definitely point to more deer.
Up in the Chattahoochee National Forest, operated by the U. S. Forest Service and the Georgia Division of Wildlife, the deer population is suffici ently large for officials to open the area for a limited period of controlled hunting. Considerable restocking activity has been carried on in recent years in a number of North Georgia counties and in order for that not to be undone, Director Cravey recently proclaimed a three-year closed

Commissioner of Natural Resources Zaclc D. Cravey (right ) presents Governor Talmadge with the number I hunting license for Georgia. The license was a present from the personnel of the Wildlife Division to the Governor on his birthday last month.

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Take Care of Your Forest-
And Your Forest Will Take Care of You

By JOSEPH C. KIRCHER
R egional Forester U. S. Forest ervice
T HOSE of us intimately connected with timber production in Georgia often wonder whether our citizens really appreciate what our forests mean. We wonder a lot more when , in our travels about th e tate, we run onto fire after fire uncontrolled, with no one apparently concerned, or see some farmer clearing a hillside of fin e timber growth to farm a soil which in a few years will be in the Atlantic Ocean. We see these abuses time and time again and wonder why the state has not been reduced to a desert after several hundred years of this kind of treatment. Truly, our southern pines are wonderful trees or they would not have stood up under all this abuse which man has heaped upon them.
H you are a farmer, have you ever turned out a field, perhaps because it was worn out and eroded, and watched it for a few years? H there are any large pines near it, have you noticed the young ones come in after a little while? Slowly they come, and finally they take the field over and it

Good cuttin0 practice. An overcrowded sta nd has been thinned. yieldin0 cordwood and leavin0 stra i0 ht clear trees for future sawtimber. Note low stumps and absence of debris .
Protection and Planned Cutting Essential to Land Owners

Poor cuttina practice. A stand has been clean-cut. leavina no seed trees or youna 0 rowth to make a new stand. Note wastefully high stumps. usable material left in lops. and forest frre menace from limbs and brush .

again becomes forest. Now this is what happens where the land is not too hady eroded or where seed trees are close at hand.
Even on the worst eroded areas, however, grass and weeds and sassa fras and persimmon trees try their best to get a foothold , and the pines come in too after a long while. Now all of this happen if man will just leave a piece of land alone. But what if he should help it out and really make the best of what nature tries to give him? The farmer doesn't just trust to luck that his cotton or corn will grow without planting and culti va tion. Do yo u think he would get a crop if he did? But this is exactly what he has done with his timber land and then he wonders why it does not bring him much return.
It could be made to, and a great many progressive farmers and tirn her land owners are making their
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By Captain Garland Peyon
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NEV. ER before has magnesium metal played such an impor-
tant role either in industry or in war. The enormous increase in the production of airplanes as fighters and bombers in the present war, with the consequent need for light metals which possess the strength and durability of steel, has created an unprecedented dem~ nd for both magne ium and alummum.
Every pound of weight which can be eliminated in plane structures make for higher speed, greater armor and armaments, greater bom b loads, and increases the range of operations. The Admini stration has a set goal of 400 million pounds per yea r a~ needed. Until quite recently however. the total estimated capacity of magnes ium plants in this countr y was only 70 million pounds. Still more recently the Government claims that additio nal plant capacity ha been authorized which will within one or two years bring the output up to the total desired.

bon for photographic purposes. Also it was used as a deoxidizer in casting copper alloy , especiall y monel metal.
The principal occurrence of magnesium compounds is in the form of silicate. Magnesium is also abundant in the form of dolomite, a double carbonate of lime and magnesium in magnesite, a carbonate of magnesium and in brucite, a hydrate of magnesium. All these require more or less complex chemicai treatment in order to convert

them into a chloride acceptable to electrolytic process.
Magnesium chloride itself is found in limited quantities in potash deposits and in sea water. The chloride is also fo und in salt lakes. Until quite recentl y mo t of the production of magnesium in this country came from brin es and sea water. The Dow Chemi cal Compan y is now operating a plant extracting magnesium from ea wa ter. This com pan y produces the metal magnesium by the electrolysis of magnesium chloride. On the Pacific Coast plants have recently been establi hed for producing metallic magne ium by reduction of magne ium oxide with carbon in an electric furnace. In this process the magnesium co ntent in the magne ium
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Simple arithmetic indicate& that even 400 million pounds will not go very far toward an adequate supply of incendiary bombs for a total effective force of 50,000 planes. This would amount to only two tons per year per plane. This sup ply which requires a year to produce might readily h e used up in a few days in a major bombing operation. For instance, repeatedly more than 1000 ton s have been dropped on London alone within the space of a few hours.

M AG ESIUM is a silvery white . metal one-third lighter than
alumm um and when mixed with
aluminum in the proper proportions ~roduces an allo y which is extremely hght and yet which pos esses great
tre_ngth. These alloys are sold under vanous trade names such as "Magnalium," etc.

f Until recently the principal uses or ~agnesium metal were in pyro1echmcs an d as flash powder and rib-

This silvery aluminum metal being made into ing ots is made from Bauxite which is found abundantly in Georgia. This metal will find its way into one of those flyin g fortresses or perhaps a smaller bombing plane.

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I F' you hould see a bunch of redcapped men moving about in the orth Geo rgia mountain s next month don't get confused and imagine a co uple of hundred Santa Clauses have co me down from the orth P ole.
Or don 't think yo u're " _just seeing thin gs" if yo u spot a small arm y of Robin Hoods, their bows taut, kneeling in the brown and gold leaves of the hills.
For those gentlemen will be the real thing-not imaginary creatures and they'll be in on one of the most exciting and colorful events on the hunters' calendar this season. They'll be participating in the second deer and wild hog hunt permitted in 15 years in the Chattahoochee National For est, which is operated jointly by the U. S. Forest Service and the Georgia Division of Wildlife. The hunt will be divided into three main events: the archery hunt from Iov. 11-15 ; the main and the wilderness hunts which will run simultaneously and be divided, each, into two three-day periods, from Nov. 17-22. Applications are going out on request no w, from the Division of Wildlife, State Capital, Atlanta. A total of 200 hunters will be eligible to participate and selection will be made by public drawing on Oct. 25, by the Gain esville Chamber of Comm er ce .
All hunters, as a safety precaution, will wear r ed caps or hats to in crease visibility. Last year there were no accidents and Wildlife Director Zack Cra vy and F orest Supervisor Hugh Redding, in charge of the hunt, are tr ying to take ever y possible step to prevent any this year.
Sportsmen who prefer a roof over their heads at nigbt will participate on the main hunt and stay at hotels in nearby towns. But for wilder ness and archery hunters it will be the real camper's life -sleeping beneath the stars and eating food cooked over campfires. In addition to a state-wide huntin g license ($3.25 for residents and
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$12.50 for non-residents) main hunters will pay $5 each, and archery and wildern ess hunters, $7.50. The $2.50 differential will cover cost of main taining camp, providing tent , fuelwood and cots.
Although each hunter will be permitted to shoot only one buck, arch ers, who found their skill with the bow and arrow unable to bring down a deer last year, will be allowed to go after 'coon, squirrel and turkey.
Forest officials say deer in the Chattahoochee are plenti

ful but admit that it will take a cunning hunter to stalk one of the fleetfooted creatures for dogs will be barred from the preserve.
It's true that only the most successful of the imrods will have the good fortune to go home with a trophy and that luck will so fa vor less than half the hunters. evertheless, all will share the thrill of the chase, the fun of boastful talk, the smell of the campfire and enj oy the brilliant beauty of the forest.

8'1 Betc~ 'klalJace
Feature Editor

The thrill of a lifetime! That' s what H. V . Cunningham (right ), head of 4-H club work in Georgia, got when he shot the first buck on last year's controlled hunt. He and a companion are hauling the trophy to camp, something hunters won't have to do this year since packers will be available . (U. S. Forest Service photo .)
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FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND GEORGIANS VISIT STATE PARK

By R. F. BURCH
Director Division of State Pllrks

WITH mo re than half a million Georgians visiting our state parks this summer, there's defin_ite _indication that at last we are begmnmg to realize we have places to go and things to ee right here in Georgia.
There were, in fact, more than half a milli on Georgians who went to their state parks for picnics, camps and outings. Only that number registered and thus were co unted, others came but didn 't sign the visitor's book.
In addition, some 25,000 out-of-staters, representing every state in the Union, signed the books and, undoubtedly left Georgia with better impressions than they had gotten of us from Tobacco Road.
There is no reason why Georgia's parks system should not con tribute

home of the Vice-President of the Confederacy this year.
Vacation-bound Georgians are impressed. by Vogel State Park in North Georgia and by Pin e Mountain in West Georgia. The splendid facilities that the Department of atural Resources has been able to develop in these two parks possibly co ntributes almost as much to their popularity as the scenic beauty. Approximately 100,000 Georgians and 5,000 vacationers from other states visited Vogel State Park through Labor Day this year. Pine Mountain had drawn 50,000 Georgians and 3,000 out-ofstate visitors.
But historic Indian Springs, oldest State-owned park in Georgia , best retains its popularity. The spring and the land about it has belonged to the

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State of Geo r~ia smce 1825, when the Creek at10n gave it to Georgia at the Second Treaty of Indian S p r i ngs .
Long famous as a health resort, the mineral waters of Indian Springs make it the Southeast's most famous spa and its tree-sheltered picnic groves have seen generations of Georgians come and go.
Indian Sprin gs Park had aL11ost a quarter million visitors between ew Year and Labor Day this year, more th an 10,000 of whom were out-ofstate tourists. It likewise holds thi s year's record for a single day's visitors, having had 10,000 on Sunday, August 17th. The occasion was the annual "camp meeting." Seven thousand visitors swarmed the park on the fourth of July, for its second biggest day.
Of Georgia's nin eteen State Parks, seven are under construction , while three are awaiting development. ine are in efficient operation, although
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heavily in the future to the state's popularity as a vacation playground. Several parks already have facilities for attracting visitors either for a prolonged sta ys or just for a day or two.
Most appealing spot, probably, to visitors from other states is Okefenokee Swamp Park near Waycross. One of the most recently acq uired parks an d as yet not thoroughly developed, it has attracted more than 5,000 visitors thus far in 1941. It offers sightseers their first glimp e into an almost inpenetrable wilderness which has gained fame throughout the nation.
" Liberty Hall," the historic home of Alexander H. Stephens, attracts more Georgians than any other park centering about a historic and patriotic sh rine. Over 10,000 Georgians, many of them school children, have visited the
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Few parks hove the natural beauty of Georgia's own Laurel S . Walker Pork near Waycross . That Jok e in the background is one of the best fishing spots in Georgia .
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No se'f respecting morsh hen would care to be on the receiving end of this shot. Mack Rozier always brings home enough hens for dinner . Any wonder?
There's onel Ward points a marsh hen while his brother Mack fires away.

Coastal Patrolman Charli e De loach is eve r on the alert for ma rsh hen hunters who violate the g ame laws . Charli e is shown behind the wheel of his speedboat .

sHOT and shell cut the salt air at Brunswick and Savan nah eptember 22 as hundreds of marsh hen hunters
stormed the marshes to ride the first real high tide and to
lift officially the lid on the hunting season.
There is no hunter like the marsh hen hunter. He checks
ever y little detail, makes careful preparations and watches
those ocean tide calendars like a hawk. When the time is
at hand he hops into his little boat and churns water for the
wide open marsh spaces.
It was legal to shoot marsh hens as early as September l hut the wise old hunters sat hack patiently because the ocean was not scheduled to provide a high tide until September 22. Hunting marsh hens in just ordinary high tides is like looking in a dark room for a black bat that isn 't there.
T he marsh hen is a strange creature. It is something like a fr ying-sized chicken in size and has fair to middling speed in getting away . The high tide brings them in the open but the hens have so me very co mmendable habits. For example ever y 15 minutes the hen will coot down to the water, take a brief bath and rush back into the ma rshes. It beli eves in keepin g clean.

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TIDE SENDS HUNTERS ALONG GEORGIA COAST
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When the marsh hen ha s been brought dawn, you must paddle y our boat over to where it fell . Here is what a hen looks like as y ou lift it from the marshes.

H UNTER complain about mink in the marsh hen section. 1ink thri ve on marsh hens and destroy
many of them each year. Some veterans of the marshes

That hunter's smile tells the story! Mack looks at his birds and perhaps is thinking how they will look steam ing hot with toast around dinner time .

claim they often have hot a marsh hen and before they

could get to it, a mink 1 ould snatch it up and high-tail

it ou t of sight. S urprising as it is, Georgia has plenty of mink on the coast.

sider. So me say clean 'em and cook 'em but others offer recipes as long as yo ur arm on how to properl y prepare

Certain things are needed for the successful

marsh hens. lt seems that marsh hens have that certain

marsh hen hunt. You must have a flash light,

mud dy or gam e ta ste. Correctl y prepared, you can be

som e extra gasoline, plenty of

sure yo u ha ve a dish fit for the kings to

shells, a good sun, an oar, a

pa y yo u for yo ur travel into the marshes.

jug of (water or something), a couple of sandwiches, and the ability to balance in the how of the boat which they say requires the skill of a tight rope walker.

Commission er of Natural Reso urces Zack D. Cravey was in Brunswick for the first big da y of shooting. He directed some 40 odd Rangers in checking licenses and bag limits. Commissioner Cravey insists on protecting the marsh

It isn 't hard to hit the marsh hen

hens from game hogs. The big tide Ia ted

when it does rise. The only hard part is finding them. Then after yo u get them you have the culinary problem to con-

Mack Rozier shows his license to Ranger Bert Hardin who checks it in. Ranger C. J. Wright looks on.

5everal da ys and the hunters had to relax and wait for the next high tide to ride in before tr ying it all over again.

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lloPP;! 1 - Morton Roan found this baby humming bird
about in the grass in Atlanta . Cute little fellow, eh? h Tllis Geor..,ia air school cadet invaded the Okefeno be
i 0 Swamp to -get in a litte fishing rece nty and see~ed ~
doing all right! 3 - Wylie Tucker' s Jodie Crow IS ,.lit bird that has won the heart of the entire Tucker I 0 t.. Th e crow and Wylie's small daughter Tamara potst
:/o gether. 4 - Ralph Buice inspects the quail pe ns at the h"
farm . 5 - Dr. John S. Hurt (/eft) is congr~t ulated
birthda y b y an old friend Dr. Howard Ha.t ey 1usf f"
trying a bit of luck in Dr. Hurt's lake . 6 - Be ars art ppe4
things - to stay awa y from. This 300-poun d er wos sttll

in the Okefenokee . 7 - Take it easy! It is just a King snake ond one of man' s best friends - believe it or not. 8 - Bottle hoby. This Fawn living in captivity at Thomasville goes for milk in a big way. 9 - No phone numbers available bovs. These Young ladies, all members of on Atlanta sorority rece~tly spent the week-end at Pine Mountain and here are seriously getting in a few licks at bridge with some lovely kibitzers. 1 0 - Miss Pa rr, of Ath ens, hit the jackpot re ce ntly while fishing off the Pie r at St . Simons . 11 - Wild turkey s at the state game farm . ~ 2 - 0ne of the many shipments of quail eggs which the DiviSion of W ildlife di!tributed over the state since last spring .
(All Pictures b y Joe Stearns)

u THISREMCOIPNETH'S---:JL

It was inspiring recently to take the Division of Wildlife film s to Grady School in Banks County. This school is located far back in the hill of 1orth Georgia and the turnout was amazing. Folks walked as much as fiv e miles to be on hand for the film s. Those hard y men and women of the soil sat entranced as the film s revealed striking fore t fire scene and actions of wild animals in their native habitat. This fin e gathering of people who live back in the wooded lands 12 mi les from Corn elia th oroughly enj oyed th e picture and did not fa il to say o.
T. E. Ragsda le, Superintendent of the chool, proudly showed hi sani tati on faci litie and it wa a revelati on for cleanliness. Ra o-sdale also co nducted a brief tour around hi s small schoo l bui ldin g and offered a reward for anyone showing him so much as a pencil mark on the building. He explained it all thu ly, " These yo un o- people in this section appreciate an education and respect public property." We may be assured that America 's future is secure so long as we ha ve men and women of thi s type. Georgia can justly be proud of th ese fin e people.
Take it or leave it, but in Scotland it is still consid ered bad luck if a haddock fish erman sees a red-headed woman , a minister, a lawyer, a ca t, or a pig when he is go ing out to sea.
Tom Wade, a Columbus Sportsman who has more pranks, tricks and la ugh provoking devices than Mr. Heinz has pickles, say "Fishing is a delu sion entirely surrounded by Liars in old clothes. And it's chief purpose is to develop unoccupied human beings in the art of sleeping with both feet in a puddle in the hot sun , with a can of worms."
I am sure Tom won't mind so J suggest to Outdoor Georgia readers to write him for hi portsman's Yardstick which is a sweetheart. Address yo ur card to Tom Wade, cj o Central of Georgia Railway Company, Columbus, Ga.
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Well! Whattcc Uno! Ward Rozier of Brunswick clipped thi s little piece some place and sends it along for Outdoor Georgia readers.
There once was a fisher named Fisher Who fished from the edge of a fissure, But a fish with a grin Pulled the fisherman in Now they' re fishing the fissure for Fisher.
George Woodruff, Atlanta Sportsman and Tom Wade, of Columbus exhibit a 32 pound Rock Ba ss cau!]ht on a recent fishing trip . George did the catchin!J and Tom might be trying to talk him out of it.
Poor Papa! Perrv Middleton, at Brunswick, come ~p with this one which is well worth passing along. "A fi sherman decided to take his yo ung son on a fi shin g trip mainly because the little fellow was a splendid cook. After several hours of fi shing a dozen good sized fi sh were ready for the frying pan. The son started to cook. Before long he was turning out those golden brown fi sh a nd as one would get done, he would lay it on a log behind him.
"The father picked up the fish as fast as they were cook ed and ate them. Finally the little lad cooked the last one and placed it on the log. The

Outdoor Georgia this month steps in with one of those super deluxe, extra specia l, never-miss recipes which is sure-fire sati sfacti on for a hearty appetite. We refer to our fish chowder. ] ust for good luck, we toss in boiled corned fi sh.
FISH CHOWDER
3 lbs. lean fi sh, clean ed, scal ed and with head s off 3 Cups sliced potatoes 2 / 3 Cup sli ced on ions 2 / 3 Cup diced a ll pork 1 Qt. milk 2 Tsp. salt 1A T p. pepper 2 Cups water
Dried whole milk pre pared for general use may be ubstituted for fresh milk, in creasin g sal t to abo ut 3 tsp.
In a kettle of at least 1 gallon capacity, fry the pork to a go lden brown, add th e onions and fry to a light yeiJ ow. Th en add th e potat. e , seasoning and water; mix th e whole. La y th e fi sh on lop and cook about 5 minutes or until Aesh can be eparated from bon es and skin. Lift the fi h out care full y, separate Aesh from skin , fin and
LL bone . R eturn clear fi sh to kettl e, tir just enou gh to mix with th e potatoes and ~ook unt il th e latter are oft. Add warm ( but not. boi led ) m ilk. Add hard cra ckers j u l before serv in g.
1f des ired, th e chowd er may be prepared in a firele s cook er, allowi ng: abo ut 1 hour for the po tatoes to cook. Th e potat oes wi ll dark en sli ghtly but thi s does not affec t th e ta ste.
BOILED CORNED FlSH This breakfast dish, popular with man v commercial fi shermen, is easily prepared by placin g th e fi sh in cold wa ter and heat in g to th e simmering point.. Drain ofT th " water and repeat, cook ing th e fi sh until tend er; th en sea on wi th pepper and bu t t.er if ava ilabl e; it is gen erally ea ten with potatoes wh ich are not alted.
YOU DON'T SAY! It ha s been esti mated that if all th e shrim p caugh t in any one recent: year wer e placed head to tail in a straight lin e. th ey wo ul d reach 70,847 miles, or exactl y two and one-half tim es a round th e ea rth . Shrimp upport th e most important fi sh ery indu try on the South Atlanti c and Gulf coasts.
father reached for it and the boy burst into tears. "What's the matter son?" Dad en quired. "Well papa, I didn' t want to eat any of the fish but I did want to taste one of them" the lad tearfully re plied.
"The fa ther looked at the fi h in his hand and finall y said , " 0. K. take it, and just let yo ur poor old dad starve to death! " .

OUTDOOR GEORGIA October 1941

Stale

No labor of historian , no eloque nce of orator, will stir the heart of yo uth to the love of country, and a desire to emulate the great deeds of the past, like a visit to the 5pot which has been familiar with the presence of great men, or the scene where great deeds have been enacted.
Georgians have shown for many vears due reverence for the State's inspiring hi storic background, the foundation upon which it continues to build. In the cities and countr y side, patriotic societies have identi fi ed for posterity the locati ons of historic shrines with appropriate monuments and tablets, bidding modern generatio ns pause in our headlonll progres a nd refresh ourselves upon the funda mental lessons of the past.
He1e on these historic sites the clear voices of our leaders of the past ring out in friendly encouragement to stick by our ideals and project our efforts, founded upon theirs, toward a grander future. After memo rials had been placed upon the actual locations of historic sites, the need soon becomes apparent for providing, along the roadside, readily legible mark ers to direct the attention of passersby to nearby sites.
To meet this growing need, the Division of State Parks Historic Sites & Mon uments sponsored, in the summer of 1938, a program for placing such ma rkers along Georgia Highways. Man y agencies came to its support: The Work Projects Administration provided research and writing personnel to compose accurate texts fo r these markers, and skilled workmen for the casting of the mark ers. Georgia Tech provided the use of its fo undr y, and supervision of the casti ng. The State Highway Departmen t agreed to tran sport and erect the markers; the Division of Geology offered its aid; and local patriotic societies agreed indi vidually to sponsor markers in their localitie for which they would pa y the cot of materials ($10.00 per marker ) .

Over one hundred of these markers have been cast and erected on sites representing the various phases of the state's history, geology, and scenic attractions. As the first chapter of history is the geo logical story of the land, the Division of Geology has spon sored markers to designate the physical landmarks and the geological divisions of the state.
Thus the tourist passing through from north to south learns the story of the Appalachian Valley- once a great inland sea, of the Appalachian _fountains and their erection, of the ancient cr ystalline belt which has been leveled down to form the Piedmont Plateau , and of the Coasta l P lain which has grown from the debris deposited upon the fl oor of the former ocean which once had its shoreline at Maco n.

OUTDOOR GEORGIA October 1941

He learns how stream piracy caused Tallulah Gorge and Amicalola Falls, how ages of erosion left Stone Mountain a sentry above the countr yside near Atlanta, of the great depths from which rise the fam ous Warm Springs, and of the ranid erosion which formed the colorful Providence Canyons. He learns the tragic story of Chief Mcintosh and Indian Springs ; of the Seminole War, and of the Indian Wars of 1836, of Etowah. He learns of the Confederate State Navy Yard, where ships were actuall y constructed during the War between the States; of the Old Fed eral Wire Road , over which the first telegraph wires in Georgia were stretched.
Historical Roadside markers now point out man y sites significa nt to Georgia's past, and th ere will be many more in the future. So, passer by. lea rn the tor y of the E mpire State of the So uth.
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BOOK RBVIBWS

HISTORY OF THE OKEFENOKEE
By A. S. McQUEEN and HAMP MIZELL

Publish ed b y the Oke f en ok ee Publishing Company, Folksto n , Ga.

For those interested in one of the most fascinating regions on earth, " Hi story of the Okefenokee" ha s much to offer. Not onl y does it give a detailed hi story of this bea utiful swamp, but also relates many ex citing ta les.
After reading th is book one could hardly doubt tha t the a uthors had been acquainted with the Okefenokee for many years-such accurate information on such a va riety of subj ects co uld not have been compiled without personal ex periences over a long period of time.
"History of the Okefenokee" deal s also with the Aborigines, the animals, and the birds of th e swamp. The majestic Sandhill Crane, the nimble deer, the fi ghting " trout", all are described in rich understandable lan guage. In one chapter we find

the alliga tors were once so nu merous and bold that th ey attempted to drag dogs from the swa mper's boats- to kee p th em off the men carried a long pole to which was stra pped bayonets.
In read in g " History of th e Okefenokee" one frequ ently encounters somewhat startling a nd unique incid ents-a handful of men traversi ng miles of unexplored swamp many years ago to drive out hostile Indians; a river, the water of which retains its purity for months; a beautiful queen who once ruled the swamp ; hu ge timber wolves that terrified camper s, and count less others : mystery, folklore and fa ct, all combined to make 'History of the Okefenokee" an interestin g, readable volume well worth consideration for any library.
-C.W .

TAKE CARE OF YOUR FORESTS

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forests pay by intelligent management, including efficient forest fire control.
T ET'S take a quick glance at for-
L est conditions in our state and then see what we might do about it.
First, of the total area of the state, nearly twenty-one and one-half million acres are in forest. This is 57 % of all the land in Georgia and it is land which is not suitable for farming. So it should remain either in forest or in pasture, most likely the former. Now about 54 % of this forest land is farm woodlands - small forested areas attached to farms. So you see the problem is not alone one of grow ing timber on large forested tracts. On the contrary, if the forests of the state are to con tribute as much as poss-ible to its prosperity, the farmers must handle their woodlands right.

What are we doing with this large forest area? Of the 20,562,000 acres in private ownership, 4,979,245 acres were under organized fire protection in 1940, and county-wide protection existed in only 16 counties. F orest fire losses in 1940 were placed at $6,385,579 with 15 % of the private ly owned forest area burned. Ver y little of this forest land has been totally destroyed but it is estimated that about three and one-half million acres have been left in an unproductive condition. In general, studies have been shown that these forests are producing less than one-third of what they co uld be. Here is a tre mendo us loss, not only in the actual money loss of over $6,000,000 each year beca use of fire, but also because the growth is only one-third of what it might be.
It's like growing one-third of a crop of cotton or corn per acre. ow that's plain waste, most of which could be avoided without too m uch expense and certainly with a great deal of future profit to land-owners

Attention Fox Hunters!
Notification has been received that the Field Trial and Bench Show of the Tennessee State Foxhunters Association will be held at Springfield, T e nnessee, instead of Paris, which has been take n over b y a d ef e n se project. The date set for the m eet is October 6-9.
and to the people of the state in gen. eraI.
Just three things must be done--
1. Fire control must become state-wide, that is, all forest lands must be protected.
2. Good cutting practices must be extended to all forest lands so that they will remain productive.
3. Those forest lands with little or no timber on them must he brought hack into production generally by plant ing them with nursery grown seedlings.
It is not really difficult nor too ex pensive to do these things. Naturally, without fire control there can be no forest production. It should, there fore, be extended to the entire state. This is estimated to cost $830,000 more each year than is now expend ed, but since the Federal Govern ment is committed to a policy of fi. nancial support of this activity, it will ultimately cost the State and the owners only one-half that much.
The State now spends some money on fire control and should spend a lot more. The counties also should contribute through special levies, at least a part of this expense. There is authority for them to make such levies but only a few do so. Then, of course, the forest land owners them selves must spend something, for af ter all they should contribute to the protection of their own lands. The cost is only fi ve cents per acre, sure ly a small price for the public and the forest owners to pay for the co operative protection of these assets. Our State Forester and his organiza tion are doing what they can, but with the present inadeq uate financing they are a long way from doing the job as it should be done.

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OUTDOOR GEORGIA October

WyaH Bullock, County Agent at Georgetown, is praucl of " Triple A" his pet quail. She is perfectly perched on Wyatt' s shoulder. " Triple A" hacl a precarious entry into the la ne/ of living as the story below explains.

I S T RIPLE A'' A HAPPY Q U AIL

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FARM chores completed, a couple of yo ungsters in Georgetown turned their attenti on to the fin e art of fi shing.
othing approaches the hilarity of a couple of fa rm boys, headed for their fa vorite fishing hole with hickory poles on shoulders, a can of worms, and wearing those ten-gallon traw hats.
Only this time the lads didn't get to fish. One of them came dangerously near a snake and it resulted in a couple of broken fishing poles and a dead snake. Curiosity seized the lads and out came their knives. They opened the snake and discovered three quail eggs.
The boys reached a hasty decision and a few minutes later delivered the quail eggs to Wyatt Bullock, County
gent at Georgetown. Wyatt secured

a bantam hen to take over the quail eggs. Presently three quail were born but only one lived. Bullock and the boys decided to call it " Triple A" for so me reason.
Triple A reached adulthood. he attended her maternal duties and man y new quail made their home around Georgetown. One day Triple A escaped from the pen and County Agent BMllock was ready for a merry chase. To his amazement Triple A didn't want to get away and would not o much as leave the ground. Instead the bird came to him .
It developed that Triple A was completely satisfied with her home. She had no desire for the wilderness but preferred the sheltered life provided by Wyatt Bullock. Her offspring however retained their wild proclivitie

and none returned home to visit mama.
So today, if you visit the County Agent's office at Georgetown, you may see Triple A sitting proudly on a typewriter or strutting about on a desk. Often the bird will hop on Wyatt's shoulder while he is reading his favorite newspaper as if to say, "Hey, fellow! What's the news? When does the hunting season start?"
Attendants at the state quail farm have reported rare cases where birds collapsed and died from being handled. Triple A has confidence in hu manity. She is the pride of Georgetown and somehow to watch her strut. yo u'd bet the little devil was trying t~ sho w off.

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SNAKES PROVE DEADLY .ENEMY

TO RATS, HELP UHEUK DISEASE

Atlanta Man Buys King Snake to Protect Children

By CHARLES H. WHARTON

A farmer in orth Carolina placed an ad in a local paper for a King Snake--the snake he had was accidentally killed and it had almost rid hi s corn crib of rats. W. M. Auld , of Atlanta, findin g Copperheads too abundant on his three acre place and co nstituting a menace to his children, is seeking four King Snakes to liberate.
We read , more and more, such inciden ts as thes people are grad ually realizing the economic importance of our harmless snakes. The service rendered as destroyers of diseasecarrying rodents and venomous snakes. A prominent physician advances the theory that polio is transmitted by rat fleas- a midwestern state is rocked by a plague, traceable to rats- millions of dollars are lost each year in damage done by rodents.
Even the poisonous serpents serve nature-all vipers feed on warm-blooded prey, but, in populated districts it is advisable to destroy venomous snakes. However, in wild regions accessable only to hikers and nature-lovers, to kill snakes because they are snakes is simply slaughtering interesting creatures. For those who like to camp, hike, or fi sh in out-of-the-way places, to see a beautiful rattlesnake, symmetrically coiled, its soft, velvet colors glowing in the sunlight, is indeed a thrill. Now, even experienced collectors have a difficult time finding
rattlers.
Chicken snakes, milk snakes and rat snakes all receive unwarranted persecution from farmers and city folks alike. Through their occurence about out-buildings some reptiles have received the title "chicken snake" - they should be called rat nakes for rats form a large percentage of their diet.
Besides the snakes that are defi nitely beneficial there are others that, although they inspire terror, are harmless and interesting; such is the Hognosed Snake, or "sprea ding ad-

der. " Believe it or not this snake with the uplifted snout can only rarely be induced to bite, its actions when approached are merely tactics intended to bluff the enemy.
When is a snake not a snake? When it is a lizard, and the above is t he Gloss Lizard or " joint sna ke 11, o brittle ~tailecl, insect-eating rep-
tile often mistaken for a snake .
One of our most inoffensive and economically useful snakes is killed because of its green color, supposedly denoting something poisonous. Actually, nature gave this slender serpent a color that would tend to obliterate or conceal it as it wends its way among leafy boughs, in search of insects. During the mon ths of September. October and 1ovember most snakes go into a state of hibernation, remaining dormant until Spring revives them. Often, several species hibernate in perfect harmony . In the spring and fall when snakes congregate around such dens, even though these places be miles from the nearest house, a man might slau ghter quantities of them, then tell about hi s " accomplishment," as if, by shootin g defenseless creatures, he were doing a great public service.
Few people realize how many boys and men have adopted snake study as a hobby. For them to find a snak e in the fi eld is the equivalent of finding a good mineral sample, seeing a rare bird or

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catching a 12-inch Rainbow Trou t. It is becoming increasingly hard to find snakes in their natural habitat, new trails and new roads have opened up vast areas hitherto untraversed. In the far-away land of India the most dreaded and dangerous snake in the world is protected and respected by natives; thousands die agonizing death each year from its fatal bite. Yet religion protects it. If the King Cobra is protected, it seems the least we could do is to protect our harmless varieties, and understand the part they play giving nature a balance.
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Wildlife Tidbits
WILDLIFE IN THE RAw: Ranger Grady Brock of Pelham, in a rowboat, was patrolling the Flint river. Spotting an old Negro woman on the bank fishing, he asked her if she had a fi shing license and explained he was a ranger for the Division of Wildlife. Perhaps the wind blew away all of his query except the last word or perhaps she wanted to divert the Ranger from thoughts of fishing licenses, but anyhow she yelled back "Naw suh, we don't have no wild life out here!"
CARP A LA PAC E: They say that in some places carp is considered pretty good eating but down in Southwest Georgia, according to Ranger Harvey Pace of Iron City, this is the receipt advocated: "Dress fish well then place on long board and bake for 1 and 1-half hour in hot oven. Salt, pepper and baste with lemon and vinegar. Remove from oven. Throw away carp and eat board."
GETTING THE NEWS WITH GENE : Although Outdoor Georgia last month carried a photo and brief account of 'Gene Tittle's pointer, it was left to the fun-loving Folkston (Charlton County) Herald to tell the real story-the revealing truth. Tattled the Herald about Tittle: "R. E. Tittle, chief of the Okefenokee CCC camp, near this city, was given some very flattering publicity in the current _issue_ of Outdoor Georgia, re~ardmg h1s setter dog. The publication commented that "the dog is well tr~in ed, and a word from R. E. br_mgs action." However, the account failed to mention one of the setter's outstanding accomplishments, a trick no doubt taught by his canny master. The ~tory goes that Mr. L D. Majors. a_ neighbor of the Tittles', had missed his morning newspaper for more than a week in succession. Complaints to t~~ delivery boy brought forth the positive statement that the paper had been put in its accustomed place each
;orni~ g- So !Wr._ Maj~rs ?ecided to
o a little qmet mveshgatmg on his own account, and soon after the pa per was delivered, Mr. Tittle's welltram. ed setter appeared, took the newspaper up in its mouth and

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new construction and further development is continuing.
One of the largest recent undertakings of the Division of State Parks is the development of Fort Mountain State Park near Cornelia, with its 2,000 acres of laurel, hickory, rhodendron , pine, oak and dogwood.
In addition to furnishing recreational sports for Georgians the parks program has another purpose - as an attraction for the thousands of res!less tourists seeking places of Interest and recreation. The mysterious Okefenokee potentially is a greater magnet for them than the Everglades or an y other co mparable region. Kolomoki Mounds, recently acquired hy the Parks Division, is of compelli~g interest to archaeologists. Actually, no state in the East has s? much to offer the holiday population of America as Georgia. Just as our state can and gradually is be~o ming the "sportsman's paradise,,. It can and will become a "holiday haven."
MAGNESIUM IN GEORGI!
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?xide compound is caused to change mto metallic vapor which passes over into a gas-cooled chamber causing the vapor to condense into hard metal.
In Columbia County, Georgia. ~bout 16 miles northwest of Au~usta ; IS located a mountain known as Dixie Mountain. This mountain has been found to be almost pure serpentine and a number of samples tested in our laboratory shows that it is read-
i~loyrtsholuwbhleileinusaacbildes saonudr,cethoefremfoar~eea
siUm compounds and magnesium metal. We believe that before the present emergency is over this mountain will be mined and converted into magnesium metal which eventually will find its way into aircraft such as fighters, bombers, etc.
promptly set out for home. The mystery of the missing newspaper was thus solved, but this happens to be one of the bird dog's best tricks which Mr. Tittle failed to include in ~he list of accomplishments reported m Outdoor Georgia. Until this story became known, Mr. Tittle's Scotch ancestry had not even been suspected by his friends and neighbors." B. W.

OUTDOOR GEORGIA

October 1941

OUTDOOR VETERAN Rev. W. S. eighbors, of Chattanooga, sent in a check recently extending his subscription to Outdoor Georgia for four more years. A retired Methodist preacher, Mr. Neighbors writes he is tremendously interested in outdoor life and principally in hunting and fishing. This is Immensely interesting since Mr. Neighbors is just 81 years young.
THANKS!
R. L Heaton , of Louisville, Kentucky says, "Your magazine is very interesting. I am glad to be on your mailing list."
THEM'S KIND WORDS PAL! C. H. Huey, of Waycross, Georgia had this to say in a recent letter. " I think Outdoor Georgia serves a splendid purpose in advertising our state. Also it is exactly what sportsmen and nature lovers of Georgia are looking for. We need to know more about our state's wildlife but all we have been getting is from the columns of papers and magazines printed hundreds of miles away from the state. So I say: More power to you."
O.K. MR. ATTORNEY
Sam G. Dettelbach, popular young Atlanta attorney has this to say;
Outdoor Georgia Magazine Georgia Division of Wildlife, 422 Stat e Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia.
Dear Mr. Stearns: I have just read yo ur September ~
of 'O utdoor Georgia' and en joyed it immensely. It was, to me, the most enlightening and en tertaining literature upon the Wildlife of Georgia which has ever come to my attention. Its features and photographs would do justice to any magazin e in the co untry.
My interest and appreciation of the natural resources of our state was given quite a boost by your magazine and opened my eyes to a number of Georgia's resources of which I had not known.
Trusting that your publication will con-
tinue in its excellent work and that the Wildlife Division will furth er rehabilitate onr fore sts and streams, I am,
Sincerely,
Sam G. Dettelbach.
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Outdoor Georgia continues to list the best fishing holes in the State. Watch for your county.
FULTON COUNTY
BLACK ROCK-Turn off Lee Street into Campbellton Road and follow signs; Bass, Bream ; $2 a day, $1 half-day; Boats, 50 cents per man.
BULL SLUICE-(Visiting restricted in neighborhood of power dam because of defense emergency.) Twelve miles out Roswell road, turn left at sign, 172 miles on paved road; or 12 72 miles out Roswell road to Brantley Service Station, turn left just beyond station on Brantley Drive; Bass, Cat; Free.
CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVER- Roswell Road, new and old Marietta highways, Gordon Road, Powers Ferry Road, Paces Ferry Road, Mayson and Turner Road go to the river; ask at any of the numerous places near the river where to fish; Channel Cat; cut bait, "stink," dough bait, worms; Free.
LEE'S MILL-From Atlanta, travel to city limits of Fairburn, and left on dirt road five miles; Bass, Bream, Cat; Jack; Boats and Cabins; Fishing, $1 a day.
SULLIVAN'S INDIAN HEAD LAKESixteen and a half miles out Roswell Road to sign; Cat (especially good); one boat ; 50 cents a day, 25 cents half-day.
TWIN LAKES-Take Marietta Road to sign on left (from Atlanta) just beyond Bolton; Bass, Bream, Crappie, Cat; One Boat; 50 cents a day.
CITY OF ATLANTA, PIEDMONT LAKE- Piedmont Park; Bass, Bream; Lures, Minnows, Worms; Free.
GILMER COUNTY
COSSAWATTEE RIVER- South of Ellijay; Red Eye, Cat; Live minnows; Hotel and Rooming Houses in Ellijay; Fishing Free.
ELLIJAY RIVER- North of Ellijay; Red Eye, Rainbow Trout; Red Worms, Flies, Minnows; Accommodations in Ellijay; Fishing Free.
CARTECAY RIVER-East of Ellijay; Cat, Red Eye, Rainbow Trout; Minnows, Worms, Flies; Accommodations in Ellijay; Fishing Free.
ANDERSON CREEK-East of Elijay; Rainbow Trout; Flies, Live Minnows; Same as above.
MOUNTAIN TOWN- West of Ellijay; Same as above.
TURNIP TOWN CREElt- Northeast of Ellijay; Same as above.

GLASCOCK COUNTY OGEECHEE RIVER-Seven miles west of Gibson; Red Breast Perch; Earthworms; Free.
ROCKY COMFORT CREEK- One-half mile east of Gibson; Same as above.
P. H. SWINT'S POND-Three miles west of Gibson; Bream; Yellowjacket Grubs; Boats; $1 a day.
OGEECHEE RIVER-Eight miles south of Gibson; Black Bass, Blue Cat; Live bait, Cut bait; Free.
KENT'S POND- Five miles west of Gibson; Black Bass; Live bait; $25 a season.
GORDON COUNTY OOSTANAULA RIVER-North and west of Calhoun; Cat; Minnows, Crawfish; Free. CONASAUGA RIVER-One mile east of Resaca; Cat; Spring Lizards; Free.
PINELOG CREEK - Near Redbud ; Cat; Free.
DEW'S LAKE-Seven miles east of Calhoun ; Bass, Bream; Artificial Lures and Live Bait; Boats, 25 cents a day; Fishing, 50 cents a day.
HABERSHAM COUNTY CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVER- West of Cornelia; Cat, Bass, Trout, Perch; Artificial Lures, Minnows, Red Worms; Free.
SOQUEE RIVER- West of Clarkesville - Northwest of Cornelia; Same as above.
MUD CREEK- Southwest of Cornelia; Cat, Sucker; Red Worms; Free.
PANTHER CREEK-North of Clarkesville; Trout, Perch; Artificial Lures, Worms; Free.
HARRIS COUNTY CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVER- Bartlett's Ferry Road from Whitesville; Bass, Bream, Cat; Live Bait, Cut Bait, Worms, Lures; Boats, 50 cents a day; Fishing Free.
HENRY COUNTY LAKE AMALLEE- From Atlanta, follow old Macon highway nearly to city limits of Hampton, turn left at sign, 172 miles to lake; Bass, Bream; "Few" boats; $1 a day.
IRWIN COUNTY ALAPAHA RIVER-Ten miles southwest of Ludowici; Bass, Crappie, Blue Bream, Cat; Plugs, Live Bait, Minnows, Worms ; Boats available; Cottages for rent (furnished), Camping ground; Fishing, $1 a day.

MIDDLETON LAKE-Twelve miles east of Ludowici; Bass, Crappie, Bream, Cat; Plugs, Live Bait, Minnows, Worms Boats are available; Camping Ground~ Cabins; 50 cents to $1.
DUNN'S LAKE- Ten miles southwest of Ludowici; Bass, Crappie, Bream, Cat; Same bait as above ; Camping Grounds, 50 cents a day.
MORGAN LAKE-Six miles south of Ludowici; Bass, White Perch; Live Bait; Boats; 50 cents.
COWHOUSE LAKE- Eight miles south of Ludowici; Bass, Bream, Perch; Mil!nows, Worms; Cabins and Boats; $1.
LOWNDES COUNTY
BOWEN'S MILL POND- Eight miles southeast of Valdosta; Bream, Bass; Live Bait, Bill's 13, Shemi-Wiggler; Boats; $1 a day.
MciNTOSH COUNTY Fresh Water
MILLER LAKE- Twelve miles west of Darien; Bream, Bass, Cat; Crawfish, Worms; Boats; 50 cents.
LINE LAKE- Eight miles west of Da rien; Same as above; Free.
MERIWETHER COUNTY WALLACE POND- Atlanta highway, four miles north of Chipley; Bass, Bream, Crappie, Speckled Cat; Lures, Live Bait, Worms, Cut Bait; Boats, 50 cents a day; Fishing, $1 a day for men, 50 cents for women. (Note from Ranger: "Full of fish and affords excellent fi shing.")
MILLER COUNTY
SPRING CREEK- One mile west of Colquitt; Bream, Shell Cracker, Bass, Jack, Warmouth, Crappie, Cat, "More fish in it than has been in 10 years, specially Bream and Large and Small Mouth Bass. Best stream in the South if protected;" Worms, Crawfish, Flies, Plugs; "Few" Boats; Free.
BABCOCK LAKE-Seven miles south east of Colquitt; Same fish as above; Worms, Plugs; "Few" boats; Free.
AYCOCK LAKE-Four miles west of Colquitt; Same as above; No boats; Free.
SHEPARD'S SPRING-Three miles north of Colquitt; Same fish as above; Worms, Plugs, Crawfish; No boats needed; Free with permission.
LAURA BUSH SPRING-One mile north of Colquitt; Same as above.

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1941-42 GEORGIA GAME LAWS
Seasons And Sag Limits

GAME
Bear Deer a (Bucks only) Opossum (with gun and dog) Raccoon (with gun and dog) Rabbit Squ;rrel b
Quail Turkey d Ruffed Grouse Woodcock Fox (with dog only) Marsh Hen

OPEN SEASON (inclusive)

DAILY BAG LIMIT

Nov. 20-Feb. 28 No limit

Nov. 15-Jan. 5

2

Oct. 1-Feb. 28

No limit

Nov. 20-Feb. 28

No limit

No closed season and no limit

Oct. 1-Jan. 15

15

Nov. 20-March 1

15

Nov. 20-March 1 I

2

No open season

No open season

No closed season and no limit

Sept. 1-Nov. 30

25

SEASON BAG LIMIT
No limit 2
No limit No limit
No limit 30 week, also
possession 2
25

MIGRATORY WILDFOWL
Dove Duck f Woodduck Goose f Coot Rail g Gallinule g Jacksnipe

Dec. 1-Jan. 11 Nov. 2-Dec. 31 Nov. 2-Dec. 31 Nov. 2-Dec. 31 Nov. 2-Dec. 31 Sept. 1-Nov. 30 Sept. 1-Nov. 30
I No open season

DAILY BAG LIMIT

POSSESSION LIMIT

12

12

10

20

1

1

3

6

25

25

15

15

I 15

15

TRAPPING

DAILY BAG LIMIT

SEASON BAG LIMIT

Opossum, Raccoon, mink, Fox, Otter, Muskrat (trapping) Wildcat, Skunk

Nov. 20-March 1 No limit

No limit

a, b, d, f, g-see exceptions.
EXCEPTIONS
a. DEER- Nov. I-Jan. 5 - Appling, Ben Hill, Bryan, Bulloch, Camden, Charlton, Chatham, Effiingham, Glynn, Liberty, Long, Mcintosh, Tattnall, Telfair, Ware and Wayne. No open season in Banks, Dawson , Fannin, Gilmer, Habersham, Hall, Lumpkin, Murray, Pickens, Rabun, Towns, Union, Jeff Davis, White, Whi field, Marion, Schley, Webster, Chattahoochee, Muscogee, Stewart, Talbot, Jenkins, Montgomery and Echols.
b. SQUIRREL- Aug. I-Dee. 3I -Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer, Gordon, Habersham, Lumpkin, Murray, Pickens, Rabun, Stephens, Towns, Union, Walker, White and WhitfieldNov. I-Jan. I5 in Appling, Ben Hill, Bryan, Bulloch, Camden, Charlton, Chatham, Effingham, Glynn, Jeff Davis, Liberty, Long, Mcintosh, Screven, Tattnall, Telfair, Ware and Wayne.
d. TURKEY-Nov. I-March I in Appling, Ben Hill, Bryan, Bulloch , Camden, Charlton, Chatham, Effingham, Glynn, Liberty, Long, Mcintosh, Screven, Tattnall, Ware and Wayne.
f. DUCK AND GOOSE-No open season on Brant, Ross' Goose, Swan and Snow Goose. Daily bag limit on Bufflehead and Red Head Ducks not over three in the aggregate. Possession limit not over ten in the aggregate. Hunters may take in addition to 3 geese, 3 blue geese in one day, or 6 blue geese, thus having in possession for two days hunting, I2 blue geese.
g.-I5 in the aggregate of rails and gallinule.

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Librarian
General Libra:ry University of Ga
Athens Ga 6-41


* * COVER PAGES
Charley Langley and Ben Pearson (front page ) admire their trophy, a wild boar, which was brought down in the archery hunt staged this month in the Chattahoochee National Forest. This is convincing evidence of the effectiveness of bow and arrow in hunting. (Photo by Walter Sparks.)
The back page shows the beautiful lookout tower atop Fort Mountain. frank Edmundson, assistant Director of State Parks claims it is possible to look into five states from this tower on a clear day. The five states are; Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.

Pag e

Visual Education . . . . . . . .

2

Comm issioner lack Cra ve y

Archers and Riflemen Seek Deer and Wild Hogs in Chattahoochee Hunt . 3
Ed Wall

Beavers Stage Comeback Aga inst

Extinction

. . . . . . . 4-5

Joe Stearns

30,000 4-H Boys and G irls Working

On Wildlife Projects and

Conservation

6

J. Lloyd Burrell

State Senator Welcomes Franklinia

7

Beverly Wallace

Conservation Please . . . . . .

8

Okefenokee Swamp Ideal Home

for Bees .

9

C. H. Hue y

The Mail Box .

9

Georgia W ildlife Pictures

10-11

Accidents Don't Happen, They are

Caused

12

This Month's Recipe . . . . . .

12

Georgia 's First Vanishing American

13

Joe Stearns

You Tell ' Em . . . . . . .

14

Joe Stea rn s

All Predators Not Destructive

15

Charles H. Wha rton

Undeveloped Southeast Georgia land Offers Serious Fire Problem to State . 16
Walter Dyal

Scandal! Prize Fox Hound Trees Coon 17
Charles H. Wharto n

Where and What They're Biting .

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1941-1942 Georgia Game laws .

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~J?J!JJll ED!JtJffJ!JJl 1
In keeping with a resolution passed by the State Board of Education, the Department of Natural Resources now is making serious efforts to provide the means fo r visual education in Georgia . The resolution provides for 25 minutes each week in all Georgia schools for conservation education on Natural resources.
We plan to purchase, make and otherwise secure educational films and set up a permanent state film library that will be available to Georgia schools at all times. Programs of this type already are in full swing in W isconsin, Tennessee and many other states. All states now engaged in visual education report great interest and high pra ise from all sides.
Many conservation-minded Georgians realize the importance of visual education and letters reach the Department of Natural Resources daily lauding our new effort.
Small voices far in the distance are making half-hearted attempts to discredit Georgia's entry in visual education. We have undertaken this program after much survey and study. Federal agencies were consulted, educational departments were contacted and all were 100 o/o in favor of th is new state project.
Our Educational Director will use the department projector and show our educational films in schools where projectors are not available. He also will give short talks on our conservation work. Thus the program of conserving our fo rest, wildlife and mineral resources will be graphically presented to the school children. It also serves to inform them on the vast possibilities of development of the resources in our state. Georgia 's first line of defense for future natural resources and the proper handling of them is the education of the young people.
The first film is now being completed by the Department of Natural Resources. So far as we can determine, it is the first full length picture of its type on Georgia. It has nothing to sell but Georgia and nothing in it but Georgia scenes.
This picture shows some of the myriad points of interest in our state. It shows forest fire scenes and the cause and remedy. It reveals various minerals found in the state and shows what the Wildlife Division is doing to make Georgia the parad ise for hunters and fishermen. Coastal fishing, Okefenokee Swamp, mountain resorts, magic hill and many other subjects are included in this 900 foot show. When this film is ready, the Department of Natural Resources will present it to the public and let Mr. and Mrs. Georgia pass judgement on the merit of visual education.

NOVEMBER, 1941

OU'Jr JD)(Q)(Q)~ G!EO~GITA

Volume X, No. V

JOE L. STEARNS, Manag ing Editor

ZACK D. CRAVEY, Editor

BEVERLY WALLACE, Feature Editor

Published monthly by The Georgia Divis ion of Wildlife, 422 State Capitol, Atlanta, Ga. , in the interest of Georgia wildlife and for fishermen, h unters, nature love rs and conservation of natu r a l resources. Sin g le copy, 10 cents. Yearly subscriptions to U nited States and its p ossessions, a n d Can ada, 75 ce nts; other countr ies, $1.50. Subscribers must notify us of change of address four weeks in advance of next p ublication date, giving both old and new address. Contents of this magazine must not be r eprinted without permission. This m agazine is g lad to receive p h otos, drawings, stories and articles deaJing with outdoor subjects, but cannot guaran tee r etu rn of unsolicited contributions nor insu re against their loss. Contributions not accompanied by sufficient postage will not be r eturned. E n tered as 2nd class matter Au gust 31,
1940, at th e post office at Atlanta, under t he Act of March 3, 1879 .

ARCHERS ANDRIFLEMENSEEK
~ee/L ~ 'k/dJ e#~

IN CHATTAHOOCHEE NATIONAL FOREST HUNT

BY ED WALL
SUPERVISOR OF RANGERS
FIVE short years ago Commissioner of Natural Resources Zack D. Cravey entered a cooperative agreement with the U. S. Forest Service on a plan for game management in the Chattahoochee ational Forest in orth Georgia and thus set up a program that has - not just hoped for success, bu t has developed into an astounding, complete success in all details.
This land has been protected jeal-

archers and well over 200 hunters. The first regulated small game hunt fea turing ruffed grouse and gra v squi rrels was conducted the week starting October 27. It marked the first time ruffed grouse and squirrel were hunted on the management area. The success of the small hunt has been carefully recorded and now is expected to become a perman ent part of the program in the management area.
Commissioner Cravey predicts one of the finest hunting

Qame M~ P~~ ,(Jiuuut:ud Qame -
Jach. eiUWe11 PIUUiicU SpleH.JitJ dl~ g~

seasons in many years. Survey work of state Rangers indicates a banner year for wildlife in Georgia. Mr. Rountree, of Thomasville, an authority on South Georgia hunting recently declared 1941 as the best hunting year in a decade.
Huntin g license agencies in all 159 co unties in the state report splendid sale and are far advanced over sales of la t year. Buy yo ur licenses nowit i cheaper than payin g a fin e and saves embarrassment. On the back page of this magazine will be found valuable information on the huntin g season. Stud y this page and keep it for future reference.

ously by both U. S. men and state rangers. The section was restocked with game and fi sh and toda y it stands as one of our state's " happy hunting grounds."

Regulated fishing in the beautiful mountain streams where brook, rainbow and brown trout may he found in large numbers annually attracts thousands of Georgians as well as visitors from many other states.

Deer, turkey, and r uffed grouse are plentifuL One regulated deer hunt was held and another started ovember ll, and lasted through ovember 22. Last year 145 hunters bagged 22 huck deer. Also the first regulated archery hunt in the country was staged with 35 participating. This year the archers were allowed to go after deer, wild hogs, squirrels, turkeys, and raccoons.
This year's hunt drew over 30

Note the stealth and readiness which must attend the ways of those who seek the deer with the longbow . Here Mr . and Mrs. Hugh Thompson creep ca utiously a long ready for immediate action in the reg ulated hunt staged in November in the Chattahoochee National Forest .
(Photo by Walter Sparks)

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Beavers Stage Comebac Against Extinctio

Meet the beaver! Note the large flat tail. It serves as a steering wheel and this little fellow can certainly make time in the water. Georgia laws forbid trapping, shooting or for that matter it is illegal to even molest the beaver. This picture was snapped in the Chattahoo chee National Forest by Walter Sparks . It required plenty of patience to get the picture for
the beaver is very timid.
Construction of Dams Considered Splendid Feat of Engineering
It is extremely difficult to believe a beaver can haul enough twigs and sticks and mud to construct such a dam as is shown here but seeing is believing . And this isn't particularly a large dam as beavers have built them many times this long . This dam, destroyed, would release thousands of gallons of water which would rush furiously to sea and talce along with it,
tons of valuable top soil.

THAT old expression, "work like a beaver" is well spoken . 1ot on.
ly is a Beaver able to labor indus. triously for long homs but the little fellows also have engineering ability to an amazing degree.
Most states have set up laws to protect the heaver and justly. Georgia does not allow the destruction of Beavers, even forbidding acts of molestation. Scarcely a few years ago the heaver was about ready to join the ranks of the dodo bird and the Heath Hen. Protection came at a timely moment. Today the Beaver is staging a gallant comeback and winning its fight for existance in the civilized "!J.d. The mama Beaver will bring up a family of from three to six each year. The yo ungsters are extremely friendly and playful. America can ill afford to lose the beaver. These beautiful animals serve a useful purpose in the skillful construction of dams; powerful dams that conserve water where it is desperately needed.
In building a dam the Beaver accomplishes in addition to water conservation, flood con trol and prevention of certain types of soil erosion. Top soil that would eventually finish up in the Atlantic ocean often is kept intact due to the efforts of beavers. Beavers can take a bow also for saving fish life and promoting new aquatic homes for fish. It seems that fi sh thrive around dams and beaver h o m es . Survey reports agree that fish are not included in the beaver diet. In stead the beaver likes the bark and

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Jf'in Gallant Fight Georgia Gives Protection

twigs from birch , popular, willow, elm and aspen . In the fall the beaver
will cut down several small trees with
his sharp chisel-like (incisors) teeth and anchor these trees on the bottom of their home lake. This is their supply of winter food .
The average weight of an adult beaver is about 30 pounds but many of the large specimens will weigh as much as 60 pounds. Perhaps Aunt Fannie told Uncle P ete or at least somebody told somebody that a beaver was trapped that weighed 125 pounds, thereby setting a new world's record for grandpa beavers.
Beavers in Georgia construct very few dams. The animal r equires deep water for its h ome and Georgia has plenty of lakes and streams with sufficient depth . The beaver fur is cherished in the manufacture of coats since the hide furnishes soft, silky fur. The principle enemies of beavers are wildcats which is why the beaver builds his home out in the water away from the shores. Web-footed, the beaver swims mostly through the use of its feet and uses its large flat tail more or less as a steering wheel. The tail also is flapped on the water as a warning signal of dan ger.
Wildlife rangers over the state send the encouraging news that beaver homes have been seen in many sections of Georgia. Protected and unmolested Georgia beavers in a few years will develop into a splendid crop. The soft fur that only a beaver provides will decorate many an expensive coat perhaps ten years hence.
There are certain times of the year fo~ trapping beaver. Getting them at th1s time insures perfect pelts. Shot or trapped out of season is foolish waste as the beaver hide is absolutely Worthless at such a time. Uncle Sam has set up homes for beavers in refuges, thus America is assured the beaver will be with us for many years to come.

U. S . District Forest Ranger Arthur Woody measures a tree cut down by beavers, and stripped of bark. If yo u have ever whacked away on a tree this size, you know what a job it is to bring it down . Often several be avers will work on one tree as there is no such thing as a
boss in the beaver world. Help Georgia protect the beavers! They're well worth it.
Water Supply Saved Through Effort Of Busy Beavers
An ax could do no better job. These small trees fell before the chisel-like teeth of beaver and were qragged off to take part in the construction of a dam . The beaver will cut off the limbs of the tree and use each piece individually. He is not wasteful. Some small trees are taken to the bottom of the lake and anchored there in the mud for winter food. The
beaver is no fool and ba rk is a tasty dish when the north winds howl.

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5

30,000 4-J/ Boifd- ~ Qak 'W~
fln 'W;MJ;,je PIUJ.jecU ~ eW"V~~~LH'

Members ol the 4-H Club attending the Wildlife Conservation Camp at Camp Wahsega are given some ideas ol fish hatchery work at the Rock Creek Hatch ery. Girls were as interested
in the work as the boys

By J. LLOYD BURRELL
A ssistant E ditor G eorgia Ag ric ultu ra l Exte nsion Service
Y OU IG rural people have taken up the crusade to make Georgia more abundant in wildlife r esources.
For years, game and fish in Georgia have been harvested with little regard to conservation. Only in recent years has attention been focused to conserve and expand the dwindling supply of wildlife.
ow Georgia's 4-H club members are on the march for thi s state to become more abundant in wildlife. Theirs is a stor y of concerted effort, planned and projected by the youngsters themselves, plus cooperation and enco uragement by adult leaders.
This year finds more than 10,000 Georgia rural boys and girls actively engaged in 4-H wildlife pro_iects, while an additional 20,000 are carrying out projects which contribute to the conservation and advancement of game and fish.
Under the leadership of G. V. Cunningham, state 4-H leader for the Extension Service in Georgia, 4-H boys and girls first took active interest in

wildlife work about six years ago. Few members enrolled at that time ; today the enrollment is counted by thousands.
Four-H club members have a varied program for wildlife conservation. There are proj ects in quail raising, production of cover and feed for wildlife, and forestry practices dealin gs with fire prevention and other things which tend to aid the expansion of game and fish.
Perhaps the biggest job for these young people is the education of others to become conservation - minded. The wildlife projects are probably the most influential in putting this campaign across, for it gives the 4-H members something concrete with which to prove to others that proper conservation of game and other wildlife is essential.
Quail raising creates great interest for the club boys and girls. Through the cooperation of the state Division of Wildlife, these young people have been given quail eggs from year to year. These eggs were hatched under bantams and raised to maturity. Thence released to the wild, usually on the farm where the mem-

her lived. Caring for quail until they are mature is lots of trouble but it is worth it. It's fascinating work; these rural young people like it.
But that's not all. Usually a wild. life conservation program for the farm is inaugurated. Borders to pro. vide cover and feed for game are established. Other crops are planted to provide feed, so that when the quail are released, food and cover will be in abundance.
Then comes the protection feature. The farm is posted and soon, several covies of quail are Jiving on the farm. In this way, it doesn't take long until this area is filled with game, then, if care is exercised in hunting, a supply of quail will remain for next season. Several 4-H members are interested in fish rearing. Pools have been built and fish ponds on Georgia farm today show a tremendous increase over previous years.
Some critics may dismiss the wildlife conservation progress of Georgia 4-H members as being small and unheeded. But even allowing that their work will not influence oth ers, the potential value of these projects is great. Most of the current 4-H membership will be Georgia's citizens of tomorrow. It will be those who will determine the destiny of wildlife conservation.
Georgia's 1941 champion 4-H Club wildlife conservationist. Jimmy Chastain, Cobb County, and Myra Brookins, ol Baldwin County, were
chosen lor outstanding wildlife project

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OUTDOOR GEORGIA November 1941

State Senator, Band, Stage Welcome As Franklinia Returns to Georgia

Lovely Flowering Tree Brought Back Home
By Airplane

By BEVERLY WALLACE
Featu re Editor
,l MO G the strangest tales of
.t\.. "exiles" is that of the lost
Franklinia returning to Georgia after an absence of more than a century and a half.
Actually the Franklinia is a flowering tree but for all the fanfare which atten ded its recent arrival in Georgia, it might have been visiting royalty. For there was a band , a State Senator, the Director of the State Division of Parks, and many state and local dignitaries to welcome it at ceremonies on the outskirts of Ludowici. There was even a marble marker to commemorate its early existence in Georgia and its even tual return.
Surrounding the Franklinia is a story full of romance and intrigue. Long ago, Oct. l, 1765, to he exact, America's first native botanist, John Bar tram, of Philadelphia, discov ered the lovely white flowering tree flourishing on the hanks of the Altamaha river.
It grew no where else in the entire country and so intrigued was the Philadelphian with its rare beauty that he named it for his good friend , Benjamin Franklin- the Franklinia Altamaha. A healthy specimen was selected and wi th infinite care carried by horseback over mountains, down valleys, across creeks and through hundreds of miles of wilderness to Philadelphia.
There in alien soil, the Franklinia Altamaha was planted and flourished. but for some strange reason it dis-

R. F. Burch, director of State Parks, presents Mary Dan iels, Treasurer of the Long County Garden Club a sprig of the lost Franklinia Altamaha . (Photo by Waycross Journal Herald ).
appeared altogether from the shaded banks of th e Altamaha in Georgia. Its discovery and di sappearance becam e a sort of legend and through the years botanists from all par ts of the nation searched in vain for the lost Franklinia.
Finally, Mrs. Helen Williams Coxen, State Senator for the Second Senatorial District, led a movement which was to result in its return to the woods of the Altamaha. As a child, she had roamed the swamps and forests with her father looking for the lost tree and for years she had dreamed of transporting hack to Georgia a descendant of that early Franklinia sent to Philadelphia.
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OUTDOOR GEORGIA November 1941

to its slow j ourney North so many years ago, the "exile" came back by plane. The Ludowici high school band played and from a fla g-draped stand speakers welcomed the slender, leafless specimen which they planted in the rich soil from which its illustrious " forbear" had co me. Appropriately enough two great, great grandchildren of Bartram - Jean Fleming, of Hinesville, and Bartram Love, Jr. , of Ludowici- unveiled the marker which Wiley Moore of Atlan ta donated.
* * * * * *
~EOR~IA GIRLES
A wealth of Georgia history is living in her trees.
The Wesley Oak set deep her foot, and waved across the seas,
Then spread a ready temple for a leader set apart,
And wrote the sacred story on the pages of her heart.
The Live Oaks on St . Catherine 's for centuries have told
Of doughty old adventurers wh o came in search of gold;
And old Franciscan Fathers who, in that ancient day,
Paddled in peraguas on their mercy-laden way.
Lanier Oak threw her gracious arms like shawls about Lanier
And whispered lovely sentences into his listening ear.
Today the branches sing t he ir line s whenever winds pass by,
And sweep the unseen instruments between the marsh and sky .
The Treaty Poplar listened in when Redmen signed their rights
To all the Creek lands in the state, and left them for the Whites.
It saw th e chieftain 's blazing home, and the slaying after dark,
But keeps the secrets hidden deep beneath the ancient bark.
Th e " Tree that Owns Itself" knows how a man can love a tree.
The " Toombs Oak" keeps a re cord for the University .
The " Big Oak," down in Thomasville, was old before the town
Had built its first log cabin, or had laid a roadway down .
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Betty (top left) sits up comfortably in his master's arms. This toy terrier, held by Horace Stanton of Decatur, owner, is a pert little devil and just loves to perform . Charles Wharton' s coon dog (top right) shows what a good coon dog will do when a coon is in the tree tops. He is a veteran of many coon battles as his scars will testify. Ward Rozier, popular Brunswick sportsman, hangs on to some swell bird dogs owned by Mrs . Louise Ledsinger, of Brunswick. The canines are on the job when there is some quail hunting to be done . Zipper {lower left and right) owned by F. M. Crawford, of Blairsville, unlike most dogs, has a hankering for water. It is a coker spaniel and a swell pooch to have for retrieving . (All pictures by Joe Stearns).

CONSERVATION PLEASE!

1. Which of the following fish are the most destructive to other fish life?
a . Carp b. Catfish c. Gar d. Jackfish
2. Deer when friahtened elevate their tails
a. To scare the intruder away b. As a danger signal to others of their kind c. To cause "buck fever" d. To flaunt defiance
3. Bantams are not exclusively used for raising quail because
a. They crush too many tiny quail b. They peck the little quail c. They lack "mother love" d. They transmit poultry diseases
4. In Georgia the name "Jackfish" usually denotes a
a. Pickeral b. Northern Pike c. Gar d . Bullhead

5. Vogel State Park is located in a. WarP. County b. Chattahoochee National Forest c. Middle Georgia
5 . The most sporting method of catching Brook and Rainbow Trout is by a. Angleworms b. Wet flys c. Seining d. Dry flys
7. The first cooperative agreement for wildlife protection between the state and federal governments was signed by a. Alexander Stephens b. Zack D. Cravey c. Thomas Watson d. Joe Mitchell
8. Which figure is nearer correct for the number of state parks in Georgia? a. Five b. Twenty c. Ten d. Fifteen

(Answers Will Be Found On Page 12 )

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Okefenokee Swamp Ideal

Mr. R. F. Burch Division of State Parks Department of Natural Resources Atlanta, Georgia
Dear R. F.: I enjoyed reading your article in
OuTDOOR GEORGIA and I am glad to know that you are back in conserva tion work. I think the magazine put out by your department is one of the best being put out by any department in the country. I enjoy reading it every month.
I have never met Commisioner Cravey but I would appreciate your telling him that I for one think the magazine is excellent and that I am delighted with the work that all of you are doing.
Keep up the good work and with best wishes, I am,
Sincerely yours,
SAM F. BREWSTER, Director
Dept. of Buildings and Grounds, Auburn, Alabama.
Fishermen Agree
With Sherman
About War
War is making it hard on fisher men. The world conflict, the Spanish Civil war, and the Sino-Japanese war have had and are having a decided effect upon them.
Because of the Spanish war, the fly fisherman is using gut substitute leaders instead of the old gut leaders which came from Spain.
England and Norway have been the principal makers of fishing hooks fo r generations and now this source of supply is cut off.
War in China has stopped the importation of tonkin cane, from which fly rods are made and rod manufacturers are fearful that the present supply will last less than a year.
Many fly makers are having trouble also, as many feathers used in making flies came from abroad. Prac tically all hackle feathers came from China, which is blockaded.
This might look like a boost for the manufacturer, but it has been suggested that fishermen buy their tackle soon-before war conditions make it hard to get enough material to supply the demand.

Home for Georgia Bees

Endless Stream of
South Georgia
''Gold'' Yielded
BY C. H. HUEY
T UCKED in the depths of the Okefenokee Swamp are thousands and thousands of bee colonies, yielding an almost endless stream of " South Georgia gold. "
And gold it really is, this delicious wild honey found in such abundance in this vast widerness. While no one can actually say h ow many colonies there are, beekeepers claim that 10,000 is a conservative estimate. So honey in the Okefenokee is a big industry.
Beekeepers up and down the famous Suwannee River have contacted the sources of nectar-and there are many. Beginning in early spring there are maple and ti-ti, then come the flows from tupelo and, later millions of gallberry hush blossoms swaying in the gentle breeze. Seven hundred square miles of vast,

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trackless jungle with something always in bloom.
While it is seldom that wild life in the Okefenokee disturbs the apiaries, once in a while a " killer bear " will emerge from the interior and swipe a taste of the amber liquid. Once that happens he doesn't stop but continues his raids until eventually he meet his Waterloo.
Generally speaking, Okefenokee natives are conservative of fish and animals in the swamp hut when predators molest lives and property, they rise up in arms. A hear will wreck an apiary by picking up hives, one at a time, walking back into the swamp, scattering frames as fast as he cau get out the honey. A big eater, he will devour the contents of three or four hives at the time and return the next day for more. So the beekeeper feels justified in halting him.
Thus along with the ducks and herons, eagles and 'coons, 'gators and bears, the bees dwell in the Okefenokee and the beekeepers come to gath er their "So uth Gorgia gold."

This bear has staged his lost raid. Caught in the oct, this huge block bear was put out of business by O kefenokee beekeepers.

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J-Rustic, eh, wotl A picture of this type could ~

moke you think of, " Down by the old mill strell.,

Co'i- 2 - Don't
leap frog

ever get in grass.

tHoertehiinskiangvisgirtoarsswhohpopehrosppjuesdt,p~~lot

or something up to the fourth floor of the State

and is shown perched comfortably on the ledge. -

What is it?. It's a day old quail and he is behind TOll

Slider's finger. 4 - The Big Apple is more than a do:

It is an industry in Habersham County and this loeli
monument to a big red apple is located in C~~;:

Ga . S - Here is Georgia's biggest foe to stale b ill

6-C:" stray cat. Cots destroy one million birds in Geot!l111

annually (see Wharton story on page 15).

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moke swell pets if you can get one young enoU!I ,i.

train. A coon is always identified by his black tiKIil1 Cute, huh?. 7 - Sam Dettelbach visits the ~o":''"u~

pen at the state quail farm and is shown po1ntm!l,.,

of the birds. Roddenberry, beor recently

Note bird by wooden of Folkston , Georgia, killed near the Okefeno

kipseeegdsSr.wy~.asnmg-PT0oW1u1t.l,lo1.1

you see what the inside of a bear looks like. 9-JIII'C't

says you can't grow catcus in Georg ia . Here is O

doing very well ot Indian Springs State Park. J0 -Two

swell pointers do their stuff on Senator Edge's place

~~~ from Tho masville ond on both the points were birds.

~ s a beautiful sight in any hunting sector. J J-

j ro~ds and more crowds stormed the wildlife exhibit

f

121"deHeSreoutihs

eastern Fair an amethyst

held in in the

October in Atlanta. raw. This stone was

~un near Covington and has a commercial value.

ole how nature has carefully carved the stone-al-
~ost all amethyst come with this cut feature. J3 - Tom

n:rveyk can make a casting rod do tricks and this pike hive~ new what happe ned when Tom started to snatch
ju: '"j It was b~autiful to watch Tom make that hook wo:d ~gs and In general- misbehave. J4 -This is a

kn o uck and a beautiful bird indeed. If you would

''W;d your ducks be sure to get the newly published

lmifeon11uns~t,utuctke",

booklet published of Washington, D.

by C.

the
J 5

American Wild- An interesting

try, J'6nt to Bonnell Stone, father of Georgia fares-

dish f - Oh Boy! Somebody's going to have a swell fool 0 steaming marsh hens for dinner . It's quite a dish

ACCIDENTS DON'T HAPPEN, THEY ARE CAUSED

A LTHOUGH there's always an open season on some kind of game in Georgia, there's never an "open season" on mankind.
At least there isn't supposed to be one. Yet all too often someone's life is snuffed out by the careless handling of a gun. And in each instance the tragedy could have been prevented if all of the "Ten Commandments of Safety" had been faithfully observed.
So, with hunting licenses on sale, the Wildlife Division takes this opportunity to ask (hunters to pledge observance of t}\e motto, " Safety First- Always" and to review the Ten Commandments of Safety:
(Recommended by The Sporting Arms and Ammunition
Manufacturers' Institute)
"SAFETY FIRST-ALWAYS!"
Make That Your Motto
l Treat every gun with the respect due a loaded gun. This is the cardinal rule of gun safety.
2 Carry only empty guns, taken down

or with the action open, into your automobile, camp, and home.
3 Always be sure that the barrel and action are clear of obstructions.
4 Always carry your gun so that you can control the direction of the muzzle even if you stumble.
5 Be sure of your target before you pull the trigger.
6 Never point a gun at anything you do not want to shoot.
7 Never leave your gun unattended unless you unload it first.
8 Never climb a tree or a fence with a loaded gun.
9 Never shoot at a flat, hard surface or the surface of water.
10 Do not mix gunpower and alcohol.

._u_ THIS MONTH'S_ RECIPE _ ~
Outdoor Georgia offers a couple of swell ideas on baking fish for this month. Try your luck with these:
BAKING
In the Ground
Four pounds or more of large fish should be cleared of gills and viscera, but head, tail, fins and scales may be left intact. Lean fish should have three cuts across the skin on both sides. About 2
teaspoons of salt and % teaspoon of pep-
per should be well spread on the inside of the body cavity. A few thin strips of bacon or salt pork may replace the salt and a few thin slices of onion added if desired. Dig a trench about 10 inches deep and of equal width and long enough to hold the fish; in this hole build a fire, adding wood until about 2 inches of coals are formed. Remove all flaming wood and about half the hot coals. Smooth out the remaining coals and cover with 1 inch green grass. On this place the fish and cover with another inch layer of grass, then cover with the rest of the live coals. Cover with warm earth from around the edges of the hole. At the end of one hour, the fish should be carefully removed. The flesh may then be separated easily from the ined ible portions.

4-H Club Takes
Great Interest In
Conservation
Under the inspirational guiding hand of Mr. G. V. Cunningham, of Athens, who is the State 4-H Club leader, members all over Georgia are including conservation work in their studies.
The Division of Wildlife was quick to take advantage of the splendid opportunity to stress conservation with the young people of Georgia and has shown some excellent wildlife films at several summer camps for the 4-H Clubbers.
The Future Farmers of America also will come in for some extensive attention from the Wildlife Division as will the Boy Scouts.

Answers to

CONSERVATION PLEASE

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5.B

2.B

6.D

3.D

7.B

4.A

8.B

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'POSSUM HUNT
' Evening,' Mr. Possum, dis is "Howdy,'' and "Goodbye."
What's de use a-swingin' on a limb what's up so high?
Don 't yuh know de dogs is catch yuh, and dere's business in der call?
Don 't yuh know de highes' limbs jes' gives de furdes' fall?
Br'er Possum, dere's been eight er us a trampin' fru de dark,
Besides de houn 's whut's come along to cheer yuh wid der bark.
Sweet 'toters is been dug a week, and waitin' fer tonight.
And we'se been waitin' wussern dot for jes' one possum bite.

We brung along dis lantern heah jes' so as yuh could see.

An' I jes' nachelly feels like dot I oughter shake dot tree.

Don't keep us all a-standing here jes' gazin'

at de skies;

,

Look right dis way, Br'er Possum, an' I'll shine it in yo' eyes.

'Sides, look what I is fix fer yuh:-a split stick fer yer taiL
De houn's is mighty anxious, an' de houn' dogs never fail.
You's et de ripes' 'simmons-Who shuk dot tree?-Whoopeel
You 's down! Yuh tail is in de crack! Come on to town wid mel
-Christine Park Hankinson \

BAKING Fireless Cooker Method
4 lbs. dressed fish, split if large 3 Tbsp. salt % Tsp. pepper % Cup minced onion (with any juice) % Cup cooking oil
Have heater stone of the firel ess cooker hot. Put fish in lower kettle, add seasoning and oil, spreading all over the surface of the fish. Heat kettle over fire, place stone and kettle in cooker. If upper kettle is not in use for cooking, fill it with boiling water. Allow to cook one hour. Pour juices over fish when serving.
Forest Ranger Uses
Bloodhounds to
Trap Burners
AI Fleming, ranger with the Bryan County Fire Protection Unit, recently purchased two Bloodhounds which he plans to use to track down people maliciously setting fires in his county. Although some landowners find it necessary to do controlled burning, few of them want their valuable land ravaged by destructive fires.
Malicious woods-burners in Bryan County will do well to think twice before causing future conflagrations if they know that Bloodhounds will soon be on their trail.

OUTDOOR GEORGIA November 1941

jill>
GEORGIA'S FIRST
''~

Must Dave Suddenl.v., Met a Native Black Bear!

B'l Joe Stearn~

are strong enough to crush the bones of an ox.

PROBABLY one of the greatest inspirations man can have for

Still the bear is lovable, amusing, ludicrous, and about

fast running is to suddenly confron t

the most human and under-

a bear. Actually the Georgia bear is

standing of our wild animals.

a timid animal and under normal

It is playful, quick to learn

conditions will not attack a man but

tricks and make no mistake-

-some of the fellows who work and

it definitely is not clumsy. On

live around the Okefenokee Swamp

the contrary, the bear is a fast

have no desire for a sudden and close

mover. One man claims a bear

introduction. These men have deep ' -... stayed ahead of his car for a

respect for the power of the black

considerable distance although

bear.

"' he was moving at 30 miles per

A story-true in every de-

hour.

tail- comes from the Okefe-

Known as a black bear, it occas-

nokee and tells of a man who

ionally isn't black at all. Colorations

felt the fury of a black bear

often have been known to include

that had bitten off its toes to escape a trap. Discarding the trap the bear made for the man and slapped him with his

yellow-brown, olive-yellow and mouse color. Black bears mate during April. Cubs, from one to four in a litter, are born in winter dens and are taught

paw. It was a powerful lick,

hard enough to send the man

sprawling, paralized, and with

busted ear drums. Timely in-

terference by friends saved

this man's life.

earl y to climb trees. In fact most bears consider trees natural refuges from all dangers.
People around the Okefenokee are puzzled as to where the swamp bears go in the winter, though they are abundant in the spring, fall and summer, roaming about the prairies in search of turtle eggs and much-beloved honey. Sometimes, when it is difficult for bears to obtain natural food, they take to stealing pigs and acquire a fondness for pork.
The picture on this page carries a story. This bear, now about ready to spend a long time on the floor as a rug, came out of the Okefenokee Swamp into a farmer's yard and swiped a pig. He carried away several more pigs and then the farmer took up his rifle. And that's the end of a bear story.

The Georgia bear will weigh on an average of from 200 to 400 pounds but one bear weighing 600 pounds was killed in the Okefenokee.

Lem Griffis of Fargo, recalled seeing a large bear leaving the bank of Billy's River in the Okefenokee, and as he started to swim to the other bank, a large alligator went after him. In the middle of the river there suddenly was a swirling and foaming of water. The fight was brief and the bear came to the surface, shook his shaggy head and continued his journey to the other bank. A few days later a large 'gator was found, pretty well chopped up, floating down the river. It isn't hard to figure when experts say the terrible canine teeth

Th is is what is left of what once was a 350 pound O ke fenokee black bear. He devoted a part of his life to snitching pigs and a farmer near the Okefenokee Swamp put an end to his plunderin g . Tommy Roddenberry, of Folkston (/eft) and Charles Wharton are shown holding up his hide . He was nearly six feet across the shoulders. (photo by Joe Stearns ).

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T OM WADE, the Columbus, Georgia angler, has divided fish into four classes : salt water, store, conversational and fresh water. He also states that fishermen are divided into many classes but none of them count.
Tom continues: "Salt water fishing is the same as unskilled labor and it is to fresh water fishing what chicken stealing is to quail hunting and is indulged in only by anglers with milder forms of insanity. For violent cases, fresh water fishing is alone designed. When a fisherman gets so crazy he will believe in anything, he goes after trout, bass, pike, pickerel and illusions. The salt water fisherman gives fish credit for having a little common sense and often baits his hook with something a fish can eat.
" The fresh water fisherman , however , believes fi sh are as fo olish as Prime Ministers,~ongenital idiots and people who put vinegar and sugar on lettuce salads. Only on rare intervals he will offer the fish something digestible but his great delight is to r ow around a lake with a suitcase full of funny looking obj ects known as plugs, spinn ers, wabblers and flies.
"'Plugs' look something like cucumbers, bananas, darning needles, dill pickles and carrots, with a spring of rash. Mter a 'Plug' is shaped and colored, a few hooks and spanglers are added to it. It is then thrown to a fish in the helief that they have an insatiable appetite for ornaments taken off old uniforms of Napoleon's guards.

" 'Spinners' are assorted pieces of tin , with hooks fore and aft. The man who invented them had an idea fish ate ear rings for breakfast, identification disks for lunch, and suspender buckles for dinner.
" A ver y excellent bass 'Spinner' is made by taking a fireman's shield, dyeing it red, tying it to a pair of boy's skates, attaching it to a mouse trap, and dragging it through the water at a speed not exceeding twenty miles an hour.
"The general effect of these plugs and spinners upon the fish is the same as that pro duced when you drag a red, white and blue bandana in front of a horse and try to make him think it's an oat, or drag a set of false whiskers in front of an emaciated kitten in the conviction it will mistake it for a saucer of cream."
And there you have Tom's ideas on fishing. It isn 't hard to realize that Colonel Wade has suffered some swell experiences on fi shing trips.

Wild Duck Booklet
Provides Interesting
Facts and Drawings
Washington, D. C.- Entitled " Wild Ducks," a 35-page booklet on popu. Jar wild ducks in the United States, recently published by the American Wildlife Institute, contains, in addition to 16 color plates of wild ducks dra wn by the well-known wildlife artist Fred Everett, descriptive text by three emplo yees of the Fish and Wild. life Service, United States Department of the Interior.
Col. H. P. Sheldon, nationally known outdoor writer , contributed a short stor y, "Two Families" . Frederick C. Lincoln , in charge of the Section of Migration and Distribution of Birds, wrote an article on "The Waterfowl Flyways."
For each color plate of a specjes of wild duck, a description of the bird , its habits, and a map of its breeding and winter r ange was prep ar ed.
The foreword was written by Dr. Ira N. Gabrielson, director of the Fish and Wildlife Service. The booklet may be obtained at 25 cents a copy by writing to the American Wildlife Institute, Investment Building, Washington , D. C.

Paten t 1837596 F or all cars w it h r esr open ing. I nstall in one mi n ute wit hout tools, nothing disutrbed about car . Can't gas your dogs ; 14x14 ventilator scr een for a ir. Keeps dogs cool, $16 .50 deliver ed. Cut price if for car s back of 1939, if in
stock. N arne car . Sales a gent wanted in every county. S. l. TAYLOR MFG. CO., Dept. 5, MT. STERLING, KY.
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Complete service for your car at Sam Vess' Station, corner Mitchell and Washington Streets. Cars greased, washed, polished and parked. Flats fixed . Waco-Pep gasoline . We also sell fishing and hunting licenses. (Adv.)
OUTDOOR GEORGIA November 1941

ALL PREDATORS NOT DESTRUCTIVE!

By CH ARLES H. WHARTON
ACRAITY stalk, a pounce, and an other feathered victim goes the way of 3,900,000,000 birds; the stray cat has struck again. Gaunt from hunger, savageness in ever y_feature, the stray cat stands as a maJor men ace to our wildlife toda y. According to the International Cat Society 120, 000 000 cats exist in this country, 65 per' cent of them are rovin g strays.
.Allowing each cat fifty birds annuall y it is not hard to realize the enormous toll they take, not men tioning countless young rabbits and squirrels. Recently a sportsman told me if he killed a stray cat before go ing huntin g, he always had good luck. Maybe good fortune did smile upon him, for a worthy deed, some thing every conscientious person should do. A bell tied on a eat's neck will cut down his chances to destro y
birds.
Str ay dogs also constitute a m enace to wildlife-conservation minded owners of hunting dogs should see that they are well-fed and not free to destroy game.
Many ground-dwelling creatures eat bird eggs, but most of them offset the damage done by their useful or sporting qualities. Dr. Gardner Bump, of the ew York Conserva tion Department found that 104 out of 548 wild Grouse (Bonasa umbelIus togata) nests were destroyed by predators. Of these, 86 were raided by ground-inhabitin g animals. Fox destroyed 34; skunks, 15; weasels,

13 ; Raccoons, 5 ; dogs, 8 ; Red Squirrels, 5; Woodchucks, 4 ; snakes, 2.
Among the predatory animals, hawks and owls are often confused and killed through lack of knowledge of their identity or habits.
There have been instances where a farmer, on shooting a hawk seen catching a chicken, found a rat in its talons instead. Only two hawks occur in Georgia, the Sharp shin and Cooper's hawk, which can be classed as harmful, game animals and song birds constituting 95 per cent of their food. Locally they are known as " blue darters," and characterized by a low, swift flight. The larger slow-fl ying hawks, termed "chicken hawks," and consequently killed, are beneficial. Farm pests, such as rats and insects, often compose as high as 80 per cent of their prey.
Owls, fortunately, escape the hunters hand more readily by reason of their nocturnal proclivities, and this is well indeed, for they are among the farmer 's best friends. Few better rat-exterminators could be had than a nest of owls in one's barn. The Great Horned Owl, whose blood-con gealing screams sometimes cause : night-hunter 's spine to tingle, is the onl y owl really detrimental to game. Thi s predaceous creature, the larges owl in Georgia, is one of the few animals known to feed upon the skunk. Whatta bird!

WHOC '(00 C.OIH'
TO PLOW YOUit FIRE FUitRDW
HI?

AINT EVEN PLANNING
ONTO IT NOW-PUT IT OFF TOO LON& LAST YEAR ANDAINT
MUCH TO PROTECT.

Need of Education
Emphasized at
Ranger Meets
State Wildlife Rangers gathered at a series of district meetings recently to air their mutual problems and make plans for fall and winter work in the fi eld.
At each session, State Wildlife, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U. S. Forest representatives led discus sions on various phases of conservation work. State Wildlife Director Zack D. Cravey took opportunitY to impress his men on the necessiiy of coupling education with enforcement, bringing out thP fact that lllll!'ss hunters and fishermen are sold on the EED for conservation , enforcement will be a most difficult j ob.
J. E. Wall, supervisor of ran gers, arranged for and presided at all the conferences. ight sessions were enlivened with the showing of films on quail propagation, value of beavP.rs, locations of and facilities at state parks.
Fred Ruff, in charge of game management for the U. S. Forest Service, explained relation of his organiza tion to that of the state; and John Blosz, in charge of federal fish hatcheries for Georgia, and J. V. Kelsey, ;rame management agent, described the work of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Meetings were held in Canton, Milledgeville, Jesup, Thomasville and Newnan .
Kircher, Oettmeier Speak !t Forestry Meet
The Society of American Forest ers, the national organization of technically trained foresters, will hold its 41st annual meetin g in Jacksonville, Fla., December 18, 19, and 20, 1941.
Dr. Clarence F. Korstian , president of the society and dean of the School of Forestry, Duke University, Dur ham, . C., has announced that the program will comprise four half-day sessions devoted to professional for estry, and an ali-day field trip. The opening session, Thursday morning, December 18, will have as its theme "The Forestry Situation in the South." The two speakers represent ing Georgia are Joseph C. Kircher , U. S. Forest Service, Atlanta, Ga. , and William M. Oettmeier, Superior Pine Produ cts Co., Fargo, Ga.

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f!J!JtM. gell.itut4 d}.ill,e p~ to girds

Forestry Division
Sets Up Splendid
Fire Break Service
BY WALTER DYAL
DIRECTOR OF STATE FORESTRY
0 E of the state's most serious forest fire hazards lies in Southeast Georgia where thousands of acres of woodlands, swamps and ponds stand undeveloped. Unless this land is broken up by roads and effective firebreaks are set up, it will remain a major fire threat constantly.
The Georgia Division of Forestry maintains and operates tractor and plow units and a Repair Shop at the District Headquarters at Baxley, Georgia. These plowing units are op erated and maintained for the purpose of construction and maintenance of firebreaks in the woodland in assistance to the active fire protective organizations cooperating with the Division of Forestry in fire prevention and suppression.
This service is available to the landowners in these active fire prevention units through a charge of $2.00 per mile for construction of breaks, $1.75 per mile for maintaining breaks and $ 1.50 per mile for grading existing CCC truck trails.
Fire break construction and maintenance is done in the fall and winter just before or during the early part of the fire season. In maintaining constructed firebreaks the soil is thrown out one year and pulled in the riext with a maintenance disc harrow plow. This removes all inflammable material from the firebreak. When a fire occurs in areas where firebreaks have been constructed and maintained the fire ranger, patrolman or private fire crewman can
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is cooperating with the Division of Forestry in maintaining a system of fire protection.
This summer and early fall have been busy seasons with the personnel of the Baxley Repair Shop who have been working away on plowing equipment trying to get it repaired and out in the field to the Unit Rangers and Tractor Drivers who were anxious to get the plowing done on cooperators' land before fire season sets in. Cooperators in Southeast Georgia feel that the nominal cost of plowing and maintaining firebreaks justifies the expense and numerous requests are being received by the Division of Forestry for this type of work.

Forest Service worker, with powerful tractor, plows a firebreak through timber land in
Southeast Georgia.

FASTER UPHILL
A forest fire runs uphill faster than downhill because the heated air risin11 over the fire creates a draft which draws the flames upward. After passing the crest of a hill the fire travels along more slowly down the other side.

usually stop the fire along the edge of the plowed break.
In constructing new firebreaks the plowing is done across pine fiats and hills taking advantage of every branch or swamp which are natural firebreaks in wet seasons. However, during extremely dry weather a fire may start in a swamp and then a break acts as a check on the fire spreading from the swamp to the hills and pine fiats.
Some landowners have discontinued the old system of cleaning and raking around each pine tree being worked for naval stores. Instead of raking around the trees they have firebreaks plowed and have a fire fighting organiza tion of their own to aid the Unit Ranger and Patrolman in extinguishing any fires that are set on their land. This is especially true where a county

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GOOD TIMBER
By Douglas Malloch
The tree that never had to flght That stood out in the open plain. For sun and sky and air and light, And always got its share of rain, Never became a forest king But lived and died a scrubby thing . The man who never had to toil By hand or mind ' mid life's turmoil, Who never had to win his share Of sun and sky and light and air, Never became a manly man But lived and died as he began. Good timber does not grow in ease; The stronger wind, the tougher trees. The farther sky, the greater length; The rougher storms, the greater strength. By sun and cold, by rain and snows, In tree or man good timber grows. Where thickest stands the forest growth We flnd the patriarchs of both. And they hold converse with the stars Whose broken branches show the scars Of many winds and much of strife This is the common law of life .
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OUTDOOR GEORGIA Nuvember 1941

Scandal! Woods Ring With Laughter
As Prize Fox Hound Trees .. a Coon!

BY CHARLES H. WHARTON
FOX around Americus last month hid in their holes and trembled with fear, all except five. These five, two red and three grey, attempted to outwit 140 of the South's best fox hounds, and came out second best. Two crafty red fox cleverly enlisted the aid of a hollow log and alternated on the weary dogs until a suspicious hunter plugged one end of the log and put a finish to th e busin ess of hide and seek.
Approximately 75 hunters from Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississip pi, and Ten nessee participated in the highly successful hunt. It was the annual meet of the Georgia Fox Hun t e r 's Association. Three former state champions joined in the main hunt, two from Georgia, and one from Tennessee. Nearly fi ve hun dred attended the barbecue

given after the hunt and the b ench show on the 22nd.
Of all the events occuring during the hunt the one provided by Ang Turner's dog was the most humorous. Ang's dog, it seems, in a moment of exhileration, decided he would "get the meat," promptly treeing a six pound 'coon , much to the merriment of the other hunters.
At the dose of the three day chase "Scott," a July own ed by A. T. McKenzie, of Mon tezuma, held the all-age cham pionship. "Ken t u c k y Buz zard," a Walker, of C. D. Presscott, of Wrightsville, and the dog that won the Derby Event the day b efore, placed second. A July, " Rapp," cap lured third place. His owner is F. B. Little of Fort Valley.
Fox hunting has long been a favorite sport around Americus. As in other sports strange quirks of fate are not rare. Henry Wiggens, ard ent

devotee of the chase, used to own a " darn good pack of dogs," but now he has only two fit to give a fox a run. Mysteriously, four of his best dogs were recently killed; one was kicked by a mule, one was bitten by a snake, a car ran over one, and one died of distemper. Another is crippled from contact with a barbed wire fen ce. Though unable to participate in the hunt, Mr. Wiggens was nevertheless a cheerful onlooker. Doggone it!
Jul ys and Walkers o re favorite foxhound breeds. Jean, a July, shows the action of a
fine hound. (Photo s by J. Earle Johnston ).

Henry Wiggens restrains his two fo xhounds, Jean and George, both eager for action in the
fox hunt held recently at Americus.

STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC., REQUIRED BY THE ACTS OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST 24, 1912, AND MARCH 3, 1933 OF OUTDOOR GEORGIA, PUBLISHED
MONTHLY AT ATLANTA, GEORGIA FO R 1941
State of Georgia County of Fulton
Before me, a otary Public in and for the State and co unty aforesaid, personally appeared Zack D. Cravey, who, having bee n duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the editor of the Outdoor Georgia and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management, etc., of aforesaid publication for th e date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, as amended by the Act of March 3, 1933, embodied in section 537, P ostal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, to wit:
l. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managin g ed itor, and business managers are : Publisher, Division of Wildlife, 422 State Capitol; Editor, Zack D. Cravey, 412 State Capitol; Managing Editor, Joe L. Stearns, 422 State Capi tol; Business Manager, Joe L. Stearns, 422 State Capitol.
2. That the owner is: Division of Wildl ife.
3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees, and other ecurity hold ers owning or holding l per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other ecurities are: one.
Zack D. Cravey.
worn to and subscribed before me this 17th day of September, 1941,
Pat Cooper, otary Public

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MITCHELL COUNTY
FLINT RIVER - Newton, River Bend Park, Nine miles South of Albany ; Bass, Bream, Channel Cat; Flyrod, Crawfish, Lucky 13 or River Runt for Casting, Cut Bait for Cats; "Lots of places to put your own boat and motor in the river- River Bend Park, Waldon Springs, Holten's Camp, or Newton ;" Free. Ranger suggests a guide as Flint River is "very swift and rocky." Arrangements can be made at New ton.
GEE PONDS - Fifteen miles West of P elham; Bass, Bream, Shell Cracker, Speckled P erch; "Best fishing, hand poles with pond worms;" 25 cents a day.
MORGAN COUNTY
LAKE BRANTLEY, LAKE RUTLEDGE-Hard Labor Creek Area, Two miles Northeast of Rutledge; Bass, Bream, Pond Cat, Blue Cat; Live Bait for Bass, Liver for Cat, (No Shiners) ; Cottages, Special Arrangements for Camping Parties; Fishing permits Free at CCC Headquarters at lakes.
JACKS CREEK- Four miles North of Bostwick; Cat; Live Bait; Free.
APPALACHEE RIVER - Two miles South of Bishop on Bishop-Bostwick Road; Carp (Bread and Cotton), Cat (Liver); Free.
NEWTON COUNTY
J ACKSON LAKE-Georgia Power Company lake, Fourteen miles South of Covington; Bass, Crappie, Bream, Cat; Minnows, Worms, Plugs; Boats available ; Fishing Free.
(Ranger reports : "Waters Bridge on Covington-Monticello Road one of best places for Bass and Trout. Use artificial minnows for casting and live minnows from banks; Crappie and White Perch are caught with angle worms on the lake, also Warmouth and Red Breast Perch; Jackfish caught with live minnows.")
HAYNES CREEK-Seven miles Northwest of Covington; Bream, Cat; Worms.
ALCOVY RIVER-Three miles East of Covington; Carp, Cat, Bream; Worms Dough Balls.
YELLOW RIVER-Three miles West of Covington; Bream, Cat; Worms.
SOUTH RIVER- Ten miles Southwest of Covington; Bream, Cat; Worms.
LANIER COUNTY
BANK'S MILL POND- Near Lakeland; Bass, Bream; Live Bait, Bill's 13 ; Boats, $1 a day.
CLINCH COUNTY
SUWANEE RIVER- Near Fargo; Bass, Bream, Red Breast Perch and many other
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vaneues; Live Bait, Bill's 13; Lem Griffis' Camp, $2 a day.
McDUFFIE COUNTY LITTLE RIVER-Fourteen miles from Thomson ; Catfish; Beef, Liver, Minnows; Free. BRIER CREEK - Nine miles from Thomson; Same as above.
OCONEE COUNTY FACTORY POND, APPALACHEE RIVER-High Shoals; Bass, Bream, Pond and Blue Cat; Live Bait; Free. BARNETT SHOALS POND, OCONEE RIVER- Five miles East of Watkinsville; Same as above. CARITHERS MILL POND - Appalachee River, Athens-Monroe highway, nine miles from Monroe; Same as above.
PIERCE COUNTY BIG SATILLA RIVER - Southwest Pierce County, near Blackshear; Bass, Bream and many other species; Minnows, worms, Lures, Flies ; Free. LITTLE SATILLA RIVER- Southeast Pierce County, near Patterson; Same as above. BIG CREEK- East Pierce County, near Bristol ; Same as above. FISHING CREEK - East of Bristol; Same as above.
BIG HURRICANE - North of Blackshear; Same as above.
LITTLE HURRICANE-North of Blackshear; Same as above.
RABUN COUNTY POWER COMPANY LAKES: SEED, RABUN, BURTON-Visiting restricted in immediate vicinity of power dams; Bass, Bream, Cat; Free, on permit from Georgia Power Company. Good accommodations in Clayton and on lake area roads. TROUT STREAMS-See Game Management Area schedule elsewhere in this edition.
ROCKDALE COUNTY PARKER'S LAKE - Private lake, see Kelly Tumlin at Kelly Tire Shop on Stone Mountain Road near Avondale for permit at 50 cents a day; Inquire in Conyers how to reach lake; Bass, Bream, Jack, Cat; One boat.
SEMINOLE COUNTY BIG LAKE-Off Highway 38 (State), 84 (Federal), Four miles South of Iron City; Bass, Bream, Speckled Perch, Carp, Cat;

Live Bait, Worms, Cut Bait, Lures ; Boats, 50 cents a day; Fishing, S1 a day.
SPOONERS SPRINGS-Off Highway 38 (State), 84 (Federal), Five miles South of Iron City ; Bass, Bream, Shell Crackers, Jack, Speckled Perch, Cat; Worms, Live Bait, Lures; Boats, 50 cents a day; Fishing, $1 a day.
RAYS LAKE- Off Highway 38 (State), 84 (Federal), 12 miles South of Donalsonville; Bass, Speckled P erch, Bream, Shell Crackers, Jack, Cat; Worms, Live Bait, Lures; Boats, 50 cents a day.
SUMTER COUNTY FLINT RIVER INN-River bridge on Route 280, Cordele-Americus; Black Bass, Bream, Crappie, White Perch, Channel Cat; Worms, Minnows, River Runt; Store, Flowing Well, Shelter, Cooking, Restaurant, Boats (50 cents a day); Fishing Free.
TAYLOR COUNTY McCANTS POND- Highway 3, North of Butler ; Bass, Bream, Perch, Jack, Sucker; Minnows, Plugs, Red Worms, Grasshoppers; Boats, $1. NEISLER POND-Three miles East of Highway 3, on Macon-Columbus Road; Same Fish and Bait as above; Boats, 50 cen ts. PARKS POND- Howard, Highway 96; Same fish and bait as above; Boats, 50 cents.
GUNS RIFLES AMMUNITION ALL OUTDOOR
EQUIPMENT
Bech c. q'UVf'f
HARDWARE CO.
ATLANTA. GA.

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1941-42 GEORGIA GAME LAWS
Seasons And Bag Limits

GAME
Bear Deer a (Bucks only) Opossum (with gun and dog) Raccoon (with gun and dog) Rabbit Squirrel b
Quail Turkey d Ruffed Grouse Woodcock Fox (with dog only) Marsh Hen

OPEN SEASON (inclusive)

DAILY BAG LIMIT

Nov. 20-Feb. 28 No limit

Nov. 15-Jan. 5

2

Oct. 1-Feb. 28

No limit

Nov. 20-Feb. 28 No limit

No closed season and no limit

Oct. 1-Jan. 15

15

Nov. 20-March 1

15

Nov. 20-March 1

2

No open season

No open season

No closed season and no limit

Sept. 1-Nov. 30

25

SEASON BAG LIMIT
No limit 2
No limit No limit
No limit 30 week, also
possession 2
25

MIGRATORY WILDFOWL
Dove Duck f Wood duck Goose f Coot Rail g Gallinule g Jacksnipe

Dec. 1-Jan. 11 Nov. 2-Dec. 31 Nov. 2-Dec. 31 Nov. 2--Dec. 31 Nov. 2-Dec. 31 Sept. 1-Nov. 30 Sept. 1-Nov. 30 No open season

DAILY BAG LIMIT
12 10 1 3 25 15 15

POSSESSION LIMIT
12 20 1 6 25 15 15

TRAPPING

DAILY BAG LIMIT

SEASON BAG LIMIT

Opossum, Raccoon, mink, Fox, Otter, Muskrat (trapping) Wildcat, Skunk

Nov. 20-March 1 No limit

No limit

a , b, d, f, g-see exceptions.
EXCEPTIONS
a. DEER- Nov. I-Jan. 5 - Appling, Ben Hill, Bryan, Bulloch, Camden, Charlton, Chatham, Effiingham, Glynn, Liberty, Long, Mcintosh, Tattnall, Telfair, Ware and Wayne. No open season in Banks, Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer, Habersham, Hall, Lumpkin, Murray, Pickens, Rabun, Towns, Union, J eff Davis, White, Whitfield, Marion, Schley, Webster, Chattahoochee, Muscogee, Stewart, Talbot, Jenkins, Montgomery and Echols.
b. SQUIRREL - Aug. I-Dee. 3I -Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer, Gordon, Habersham, Lumpkin, Murray, Pickens, Rabun, Stephens, Towns, Union, Walker, White and WhitfieldNov. I-Jan. IS in Appling, Ben Hill, Bryan, Bulloch, Camden, Charlton, Chatham, Effingham, Glynn, Jeff Davis, Liberty, Long, Mcintosh, Screven, Tattnall, Teiiair, Ware and Wayne.
d. TURKEY-Nov. I-March I in Appling, Ben Hill, Bryan, Bulloch, Camden, Charlton, Chatliam, Effingham, Glynn, Liberty, Long, Mcintosh, Screven, Tattnall, Ware and Wayne.
f. DUCK AND GOOSE-No open season on Brant, Ross' Goose, Swan and Snow Goose. Daily bag limit on Bufflehead and Red Head Ducks not over three in the aggregate. Possession limit not over ten in the aggregate. Hunters may take in addition to 3 geese, 3 blue geese in one day, or 6 blue geese, thus having in possession for two days hunting, I2 blue geese.
g.-IS in the aggregate of rails and gallinule.

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General Libr~ry

University of G.a

Athens Ga 6-41

* * COVER PAGES
Warren Vicknair, young Atlantan, (front page) is convinced Christmas is 0 . K. Papa Vicknair wants his son to enjoy the pleasures of hunting as he grows up and instructed Santa Claus to bring Warren a double-barrel shotgun. Warren in his new hunting clothes, immediately took to the woods with his Fox Terrier.
Providence Canyons (back cover) in Stewart a nd Lumpkin Counties is an inspiring sight to behold but it also is a lesson - a grave lesson on soil erosion. Pictures by Joe Stearns.

!fn CCkis !fssue

Gift of Natural Resources
Comm ission e r Z ack Cra vey

Pag e
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Christmas Greetings

3

Over Million Fish Released .

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Joe Stearns

Mineral Sales in Georg ia Soaring

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Ca ptain Garland H. Peyton

Christmas Joy Fades - Yehudi Is Gone 7
Joe Stearns

Conservation Please!

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Sketches at Management Hunt .

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Ha rry Rose lle

Timber!
Walter Dyal
Georgia Wildlife Pictures . . . .

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Polluted Georgia Waters Carry Disease 12
Charles H. Wharton

Georgia Oddities

13

Joe Stearns

Winter Splendor of Georgia's State

Parks

14

R. F. Burch

Know Your Ducks

15

Beve rly Wallace

Places to Hunt in Georgia

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You Tell 'Em . . . . .

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Joe Stearn s

It Is Unlawful

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Fires Spring Up Throughout State

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The Mail Box . . . . . . .

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Where and What They're Biting

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Gift of Natural Resources
Your Department of Natural Resources has worked diligently that it might bring to the people of Georgia a worth-while Christmas gift and it has been successful in its effort. As 9 result of these efforts, there will be more fish in the streams and rivers; more game in the fields; more trees in the forest; more mining operations and more hours of wholesome recreation in Georgia parks for the coming year.
Over one million fish have been released in public waters this year. It has been hard work and I am proud of the state workers who have given ungrudgingly of their time and labor that our streams and rivers may be well stocked for Georgia fishermen .
The Division of Forestry has used its modern fire equipment to control fires and has a splendid record of results to present to Georgians. The nurseries have turned out thousands of pine seedlings which have been planted in various sections of the state.
The Division of Parks presents a new record of attendance in state parks to prove that it has provided relaxation and recreation throughout the year for Georgians. Careful, planned work was necessary to keep the parks in perfect condition with their scenic beauty unscarred.
The Division of Mines has contributed notably and importantly in uncovering new fields of minerals which will bring new wealth to Georgia.
The Game Management Areas in the Chattahoochee National Forest were jealously protected in cooperation with the U. 5. Forest Service and provided splendid hunts for Georgians back in November.
The state quail farm distributed thousands of quail eggs county agents, 4-H boys and girls, and F.F.A. boys.
In general , the four divisions of the Department of Natural Resources have combined efforts to make Georgia a better place
in which to live. If we have made our people happier by any of
the above results, then our job has been well done. We can only promise that 1942 will spur us on to new and greater efforts to make our people proud they are Georgians.
From the Division of Natural Resources and all its employees, we send greetings and best wishes for a merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

DECEMBER, 1941

OUT10>00IR?. CGIE0 IR?.GllA

Volume X, No. VI

JOE L. STEARNS, Managing Editor

ZACK D. CRAVEY, Editor

BEVERLY WALLACE, Feat~re Edifot

Published monthly by The Georgia Division of Wildlife 422 State Capitol, A tlanta, Ga., in the interest of Georgia wildlife and for fishermen , hunters, nature lovers and eonservation of natur ai resources. S ingle copy, 10 cents. Yearly subscrip tions to United States a nd its possessions, and Canada, 75 cen ts; other countries, $1. 00. S ubscr ibers must notify us of cha n ge of addr ess four weeks in ad vance of next publication date, g iving bot h old and new address. Contents o f t his mag a zine must n ot be r eprinted withont permiasion. This mag azine is g lad
to receive photos, drawings, stories and articles d ealing w ith outdoor &objects, but cannot gua ran tee return of unsolicit ed con t ribut ions n or insure against their loss. Contributions not accompan ied by sufficient postage will not be r eturned. Entered as 2nd class matter August 31,
1940, at the post office at Atlanta, under the Act of Mar ch 3, 1879.

Fisherman's Prospect For 1

C. C. James is counting and weighing the fingerlings. At this stage of life, the fingerlings are able to take care of themselves and will thrive when placed in lakes and ponds. At the right the state truck is ready to leave the hatchery with a load of fingerling wh ich will find new homes in many sec-
ions of the state.

Here C. C. James, superintendent of state hatcheries, is placing the fingerlings into cans for distribution to understocked streams
and rivers.

OVER MILLIO
O VER a million fish-if you don't believe it you can count 'em
-have been placed in the streams, lakes and rivers of Georgia by the Division of Wildlife during 1941.
From the state hatchery at Summerville alone more than 425. 000 cold water fish were released. And before the curtain falls on 1941 about 200,000 additional speckled and rainbow trout will be given their freedom in state waters.
C. C. James, superintendent of state fish hatcheries, is optimistic about next year's fish program inasmuch as plans for two new hatcheries already are underway. Down in Walton County near Social Circle, there soon will he a modern hatchery designed to supply Geor-
gia with many thousands of warm water fish. The other hatchery will he built at Miona Springs near Oglethorpe, Georgia. Also, plans are being completed for the con struction of a series of rearing pools in Rabun County.
In addition to the state-wide distributiOD program, C. C. James has managed to find enough time to write a pamphlet on the con struction and management of fish ponds, and during the drouth directed the state rangers in fish rescue work. This undertaking result ed in saving over 300,000 fish that would have been lost had they not been returned to " live" water.
Through cooperation with the . S. Fish and Wildlife Service, it was possible to fi]l
a majority of both State and Federal 6sla
applications.

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twoNew Hatcheries
jre Planned

FISH RELEASED
In addition to th e Summerville hatchery, fish were liberated from State hatcheries at Richmond Hill in Bryan County, and Bowen's Mill near Fitzgerald.
Hatchery operation is interesting work but the hours are long and the work hard . Considerable technical knowledge is necessary. For example, trout spawn but once a year. It is necessary to know when to "strip" or take the eggs from the fi sh. The water must be ju t the right temperature if the e eggs are to hatch and develop into fingerlings. One trout will usually give up from 4,000 to 7,000 egg . They are then mixed with the milt of the male in order to fertilize them.
The hatchery workers also are required to study the diet of various fi sh. Beef hearts, dried buttermilk, fi h meal, rolled oats and prepa red food s are fed the fish to supplement their natural diet.
When fish reach the fingerling size they are ready to he moved into streams. They are taken from the hatchery, weighed to determine the count and placed in container that resemble large milk cans. Then are moved into suitable, understocked waters and released.
Public wa ters are always given preference over priva te ponds in the restocking program.
Thi year's distribution con ist of bream, catfish, perch, bass, speckled and rainbow trout.
. Fi hing pro pects for Georgia are gettmg brighter every day.

Dumping fingerlings into container before weighing and measuring. (Top picture ). Here is the last step, into on understocked stream go many fingerling and in the future they will offer some rea/ sport for fish e rmen . All
photos by Joe Stearns.

Taking fingerlings from the holding ponds. Checking size and getting them ready for the containers. J . B. Walker (left) and Grady
Bussey handling this operation .

Mineral Sales In Georgia Soaring; Outlook Extremely Bright For 1942

By Captain Garland Payton
DIRECTOR OF MINES
PRODUCTI0 I and sale of Georgia's mineral raw materials hows an unprecedented increase for 1941. According to present indications, the income from the sale of Georgia minerals this year will break all records. The outlook for 1942 is more promising than for any year in the history of the department.
A report recently submitted to Commissioner Zack D. Cravey covering operations of the Division of Mines, Mining and Geology for the period January 1- 0 ctober 31, 1941, reveals an increase in mineral production for 1941, and the promising outlook for additional mineral industrial development for 1942.
In keeping with the policy of economy promulgated by Governor Tplmadge, this Division, like other divisions in the Department of Natural Resources, has operated on a reduced budget with consequent r eduction in technical and other p er sonnel. Despite this reduction, r egular services to the public have continued, such as free consultation service to land owner s, field examination of prospects, answering hundreds of letters of inquiry or requests for information, con tinuing our cooperation with the several Federal agencies, sponsoring and supervising the State-wide Mineral Survey, utilizing WPA labor, maintaining a laboratory for free analysis of rocks, minerals and ores, and preparing school collections of rocks and minerals. In addition, we have handled the work of coordinating mines and mineral producers in Georgia for receiving preference rating for priority purchases under order issued by the Federal Office of Production Management.
nder this plan the Division of Mine , Mining and Geology ha op
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erated during the first ten months of 1941 at a saving of one thousand dollars per month approximately, for regular maintenance operating costs, as compared to the same period in 1940.
Georgia is proud of the list of stra getic, critical and essen tial minerals which she is now supplying to the present ational Defense program. It is fortunate that we had already in operation, our cooperative Statewide Mineral Survey which provided from 200 to 450 laborers, technical supervisors and other personnel with which to prospect for minerals considered essential to ational Defense. The result of this prospecting has been most encouraging. We have found a number of new deposits ~f iron ore, manganese ore, mangamferous iron ore, barite, asbestos, mica , magnesium minerals, chromite, and refactory clays.
As a result of these discoveries, approximately 20 new mining opera tions have been launched with an output of raw mineral materials which not only will add greatl y to the de

fense program but will in addition provide employment for from 300 to 500 citizens of Georgia and bring in approximately four million dollars additional income per year.
Our laboratory has processed more than 1800 amples in ten months this year. More than 2700 analyses have been made which, if paid for at commercial rates, would have cost more than $8000.00. We now have a cera. mic engineer who is testing various clays and is preparing to make rock wool from many of our mineral raw materials. Among our research discoveries are the following:
(1) Preparation of magnesium co mpounds from Georgia serpentine. The e compounds co uld be reduced to produce magnesium metal;
(2) Preparation of potassium sulfate and alumina from Georgia seric ite ;
{3) Te ti ng and verifying or disprovin g th e claims of certain inven to rs fo r eq uipment or processes they ha ve developed. In this way we en-
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J. Goldstein, assistant chemist, is shown here at work in the chemical laboratory of the Division of Mines, Mining and Geology at the State Capitol
OUTDOOR GEORGIA December 1941

Q:hristmas j o~ jfadrs

... Yehudi Is Gone
By JOE STEARN S

Dr. an d Mrs. L W. Mitchell, of Augusta, have little claim to happiness this Christmas. Their pet dog, Yehudi, is dead.
Yehudi won no blue ribbons nor did she have papers a yard long for she was li ttle more than a plain dog of doubtful ancestry, but my, what 0 persona lity .
Dr. and Mrs. Mitchell loved this simple dog. She was about three hands high or less, and solid black. So black it w as difficult to see her at all after dark. Her large black eyes spoke friendliness and companionship. Yehudi, it is claimed, was half cocker-spaniel and half chow. No better watch dog ever lived and yet Yehudi never hurt a living thing nor bit anything in her 14 months of life.

It seems that Arky, the cook,

to ok Yeh udi to the store. Yehudi

loved to trail the cook up that wind-

ing path from the country home to

th e store: This time, Yehudi saw an -

ot her dog and playfully chased it

onto the hi ghway. An automobile,

exceeding the speed lim it, cut short

th e life of a swell pooch. The car

d id n't stop but the man behind the

wheel must have known he had

brutally ki lled somebody's pet. If

tha t man, whoever he is, could have felt the frie ndship of that dog, if he

Polly, sette r own ed by Ralph Metz, of Atlanta so mewhat resemble s Ye hudi.

cou ld have patted that graceful black head and looked into those soft

black eyes, he would have made some effort to stop his car.

One thi ng is sure, if there is a Heaven for dogs, Yehudi is there now.

Every evening the Doctor, after closing his dental office, would head for market to get his pet some canine delicacy. Upon arriving home, no matter what the hour, Yehud i would be waiting under the chinaberry tree (where she now is buried) her shaggy black tail wagging a sincere welcome.

Mrs. Mitchell has many chickens. When one or more would get loose, Yeh udi wo uld catch the chicken, place her large paw on it and wait for Mrs. Mitche ll to put it back in the pen . A small chicken died one day and the fa mily found Yehudi about 50 yards from the house, where she had dug a hole, carefully buried and covered up the dead chick.

It's goi ng to be lonely this Christmas without Yehudi . This writer would li ke to get a puppy for these folks as a Christmas present, some bright little Fox Terrier perhaps, to try to take the place of a wonderful dog th a t lived much too short a life.

Yehu di was to have been the mother of her first puppies in two or th ree wee ks.

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Conservation Please ~
1. In the past few years Georgia trap pers and hunters marketed more fvrs of what animal?
a . house rat b. raccoon c. mink d. muskrat e . opossum
2. Dvcks that eat fish may be recognized by their
a. ability to dive b. swift flight c. very narrow bill d . long necks
3. State game management areas are a . a group of farm lands under test control b . South Georgia tracts for expe rimentation with deer c. cooperative areas in the Chatta hoochee National Forest. d. local quail-breeding areas controlled with the help of F.F .A. boys
4. Snakes hibernate during the winter months becavse
a. food is scarce in the winter b. they get tired of man's persecu-
tion c. they must keep body tempera-
ture within certain limits d . they must rest up before bearing
young in the Spring
5. Commissioner Cravey's new ruling states that soldiers stationed in Georgia wanting to fish and hunt have to pay
a. a higher license fee b. no fee at all c. a non-resident license fee d . a regular state license fee
6 . If you have a 'possum and a 'coon of equal size, which has the longer teeth?
a . the 'possum b. the 'coon c. both have teeth the same size
7 . Beaver, which are increasing in Georgia, build dams across streams in order to
a . increase the fish supply b. flood wooded lands and cause
the trees to die, thereby making them easier to cut c. stop the current so they won't be washed downstream d. surround their " house" with deep water, submerge the entrance, and protect their anchored food supply
(Answ e rs on Page 19)
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Harry Rosso//, outstanding young artist with the U. S. Fores t Service (center) sketched off a few scenes and people as he saw them recently at the Managed Hunt, held in the Chatta hoochee National Forest. Top left shows Ken Rogers, ace photo9rapher. Middle left is Mrs. Ed Wall and just above shows a couple of hunters who take time out from deer hunting for lunch.

d- Ranger Woody, top center, greets a f"'8 " ,_1;
Tommy Thompson rests (top right). This arche, ably owes his life to the fact he has not lo how to climb a tree (right center}. A good ti"" lfl/l' had by all in the press tent (lower right ). Bo~;,
fer shows a scene in the forest and it was c
the bottom sketch shows.

Forestry Service Offers Growers~ Landowners Valuable Dints on Cutting a~d Selling of Trees

BY WALTER DYAL
DIRECTOR OF FORESTRY
0 E of the valu able public services given by the Georgia Division of Forestr y is detailed information to timber growers on cutting and selling timber.
It is explained that the Division cannot actually crui e a forest for the owner bu t that district foresters will provide a successful method of tellin g which trees should be cut and what a fair price is. Also, assistance will be given in management and reforestation to insure future supply and incom e.
District offices ar e located in Waycross, Baxley, Alban y, Macon and Gain esville.
Timber growers are urged to keep the followi ng points in mind in cutting and selling their trees :
l. ever sell in bulk unless yo u are sure yo u are getting all yo ur trees are worth .
2. Make a thoro ugh survey or cruise of your forests ; don't guess at values.
3. Remem ber every tree is differen t and has a definite way of bringing in the most money.
4. Make a list of all possible markets and prices before selling the timber.
5. Leave half a dozen or more well scattered eed trees standing to the acre.
The Georgi a Division of Forestry looks back on a record of only 2.8 of woodland s burn ed in protected areas since January firs t - this accomplished despite the mo t severe pring drought in several years along with present adverse weather co nditi ons.
Seven teen County-Wide Protection Units and nine Timber Protection O rganizationswith a co mbin e d a r e a of 5,600,000 acr es-are now entering the active f orest fire season. These units are main taining the good r ecord made in the past few m onths.

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To aug ment available man-power the Division has 85 lookout to wers used in detecting fires. Th ese towers are conn ected with orne 1,500 miles of telephon e lin es enabling towermen to report fires to Ranger in the area, who imm ediately dispatch fire crews to the cene of the fire. To fa cilitate

the suppres ion work the Division now has over 50 fire trucks equipped 1 ith water tanks with motor driven pumps, in addition to hand pumps, flaps and other modern eq uipment used in suppression work.
In som e areas protecti on work is advanced by the u e of State and co unty short wave radio station s. In protected areas 4,500 miles of firebreak were plowed during last fire season, six plowing unit owned and operated by th e Divi sion of Forestry
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DYAL ASKS CAREFUL CUTTING OF PINES FOR CHRISTMAS

This sple ndid stand of ti mber is under the prote ction o f state forest rangers. Th e mode rn fi re fight ing equipme nt alwa ys is re ady to ge t into actio n sho uld fi re brea k out in w ooded sectors.

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2. J. Bee hives deep in th e Oke fe nokee.

Mrs. Carl Flock with her retrieve r Peppe r. Mrs . Flock exhibits the li mit in d ucks a nd

0 wild goose killed in abo ut two hours on Lake Jackson. 3. That first deer just came rig h t up for a good look info the ca me ra . 4. for mer Congressman Cast ellaw was a long way from his home in G eor9ia when he brou11ht down th is rhino. Oth er

anima ls kill ed in Africa by Judg e Ca stella w are on exhibit in th e state museu m of the Capitol . 5. Joke, beoutilul setter, be-

lo ngs to Mr . Wa llace, d o w n Fairb urn way. 6. Louie Dettlebach snapped th ese pelican s ne a r Tybee. N ice shot . 7 . Cuthb t>rl

fis herman shows wh a t tl1ey ' re catching in Phillips Pond . Photo sent in by Mr. Strick la nd. 8. Dusk! Man an d dog rest afte r a

vig orous d ay o f hunting. 9. One of q ua il's greatest enemies- thi< photo shows d fire ant bed. 10. Th is fe llow wa s stroll-

ing a long on the sands near th e O ke fenok ee and halted long e noug h for a pictu re. 11. This phe asant a t th e stat e qu a il

fa rm tak es life easy. 12. Lo ue lla Sto ne, Atlanta beaut y, and Marion Willia ms ta ke aim (lor the photogra p he r) a t d ee r o n

littl e St . Simo ns Isla nd. 13. Be a utiful ro ck bridge in Pine Mou ntain State Park . 14. Here is so me th ing no t t o monkey

a round wi th - a ho rn e t's nest . J5. If's acorn tim e. This squitre l is g ath e ri ng a w int e r's supply. J6. Lake Ja ckson is up o

little b ut here is how it lo ok ed when we had to cut off our lights recen tly . 17. Wat er is

w a y up in Okefe nok ee. Thi s a rea wa s dry during th e drouth. 18. Dr. Craig Arno ld

sn ap ped th is p ict ure of 2 larg e b a ss ca ught at Arthur Woody's la ke October

23 . Th e la rge on e ha d a 5 -pound bass inside, he is 24 inches lo ng.

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PolluteJ Qe~ 'k/aie,~u ea/lluf ~UecUe, ~~; g~ .a.w4 NeecleJ

BY CHARLES H. WHARTON
P OLL TIO is a grave problem; it is ever yone' concern. Polluted water not only kills fi sh but destroys the sport of fi shing which every Geor gian is entitled to enj oy. It is insidiously destructive in many other ways. Disease is spread , livestock sickened, often fatally, and the refreshin g bea uty of our sparklin g streams and lakes is deni ed us, when poisonous substances are allowed to be emptied into waterways.
Commissioner Cravey receives many notices from vexed citizens who want our rivers clean; men who cannot enjo y the sight of large rafts of dead and dying fi sh , evid ence of unhindered carelessness. The cause of this co ndition is not clear, but the remedy is apparent.
One report was r eceived stating that a peach-grower near Thomaston, in order to kill the worms in a poor peach crop, so they would not b e able to affect next years yield, hit upon the idea of dumping his bad fruit into a local creek. Fortunately, Mr. Barron, president of a conservation club in Thomaston, heard of the plan and nipped it in the bud. These decomposed peaches would have robbed the water of its much-needed oxygen.
The Chattahoochee River is a good example of needless and ca reless pollution. So man y co mplaints came in that an investi gation ' as held . It has been show n that most pollution trouble ca n be traced to the absence of life-giving oxygen ; oxygen is the controling fac tor in pollution. Oxygen in the water is calculated in what is kn own as "parts per milli on ;" accordin g to a bulletin of the Bureau of Fi sheries, fi sh are able to survive in water with a concentration of 5 parts per million , although a good fi sh fauna is seldom found in water with less than 8 parts per million.
During a recent low stage of the Chattahoochee, samples were taken from various sections above and below the dispo al plant at the Bolton Bridge. Thi plant handles most of Atlanta's sewerage. Above the outlet
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lake or stream thus affected can stop, or h elp stop, the offender. Every landowner should cooperate with the Wildlife Ranger in his county to stamp out this evil. Another law states that it is illegal to float sawdust in a stream. We n eed whole-hearted hacking b y the people. We must use the laws we h ave until ironclad laws are enacted. Illinois recently took a step to halt pollution forever; setting up a Sanitary Water Board, functioning without co mpensation, and with full power to deal with polluters. So, as we think about streams such as the Chattahoochee, the hundreds of small boys who swim in its dis ease-laden water- let's work towards obtainin g a forceful law, for pleasure, for health 's sake and for Georgia.

Deportment ol Natural Resources technician taking samples /rom the Chattahoochee River lor tests in state laboratory . (Photo by Earle Johnson .)
8.1 parts per million were recorded; fi ve miles below it was down to 1.9 parts. It is not yet determined how far down the river this condition exists, but it is known that 1.9 parts per million of oxygen will not support fi sh life. The Department of atural Reso urces hope with the Health Department to remedy this situation, by operating the di sposal plant more effi cien tly. Some fi sh as carp or catfish , it is understood, are able to sur vive below a concentration of 5 parts per million of oxygen, but in this condition they are und oubtedly subj ect to eli ease and low reprod uctive rates.
The laws of Georgia are far from satisfactory to cope with pollution. Our laws, as expressed b y Commissioner Cravey, have no " teeth" in them. According to a section of the exi sting law, however, pollution on a non-navigable stream constitutes trespass, and property owners who own land on

FORT MOUNTAIN
The conquered and the conqueror are gone, Their secret locked in unknown history; Yet stands the fort, a crumbling monument, Blasted and broken with antiquity.
Did moon-eyed people scale that lofty peak And wrap the stones about them like a shawl? Or did DeSoto, fleeing from his foe, Find his protection in this rocky wall?
Did British soldiers use those bottle pits? Or desperadoes build this hiding place? Still stands upon the peak the ancient wall Revealing nothing in its stony face .
-Christine Park Hankinson.
CARES TAKE FLIGHT
You may talk of other pleasures, Of the joys you used to know,
Of the happiness and pleasure In the days of long ago;
All my troubles seem to vanish And my cores hove token flight
When I toke a jaunt o-fishin ' And the trout begin to bite. -J. L. N.

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OUTDOOR GEORGIA Decem.ber 1941

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Story of Romance, Death Identifies Freak Tree Near Indian Springs
lature's ha nd, the hand that shape the beauty of the world, must have trembled when this tree, pictured here was form ed.
Trul y it is one of the oddest tree ever to spring from the good soil of Georgia. Just 50 sh ort years ago this strange tree stood near Indian Springs State Park in Henr y Co unty, and if it could talk, a fa scinatin g story would be told.
orne of the natives near Indian Springs remember this tree. They also remember that under its arch was cut a path, a pa th of romanc for many marriage vows were taken near thi s bent tree. It was the gateway of a lovers lan e.
And there are some stories of this tree that may not be so pleasa nt. It was used as a hanging post. The story goes that several men were han ged there.
ow this lovely tree is no more. Sti ll, many a story has been told of the tree that grew so strangely. What a hame, that it was allowed to fall . Tourists as well as Georgians wo uld enj oy the sight of so odd a growth.

Mystery Surrounds History
Of Large Cork Tree
Found In Georgia
Just a few miles out of Georgetown, Georgia on a rolling red clay road may be seen something rare indeed for our stat a cork tree.
Wyatt Bulloch, county agent at Georgetown , led the way to this huge and amazing tree. Amazing, yes, he cau se so far as it can be determined it is the only cork tree in the state, perhaps in the outh . Amazing, since no one seems to have a satisfactory hi stor y of the tree. Where it came from, how old it is, who planted it and uch questi on can not be an wered.
There seems to be other cork trees in Am erica but in Georgia, this tree stand s alone. Place yo ur foot on the bark of the tree, twist it and yo u will hear a squeak that onl y cork co uld produce. otice the ground and you will see small cork tree acorns.
The tree is a mag nificient specim en. It has never been worked co mmerciall y but it doe tell us that it is possible to grow cork trees in Georgia. It eems strange to whack a chunk of bark off this tree and then examine honest to goodn es cork. Just about everybody in Georgetown and Cuthbert kn ows of the tree and often takes doubting fri ends over to prove Georgia ha a cork tree. A specimen i in th e Geology Di vision at the State Capitol.

OUTDOOR GEORGIA December 1941

Of Georgia's State Parks Appeals to Holiday Visitors; Landscape Beautified by Addition of New Shrubs

By R. F. BURCH
Director of State Parks
CHRISTM!\S is co rning to the parks of Georg ia, too. The trees already are hung with festoons of gay colors, and in . the moun tains snow ma y be expected before Christmas Day to powder them with a new glitter.
Alread y this year three q uarters of a million visitors Tiave called at the parks of the Georgia Park System, and as the holiday season brings strea ms of visitors from colder climates. th ousa nds more can be expected before New Year's Da y.
There is no more enjoyable treat for the season of good wi ll than a visit to the outdoors: )The b eauty of the
scen e y at Vogel Pa1k, for example after frost has touch-

the Parks Division to plant Georgia slash pine along man y of the highways of Georgia.
The slash pine, a nati ve Georgia tree, is decidedly more appropriate than the Australi an pine used in some other states. The slash pin e grows rapidl y, so that the trees will form an impressive file along the roadside within ten yea r s. Characteri stic of the State, they are exceedingly g raceful and beautifuL In addition, th e plantings will call attention to one of the most valuable trees in America; a f1J.st growing pine that is useful for naval sto res, timber and wood pul p. The slash pine is beco ming the basis for new agricultural , forestry and indu strial development in our State.
The Parks Division has
been active during the past
year in d evelopment of road-

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side parkways, this project b eing its initial effort in beautification of the highways on a ma_jor scale. The work is done under supervision of the department's horticulturists and landscape engineers through prisoners assigned to this work.
Fourteen of the parks under the supervision of the State Parks Division of the Department of atural Resources have been improved to a po int whe re they are attracting large numbers of visitors. Work on th e oth er fiv e will begin as rapidly as fund s are available for their improvement. Careful planning of a long-ra nge park program for the State of Georgia wi ll result in recreational centers well distributed th ro ughout the State.
Christmas and its holiday season should afford many Geo1gians and man y visitors to the State an opportunity to visit the parks and see them in thei r mid-winter beauty.
And for every one of these visitors. the Parks Di vision and its employees wishes a "Merr y Christmas and Happy New Year."

ed the leaves is amazing. The exotic marvels of the Okefonokee, untouched hy winter and preserving its sam e nyste rious half-light, i s a s attractive now as in suntmer time.
The Parks Division, however, is still bu sil y at work, uninterrupted by winter. Much landscaping work is being done in the parks, setting out hundreds of native shrubs. Special attenti on is being given to selections of fl o wering shru bs, which , by next spring, wi ll make the parks even more alive with their bea uty .
For th e beginning of the new year of 194-2, a 11 ew proj ect is being undertaken. T have requested ap proval by Governor Talmadge and Comrni ssio11er Cravey to a plan of
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Vog e l Park' s tavern is a splendid ex ample of beautification . Shrubs and plants in front of th e tavern stamp it a s one of G eo rgia 1S most beautiful mountain r esorts.
OUTDOOH GEOHGI A December 1941

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Laws Limit Number of Bnffleheads, Redheads and Wood Dne ks in Bag

By BEVERLY WALLACE BURCH
I F duck hunters want to keep out of Dutch with both the Georgia Wildlife Division and the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, they've got to be more than good shots.
They've got to be up on knowing their ducks, at least to the extent of not killing more than the law allows of wood ducks, buffieheads and redheads. Migratory wildfowl regulations permit a daily limit of 10 but allow only one wood duck and a total of three redheads and buffieheads. Ignorance of the law is no excuse.
Although duck and goose season opened Nov. 2, there hasn't been a great deal of ac-
tivity or luck because of drought an d unseasonably warm weather. But experts agree the population is larger than in many years-perhaps the greatest on record- and promise hunters that cold, rough weather will bring them plenty of ducks through the balance of the season, which ends Dec. 31.
This is the first season migratory wildfowl laws have permitted the hunter to possess even one wood

duck, and all states are not allowed that much. For a long while it seemed the wood duck would become extinct, thus a closed season.
In these parts the wood duck is frequently known as the summer duck because he stays in Georgia through the summer and breeds here. A smartly marked green crest, brilliant blue, red, green and yellow tail and wing trimming and a glossy black back make this the handsomest of waterfowls and one easy to identify.
Although the red head and bufflehead are not common in Georgia they are found sometimes on the mountain lakes and down on the coast. The redhead, as one would suppose, has a red head and neck, is silver-gray above and white underneath. This is a delicious tasting duck, similar to the canvas-back which is the No . l table duck.
The bufflehead, like the redhead, gets his name because of his unusual noggin, which is exceptionally large and noticeable. A white patch beside

each eye and his black and white coloration make him easily identified. Chunky and unusually plump, he often is called the butterball or butterd uck.
With most Georgia h u n ters,
the mallard is fi rst choice, he-
cau se of h is excellent flavor,
h is fi n e size, and prin cipally
because he is to he fou nd in
fairly good numbers. A green
head gives h im his popular
n ame an d h is call is a h oist-
rous quack.
Other ducks found in Georgia include the pintail, the blue winged teal and the swift little green winged teal, the bluebill, shoevller, and black duck, and to a small extent, the canvas-back, gadwalls and some others.
Hunting hours run from sunrise to sunset. Rifles are forbidden as are shotguns larger than o. 10 gauge; or automatic and hand operated repeating gun s with more than three shells.

PINE MOUNTAIN
Five million years ago Pine Mountain lay Upon a n ocean floor, beyo nd t he rack Of wind or wave. But o nce in wild display The sleeping mo nster raised his heavy back And pushed his heavy hide in mighty folds Into the early light; then, with a groan , Sewed molten gra nite into waiting molds, And slept within this inner crust of sto ne .
Thus fro m an a geless past Pine Mo untain came, But wind and wave have wo rn t he crust away, And bu rrowed dee p into his rock-r ib bed frame . The pine trees weight his age-old back today; Five million winters crown his hoary head, And at his feet five mi ll io n years lie dead .
-Christine Park Hankinson.

OUTDOOR GEORGIA

December 1941

These wild mallards dropped in for a rest at the Lake at Pine Mounta in recently. (Photo by J . Stearns)
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PLACES TO HUNT IN GEORGIA ]

NORTHERN GEORGIA
TOW S CO TY- Hightower Ri ver-
7 mi. Hiawassee on . . 76- Sq uirrel and
quail plentiful- Fees and board reaso nable. Guides but no dogs.
Hi awassee Ri ver- S mi. Hiawassee on S. 75- Squ irrels plentiful.
(For information on above communi cate with W, E. 1'eville, Co unty Agent, Hiwas see or H. V. Eller, Wildlife Ranger, Hiwa see, Ga.)
U IO COU TY- otala River- S mi. from Blairsville on Blairsvill e-Cleveland Hi ghway- Sq uirrel, turk ey, quail and good trout fi shin g in seaso n.
(For informati on on above co ntact H. V. Eller, Wildlife Ranger, Hiwassee, Ga.)
Charlie Turner's Tourist Ca mp - Jim Rava n's Tourist Camp-Rt. 4, Cleveland, Ga. Cabins and good meal s, rates reasonabl e. ear good huntin g in Union Co unty.
CLA RKE COU TY- Write Tom Shackleford, Barnett Shoals Road, Athens, Ga. for reservati ons on the Shackleford Farm, 12 mi. so. Athens on Oconee River. Wild turkey, quail, squirrel, 'opos urn, rabbit and red fox. Rates reaso nable. Can stay in Athens. Guides but no dogs.
JACKSON & HALL COU TIES- Write Herman DeLaPerriere, Hoschton, Ga., for information on 10,000 acres open for good quail shooting. Guides but no dogs. Fees reasonabl e and good lodgin g can be ob tained in Hoschton.
MIDDLE GEORGIA
For information on quail, du ck and squirrel hunting in th e vicinity of Macon and nearby co unties write to Mr. A. E. Thornton, Distri ct Ranger, 1164 Elm St. Macon, Ga.
TWIGGS & WILKINSON COUNTIE Good quail, turkey, sq uirrel hunting, few deer. Communicate with B. B. Kennington, Wildlife Ranger, Gordon, Ga., for information. TWIGG COUNTY near Macon, Ga .
SOUTHERN GEORGIA
EMANUEL COU TY - J ohn C. Coleman Hotel, Swainsboro, Ga. 50,000 acres exclusively for guests - Plenty of quail, squirrel, raccoon, 'opossum, dove. Good fi hin g-guides and dogs. Wire or write for rates.
. BULLO CH COU TY - Rushin g Huntin g Lodge. 12 mi. east of Statesboro on banks of Ogeechee River. Cottages screened, electricity, hot and cold water, fa cilities for cookin g, good beds and janitor servi ce. Excellent squirrel, dove, quail, raccoon, some deer and turkey, guides and dogs furni shed upon req ue t. Good fishing. Write Lamar J ones, Statesboro, Ga.
BRYA CO TY- Da her' Lodge on Ogeechee R. 25 mi. we t avannah. Good fi shin g and hunting. Plenty squirrel, deer, turk ey, dove quail, raccoon, oppo sum. Dog and guides furni shed. Write Dasher's Lod ge, P embroke, Ga., for information.
Morgan's Bridge Hunting and Fishing Lod ge- 23 mi. west of Savannah. 12 mi. from Clyde, Ga., on banks of Ogeechee. Excellent huntin g and fi shin g. Deer, turkey, squirrel, duck, raccoo n, opo sum, dove and quail. Cabin , guides and dogs. Communi cate with 1organ's Lodge, Clyde, Ga.
EFFI CHAM COU TY - tee! Bridge Huntin g and Fishin g Lod ge on th e Ogee-

chee River. 4 mi. so uth of Guyton, Ga. Cabins, boa ts and guid es. Plenty quail, dove, dee r, turkey, raccoon, opossum , squir rei. Co mmuni ca te with Steel Bridge Lodge, Guyton, Ga.
CHATHAM CO 1TY- Write to Chamber of Co mm erce or De oto Hotel, Savan
nah . GLYN COU TY- Paulk's Pa ture. 40,-
000 acre . Plenty of deer, turkey, quail. Gu ides and dogs. Rate reasonable. 14 mi . from Brunswick out old Jacksonville Hi ghway. Good acco modations in Brunswick. Co mmuni ca te with ) . B. D. Paulk, Bruns wick, Ga.
Writ e toE. H. 1essick, Sea Island Huntin g Preserve, ea Island , Ga. Comfortable club house and delicious food. All types
of nati ve ga me availabl e. BRA TLEY COU TY- Write to J. B.
Stri ckl and , ahunta, for good quail and turkey huntin g on the famou s atilla River. Arrangements can be made to get a fam ous guide, Charlie Smith . Good dogs. Lodge in ahunta. All rates reasonabl e.
CAM DE COU TY- Write to J ohn Atkin son, Woodbine, Ga., for information on deer and turk ey hunting.
CHARLTO COU TY - Write to Mr. Mizell, care of Folkston Bank for information on good huntin g lands for lease, or by day.
Mr. Ward Harrison, Folkston, Ga., will be glad to furnish information on hunting in that vicinity. All kinds of game.
COFFEE, ATKINSON, WARE, JEFF DAVIS COUNTIES-Excellent quail huntin g in all of those co unties. Write to oah Burkett, Wildlife Ranger, Douglas, Georgia, for detail ed information.
JEFF DAVI Write Mr. R. M. Graham, Hazlehurst, Ga., 29,000 acres best quail land in section. Reasonable fees. o dogs.
Write Mr. C. L. Graham, Hazlehurst, 1,400 acres; good quail. No dogs.
BROOKS and COLQUITT COU TIESPerry Farms, 14 mi. southeast of Moultrie. Guides, horses and wagons, dogs, 7,000 acres. Plenty of quail and doves. Write to Schley L. P erry. Rt. 5, Moultrie, Ga.
ATKI SON COUNTY- Alapaha River Land Co. 11,000 acres protected for 7 yrs. Will lease for hunting purposes. All types game. Write to G. P. Doster, Willacoochee, Ga.
BROOKS COUNTY- Write to D. H. Hill , Quitman, Ga., 3,000 acres good quail, dove and squirrel hunting. Guides and dogs.
MITCHELL and GRADY COU TIESFor information write Grady Brock, Wildlife Ranger, Pelham, Ga.
THOMA COU TY- C. C. Collier, Ochlochn ee, Ga., 4 mi . east of Ochlochn ee. 4,00 acres. Good quail, squirrel, dove and tur key huntin g. Also 300 acres belonging to
Preston Collier adj oinin g.
Mr. Irwin Bryant, Pine P ark, Ga. 400 acres; 4 mi. Pine Park. Turkey, squirrels and deer.
Mr. A. J. Rehbert, Ochlochnee, Ga., 4 mi. east Ochlochn ee, 140 acres. Squirrel and qu ail. Good huntin g.
R. L. Gri ffin , Ochl ochnee, Ga. 1,100 acres. Good quail, squirrel, dove and turkey. 1 mi. ea t of Ocblochnee.
Mr. Bill McGarrah, Ochlochnee, Ga. 300 acre . Quail and squirrel. 6 mi. east of Ochl ochn ee.
Mr. C. C. Griffin, Ochlochnee, 1,500

acres. Quail, squirrel, dove and turkey, 5 mi. ea t of Ochl ochnee.
Mr. C. C. Griffin, Jr., Ochlochnee, 1,000 acre . Quail and squirrel.
Mr. Pat Bulloch, Ochl ocb nee, 500 acres. 1 mi . so uth Ochlochn ee. Quail, quirrel.
OTE: The above landowners in Thomas
Co unty ha ve no dogs but dogs may be
hired from Mr. J ohn Fernay and Mr. Geo. Reaga n, Ochl ochnee.
Good hotels in Thomasville, To co, Mit. chell and Ru ssell House. ear hunting lands. Boa rd with Tom Asbell, Ochlochnee. Log Cabin Camp 2 mi. ' o. Thomasville Rt. 19, ve ry reaso nable. Cabin s ma y be ob: tained near good htmtin g from W. J. Jack. so n, Ochl ochnee, Ga.
EMI OLE CO TY- Charlie Sealey's Place. 25 mi. outh Donalsonville off U.S. S4, good mea n and beds. Plenty deer turkey, quail. Dogs and guides furni shed: Ca n accommodate up to 12 in party. Write
J. R. Sealey, Sealey's pring, Alabama.
Gree n Top Ca bin - Rt. S4, good beds and meal s, near well stocked farm s where quail privileges can be obtained very reasonabl e. Guides and dogs. Write J. D. Rabon, Donal sonville, Ga.
DECAT UR COU TY - Spring Creek Fishing Camp. 12 mi. south Bainbridge. Excellent Duck shoo ting, boats and guides. good cabins and meals. Write 0. 0 . Morri s, Brinson, Ga.
SEMINOLE COU TY- Shingler's Camp S mi. so uth Iron City, off U. S. 84 on Lake Deca tur. Boats and guides, cabins, meals, good duck shooting, al so doves. Write M. E. Shingler, Iron City, Ga.
LOW DES COU TY - Privileges for excellent hunting may be obtained on the following lands:
J. A. Mcintyre, RFD, Ousley, Ga. 1,750 acres. 10 mi. SW of Valdosta
J. E. Mathis, Valdosta, 6,000 acres. 12 mi. south of Fargo (CLI CH CO.)
CLINCH COUNTY H. M. Peagler, Homerville, 15,000 acres.
12 mi. from Homerville, Ga. Bob Lee, Dupont, Ga., 6,000 acres. 1-4
mi. from Dupont Mrs. E. . Cox, Dupont, Ga., 5,000 acres. 1
-4 mi. from Dupont Alec Sessoms, Cogdell, Ga., 50,000 acres.
3-20 mi. Cogdell, Ga. Mrs. Paul Land, Cogdell, Ga., 22,000 acres.
3-15 miles from Cogdell Chas. or W. B. Gilligan, Homerville, Ga.,
2- 15 mi. from Homerville J . J . Langdal e, Co un cil, Ga., 30 mi. from
Homervill e B. Douglas, Homerville, 1- 25 mi. from
Hom ervill e A. L. Barnhill, Homerville, 10- 30 mi. from
Hom erville. OTE: The above land s provide excel
lent qu ail, deer, turkey and squirrel hunt in g. Rate reasonable.
Information ca n also be obtained from the Chamber of Commerce, Valdosta.
CLAY COU TY - Anth ony Wallace, colored, 7 mi. north Ft. Gaines, Ga. 3,000 acres qu ail huntin g. o dogs but dogs boa rded, guides. Hunters can stay at Peter so n or McA llister Hotels, Ft. Gaines, Ga. Write Anthony Wall ace, Rt. 2, Ft. Gaines, Ga .
TELFAIR COU TY- Write R. A. Cra vey, Mila n for information on 1SOO ~cres good quail land. 2-4 mi. from M~lan, Lod gin g in Mil an. Can ge t dog and gmdes.

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OUTDOOR GEORGIA December 1941

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That rugged ge ntl eman from Brunswick, Charlie DeLoach, who shaves in cold salt water and catches sharks with his bare hands, pops up
with this one: "Mose, you lazy rascal, do you
think it is right to leave your wife working over the washtub while you waste yo ur time fishing? "
"Oh, yassuh, mah wife dont need no waching, she'll wuk jest as hard
as if'n I wuz dere! ".
O.K. Charl-ie.- - - -
WILD? YES SIR!
Tom Wade, of Columbus called up the day before Thanksgiving and in vited this writer down for a wild turkey dinner. " Tom," I asked, "Are you sure those turkeys are wild?"
"You bet," Tom answered, "show any of them an ax and they'll be
wild." So - next Thanksgiving, just re
member, you are having wild turkey.

A bit of this and that- HENRY FORD was told one day that the deer on his property at Richmond Hill, Georgia, were eating up all his beds of Lettuce. MR. FORD advised , "Well, in that case, grow more lettuce -some for the deer and some for us." Darn good idea! . . .
SENATOR EDGE'S plantation at Thomasville started off a few years
ago with six turkeys and today you can see as many as 90 wild turkeys get up in one place. Just shows what protection of wildlife will do.- CON-
_IE WATTS, the Baldwin, Georgia
bud man is doing a swell job. He
knows some swell stories about birds MACK ROZIER, of marsh hen fame and noted high diver from low plat forms, recently purchased a new air plane-Yo u wouldn 't think CHAR
LIE DELOACH is the romantic type
-h_They say the flicker is known in t ts country by about 120 other n~mes such as yellow hammer, clape, htgh-hole, wick-up, yawker bird, yar
bp and heigh-ho in case you didn't ow.

h~aTdOerMs

oWf AthDisEcwolausmdne,lio~-rhitteed

to have him for

I ts yard tick. He said he received one

etter from England and the fellow asked hI'rn to contact his brother and

arrange for him to receive an Amer ican Beagle hound - nothing else would do- and he wanted to name this dog- Yardstick. We didn't know OUTDOOR GEORGIA had such a wide range. When JESSE WILLIAMS caught his first fish, his excitement
reached a new high. He yelled across
the lake to his friend TOM SLIDER and asked "What should I do with it?" (holding up a 5 pound bass) . Annoyed TOM answered, "Aw, just throw it back in." And ker-plunk, back in it went. Ouch! JACK TROY, able Atlanta sports writer, once spent two da ys at a deer stand and a few minutes after he gave up, a large buck walked by his stand. Deer, deer! EARLE JOHNSON, Atlanta photographer, says the trouble with hunting is-he doesn't know whether to shoot with his gun or camera and while he is making up his mind his subject gets away-]. A. FETZ and GEORGE LEYHE of Atlanta, are itching to do some fishing down on Dead Lakes in Florida.-LEM GRIFFIS, the Okefenokee Swamp man, says he is going to have to quite raising watermelons because the vines grow so fast they wear out the water melons dragging them around.-ED DANFORTH, Journal columnist, will pause almost any time for a plate of marsh hens. . .
GEORGIA'S BIRDS
The springtime finds in Georgia The rain crow, (yellow bill), The humming bird, the night hawk, The noisy whipporwill, The phoebe, and the kingbird, The cardinal, and wren To sing the Georgia chorus, And sound the state's "Amen/'
The summer brings the wood thrush, The yellow breasted chat, The tanager, and titmouse. But even mare than that The summer pierces heaven With silver spear-tipped words Of Georgia's own thrasher, And Georgia's mockingbirds.
The autumn calls the tourists From cooler atmospheres. Their coming has been constant Throughout unnumbered years. The plaintive vesper sparrows Are winter messengers. Oh, Georgia smiles a welcome On many visitors.
-Christine Park Hankinson.

It Is Unlawful!

To hunt any game bird on or over

baited area.

To use live decoys or to drive, rally or chase water fowl with airplane, power boat, sail boat or other fl oat

ing devices.

To take migratory game birds from or by aid of an automobile, airplane,

sinkbox, battery, power boat, sail

boat, any boat under sail, any float

ing craft or device of any kind towed

by power boat or sail boat.

To shoot waterfowl before sunrise

or after 4 p. m. and doves before sun-

rise and after sunset.

To use shotgun larger than 10 gauge or an automatic or hand-op erated repeating shotgun capable of holding more than three shells, the magazine of which has not been cut off or plugged with one piece of met al or wooden filler incapable of re-

moval through the loading end there-

of, on migratory birds.

To hunt or kill: Gn.>use;.{except on regulated hunts) or native Pheasants.

To hunt or kill Woodcock.

To trap-,.molest..orkili-Reav,er.

To hunt on any game refuge ex-

cept on supervised hunts.

To waste game wantonly or to ship

game.

To sell plumage of game or s~mg

birds without permit.



To shoot from public highway or

railroad right of way. To hunt on lands without permis-
sion of owner or tenant. To sell or offer for sale, barter or
exchange any of the game animals or game birds, or parts thereof, of the

State of Georgia. To take any game bird or animal

for holding in captivity except by

permit. To rob any bird's nest except such

birds as are not protected by law, or

to kill any non-game bird except Buz-

zard, Crow, Hawk, Owl, Field Lark

and English Sparrow.

To trap, net or ensnare game ani-

mals and game birds, except fur

bearing animals.

To poison game or non-game birds.

To resist Wild Life Rangers or

other officers charged with enforce-

ment of the game and fish laws.

To use a light of any kind in hunt-

ing game animals and birds. To fail to report to the Division of
Wild Life all Turkey or Deer killed in Georgia.

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Fires Spring Up
Throughout State,
Hunters Warned!
W ITH the hunting season in full swing, there seems to be an unusual number of fires over the state. The Department of atural Resources has received telephone calls, telegraph messages, and letters, telling of fires raging throughout Georgia. It is safe to say that many of these destructive outbreaks are probably caused by careless hunters, who leave their campfires unextinguished or throw down their lighted cigarettes and matches without stopping to think of the damage that will result.
Because of the drought these fires take on a serious aspect. Few realize just what damage fires do; some don't bother to put out a fla me un less their own property is endangered. Fires destro y the seeds, grasses, and fruits upon which our game birds and animals subsist. Fires devour the cover for game birds thus exposing them to their enemies.
Fires remove the valuable leafmold from the forest fl oor, mold that retains vital moisture, mold that protects the dust-like soil from the effects of wind and water erosion. Fires not only kill all young trees but impede the growth of the larger trees. Examine a cross section of a pine that has been subjected to frequent fires; you will notice how close together the growth-rings are in the period of fires. Fires allow valuable topsoil to be washed into streams, killing fi sh and vegetation alike.
Considering these fi re damages, it is not difficult to realize that fire is second to no factor as a ruthless, terrible, destroying force.
The Department of Natural Resources urges that all sportsmen be exceedingly careful as to how and where they dispose of cigarettes, cigars, and matches. Campfires should be drenched with water or smothered with sand. Help Georgia save its natural resources. The increase of game will justify all efforts.
NO SPORT, TOO TAME
The wild mallard breeds freely and abundantly in captivi ty, but, unfortunately, the duck also domesticates rapidly and loses those qualities desired for sporting birds.
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Mineral Sales
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courage those who deserve it and disco urage fraud s.
The ground-work has alread y been done for a number of new industrial mineral d eve lopm e nts. We are pleased that the backers of such new industries ask our advice and suggestions. The following are examples of such new industrial developments:
(1) Establishment of two or more rock wool plants in Georgia ;
(2 ) Esta blishment of a glass
plant ; (3 ) Manufacture of magnesium
sulfate from serpentine; (4 ) Smelting iron ore; (5) Manganese ore benefi ciating (6 ) Manufacture of haydite, a
new light- weight aggregate for con-
cr ete. Many farmers and land owners in
Georgia are known to have on their property worthwhile deposits of minerals, the majority of which are salable at this time. In most cases such deposits consist of numerous small veins- usually too small to interest large commercial producers but of sufficient magnitude to justify an operation conducted by one, two or three men. It would be possible for a family not engaged in tilling the crops to take out small tonnages of manganese, iron, mica, asbestos, as well as other minerals which in turn co uld be sold to larger producers at prices which would insure a farmer more than he would be able to obtain by working as a day laborer at Public Works.
In the case of gold, it is believed that in at least 40 counties in north Georgia there are numerous gold veins too small to justify regular milling operation but large enough for limited tonnages to be taken from a mill at a profit. The difficulty at present is in not having available a customs mill to which this type of ore could be carried for treatment. If a number of small treatment plants could be established at strategic points and operated in a manner somewhat similar to the old-time corn mills, it would be possible for the average farmer in these areas to obtain, through mining gold ore, from $200 to $300 supplemental cash income per year.
This Division of the Department of Natural Resources could show these

The HAIL~ BO~
November 5, 1941 Augusta, Ga.
Outdoo r Georgia 422 State Capitol Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Editor:
Enclosed find 75c for one year's subscription to your splendid magazine, " Outdoor Georgia."
On several occasions I purchased your magazine at news stands and I like it ver y much.
Yours sincerely, ]. R. Pollard, 413 Second Street, Augusta, Ga.
TIMBER!
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- thi s service made available to local landowners on a cost basis.
Employment of trained personnel together with modern fire fighting equipment has enabled the fire protection organizations to reduce the number of fires and damage when fires occur.
Operations by the Division of Forestry for 1941 may be considered highly successful. Landowners and timber growers have been generous in praise of work done by the division. The state forestry service is anxious to continue its good work and will strive diligently through 1942 to keep fire losses at a new low. Extensive forestry planting will receive maximum consideration for the com ing year.
In the cutting of Christmas trees, the Department asks that careful selection is made before cutting. Excess cutting and discards promote waste. It takes several years for a pine to reach the Christmas tree age - don 't destroy your future timber uselessly.
farmers and land owners how and where to mine and could supervise the operation of the aforementioned milling plants, and thus create new wealth as well as additional sources of cash income for farmers.
The Division of Mines wishes all
a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

OUTDOOR GEORGIA December 1941

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With thi s list of fishing holes in the state, Outdoor Georgia completes its schedul e of locating the big ones. All counti es reported by state rangers have been li sted . It would be interesting to have some comments from the readers on this listing. We hope it has served a purpose but only our readers can answer this. Drop a card to Outdoor Georgia. We would like to know how man y clipped or saved the entire list.

TOOMBS COUNTY
BAILEY LAKES- On Altamaha River; Bass, Whit e Perch, Bream; Live Bait Casting, Mead ow Worms, Crickets; Free.
GREE S LAKE- On Altamaha Ri ver; ame fi sh and bait as above; Boa ts " usuaLly availabl e"; Fishing Free.
COBBS CREEK- Southern part of County ; Red Bellies, Bass; Meadow Worms, Lures; Free.
PE DLETO CREEK- East of Lyons; ame as above.
OHOOPEE RIVER- East of Lyons; Bream, Red Bellie ; Meadow Worms; Free.
ALTAMAHA RIVER- South of Lyons; White Perch, Bream, Red Bellies, Cat, "In late Summer wh en River is Clear"; Worms, Crawfi h, Live Bait, Yellow Jackets; Free.

TUEUTLEN COUNTY
OHOOPEE RIVER- ortheast of Soperton_; Perch, Bass, Jack, Cat, Carp ; Live Ba1t, Worm , Casting from Bank ; Free.
OCO EE RIVER- Western part of Count y; Cat, Carp; Worms, Cut Bait; Free.

TROUP COUNTY

WEDHAKERLaqrange; Bass,

Gla ss Brea

Brid e m, c';t;

RoLaidv~

from and

Artificial Bait, Worms; Free.

~ YELLOW JACKET CREEK-Cameron

rlB!rrieeleal.mR, oa"dL,otfro"m

LaGrange " Cat; Wor..;.s,

Few" Cut

Bass Bait:
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p ~HATTAHOOCHEE RIVER- At West

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, Bass' Cats;

Bream_, "F ew" Live and Arti-

a a1t, Worms, Cut Bait; Free.

WALKEU COUNTY
CITY LAKE- One mile So uth of LaFayett e; Bream, Crappie, Bass; Worms, Lures, Minnows; 50 cents a da y.
COVE CREEK- Seven miles West of LaFayette; Bass, Cat; Minnows, Lures; Free.
BIG CREEK- Two mil es orth of Subli gna ; Ba s, Trout , Ca t ; 1innows, Lures; Free.
LAKE tJLOW PIPE- One mile So uth of St. Elmo; Bass, Bream, Crappie; Worm s, Lures, Minnows; Free.
DICKS CREEK- Thirteen mil es East of LaFayette, Five mil es South of Villanow; Trout ; Flies ; Free.
CHANDLERS LAKE- Five miles So uth of LaFayette; Bass, Bream; Lures, Worms; 50 ce nt s a day.
WARREN COUNTY
ROCKY COMFORT CREEK - Two miles West of Warrenton ; Bream (Ear thworms) ; Black Bass (Artificial Bait) ; Free.
OGEECHEE RIVER- Divides Warren and Glascock Counties; Bas , Brea m ; Same Bait as above; Free.
ANDERSON POND- South of Warrenton ; Bass, Brea m ; Same Bait as above; Private.
BRIER CREEK- East of Warrenton ; Bream; Earthworms; Free.
WASHINGTON COUNTY
HAMBURG PO D- Nine miles ortheast of Warthen; Bream, Bass, Cat, Jack, Sucker, Perch ; Artificial Minnows, Yard Worms, Cut Bait; $50 a yea r.
LITTLE OGEECHEE RIVER - Nine miles East of Warthen ; Bass, P erch, Jack, Cat; Same bait as above; 1 a day.
JARDON'S POND- Eight mil es East of Sandersville; Bass, Bream, Jack, Cat; Same Bait as above; 1 a day.
OGEECHEE RIVER - Twelve mil es North east of Warthen; Bass, Bream, Jack, Cat; Same bait as above; Free.
BUFFALO CREEK-Three mil es Southeast of Deepstep; Bream, Bass, Cat, Sucker, P erch; Same bait as above ; Free.
OHOOPEE RIVER- Two miles East of Harriso n; Bass, Sucker, Jack, Cat, Perch; Same Bait as above ; Free.

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December 1941

WILKINSON COUNTY
OCO EE RIVER - Six mi les East of Toomsboro; Bass, Perch, Cat; Artifi cial Bait, Cut Bait, Yard Worms; Free.
SA DY CREEK- Six mil es So uth of Irwint on; P erch , Jack, Cat; Worms, Cut Bait; Free.
BALDI PO D- Twelve mil es So uth of Irwint on ; Bass, Bream, Perch; Same Bait a above ; Free.
PORTER CREEK- Three mil es So uth of Jrwinton ; Perch, Cat; Same Bait as above; Free.
BLA CK CREEK- Three mil es North of Gordon; Perch, Ca t ; Same Bait as above; Free.

WAYNE COUNTY
GOOSE CREEK- Six mil es West of J es up ; Bass, Cra ppie, Bream, Cat; Plugs, Minnows, Live Bait, Worms; Free.
PENN HOLLOWA Y CREEK, OLD RI VER A D LAKES- Six mil e East of J es up; Same as above.

WHITE COUNTY

CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVER

ea r

Helen ; Rainbow and Brook Trout; Flies,

Worm s, Water Crickets; State Permit, $1

a day.

WORTH COUNTY
CRISP COUNTY POWER DAM- Warwick ; Black Bass, Brea m ; Worms, River Runt Castin g; Shelter, Camp Grounds, Boats, Flowing Well; Fishin g Free.
SMOKE BRIDGE- Warwi ck; Same Fish and Bait as above; Store, Camp Grounds, Boa ts, Flowing Well ; Fishing Free.

ANSWE R S
CONSERVATION PLEASE!

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This unusual photograph shows a Black Bear cub climbing a tree in a U. S. Wildlife Refuge. As long as he stays in the refuge he will be safe fram harm. Cubs are taught to climb trees at the first sign of danger. (U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service Photo.)
Visitors in Georgia must not miss the beauty of the scenery along the mountain trails leading to Fort Mountain State Park near Chatsworth. Here is one ef the many roads cut in the side a Georgia mountin. From the observation tower on fort Mountain one may look into several states. The historical background of this state park has aHracted many visitors.

!fn CCkis !Issue

Page

Georgia Digs in for Defense .

2

Commissioner lack Cravey

Georgia Wildlife Reaches New High

3

Ed Wall

Jackpot of Gold
Joe Stearns

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Thoughtful Landscaping Conserves

Splendor of State Parks . . .

6

Tom Fleming

Wildlife Refuges Valuable Asset .

7

Jake Finch

"Only God Can Make a Tree"-State

Nurseries Lend a Helping Hand

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"Seeing Georgia" in Pictures .
Joe Stearns

10-11

The Land of the Cherokees . . . . . . 12
Ernest Neal

Conservation Please .
(Answers on Page 15)

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Cherokees Mined First Georgia Marble . 13
Joe Stearns

You Tell 'Em! . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Joe Stearns

Expert Tells Secret Methods in Training Your Bird Dogs . . . . . . . 16-17
Beverly Wallace 8 urch

Trapping Offers Adventure and

Excitement .

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Charles H. Whorton

Found in Georgia
Joe Stearns

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QeiJII,r;;a ~'94 !JH
FOR DEFENSE!
G EORGIA is on the alert. Since Pearl Harbor, Georgians have lost little time getting their efforts into action for State and National defense.
Our glorious state will supply its quota of manpower for the Army and the Navy. Our people will conserve materials and accept restriction orders for the Government intelligently.
Our farmers will lose no time in striving for larger and beHer crops. More hours must be spent in the fields and those magic words "America is at war" will supply the necessary energy and spirit for our people to put forth extra time and effort.
Our forest rangers and landowners already have buckled down to vigilant guard of Georgia woodlands. Trees are important to National Defense and ravages by forest fires could defeat our purpose. Raging fires are the first enemy of the forest. A close watch and the cooperation of hunters, campers and hikers will reduce our forest fires to a minimum during this critical war-time emergency.
The wheels of our mining industry already hove been given a vigorous turn and presently will be whirling at top speed . Georgia is rich in mineral deposits. Materials so vitally needed to build sturdy airplanes and guns to send our messages to Japan, ore pouring forth and will increase steadily. Even now drills are being forced into the earth at Albany in search of oil, and geologists are extremely optimistic. Oil in Georgia will open up new avenues for industry. It is even possible that Georgia gasoline may be used in bombers in the near future and we would be proud to know the power that sent those planes into the enemy strongholds came from Georgia earth. Many large American tanks made of Georgia minerals are now rolling off the assembly lines ready for action.
Our state parks provide recreation for those men who are engaged in processing the materials so vitally necessary for an American victory. Our fields and forest and streams provide hunting and fishing for our defense workers during their periods of relaxation. Georgia's grand opportunity is at hand and no Georgia man nor woman will shirk a single duty or assignment, I am certain.
We know we have a fight oil hand and will answer the call with our sleeves rolled up. Our work will be well done. Georgia is worth fighting for, and the American spirit lives in this red clay state, in the hearts of all, from the man behind the plow to those men operating the machines turning out shells. There is no power on earth strong enough to steer Gorgia people from their war efforts anllf the ultimate taste of the sweet fruits of victory.
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JANUARY, 1942

0U1'!D>OO!Ri G!EO!RiGITA

Volume X, No. VII

JOE l. STEARNS, Managing Editor

ZACK D. CRAVEY, Editor

BEVERLY WALLACE BURCH, feature Editor

Published monthly by The Georgia Department of Natural Resources, 422 State Capitol, Atlanta, Ga., in the interest of Georgia wildlife and for fishermen, hunters, nature lovers and conservath~n of natural resourees . Yearly subscriptions to United States and its possessions, and Canada, 75 cents; other countries, $1.50. Subscribers must notify us of change of address four weeks in advance of next publication date, giving both old and new address. Contents of this magazine must not be reprinted without permission. This magazine is g lad to receive photos, drawings, stories and articles dealing with outdoor subjects, but cannot guarantee return of unsolicited contributions nor insure againat their Joss. Contributions n ot accompanied by s ufficient postage will not be returned. Entered a s 2nd class matter August 31,
1940. at the post office at Atlanta, under the Act of March 3, 1879.

g~ ell~ StUU(U N~ /Jd,

GEORGIA WILDLIFE REACHES NEW HIGH

By ED WALL
SUPERVISOR OF RANGERS
GEORGIA 'S hunting season is past the mid-season mark. With sundown January 5th, deer hunters will call it a season and place their old faithful g un s back in the case un til an other ovember rolls around.
The bark of the guns will still be heard over the state as there are hundreds of hun ters who get their thrills from the Bob White, which lures hooter into the fields until March l. O'possum an d Raccoon also attract hunters with dogs and the season closes Februa r y 28th.
Wild turkey will he sought until March l, and on Janu-

did results. On the field of action, Georgia hunters enjoyed a "safety" season. On only a few occasions did we have injuries as a result of accidents in the field.
Those robust men wh o have in vaded the woods this sea on have re ported plenty of game. The quail stock ran high this year and many deer were shot. Wild turkeys, report ed vanishing, astounded hunters by their numbers. Man y a wild turkey dinner has been the result.
Numbers of sportsmen have written to the Division of Wildlife, praising the accomplishments of our consetvation

Bo.IJ. 'klluie StiAd- eJ/un/elz~ ~o. 4cii.oH.;

<J~~appe!U I:J~~e BuUf I

ary ll the dove season comes to an end. The season was shorter this year than in previous years.
The lid on ducks and geese clamped down on December 31st. And a good sea on it was, according to reports that came in to the Division of Wildlife.
There will be no bars thrown up on chasing the r abbit and fox. The eason ju t doesn 't close on them.
The trappers now are hard at work. Careful trapping affords an additional income for the farm. Georgia f ur are valuable and many of them find their way into market. Hundred of beautiful fur coats are made up of fur trapped in our state.

program. The results of this work are discernable in all sections of the state. Commissioner Zack D. Cravey is well pleased with reports from rangers and hunters and is looking forward to even hap-

pier hunting grounds for the next season.
The Division of Wildlife Ranger have been forced to clamp down on violators. nfortunately we have a number of hunters wh o do not live by the rules and pla y the game fairl y. These offenders have been hailed in to court and paid stiff fin es in many cases. The cooperation of the judges and solicitors with the Division has been of great importance in this phase of the Rangers' work.
It is encouraging to kno w that th ousands of hunters are cooperating with the Rangers in their work. On man y occasions hunter and farm ers have exercised their right as citizens to r eport violations. Commis sioner Cravey is profoundly grateful to each of these men. All good sportsmen ha ve a feeling of contempt for those who ignore the gam e laws. Our Ranger have won many friends to the cau se of con er vation through their co urtesy and a desire to sweep the "game hogs" off the huntin g fields. The Divi ion of Wildlife welcomes at all time suggestions and constructi ve criticism. Information on violations will be treated in trict confidence.

The Division of Wildlife is proud of Georgia hunters. This has been a year of splen-

Some like ' em with yams. Trappers like ' em for their pelts, but right now Mama ' Possum would like to take core of her family of little ones. And to think- they'll all grow up and be as pretty as mama some day . (U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service Picture.)

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AWAITS DIS~OVERY IN GEORGI

By JOE STEARNS
J T i not outside the realm of possibility that some day Georgia i
going to be host to a gold rush that will make the California affair look like a family re-union, according to Captain Ga rland Peyton, State Director of Mines, and ma nv Georgia mi ners.
The Captain , who kn ow whereof he peaks, i confident thi tate has exceptionall y wealthy deposit of gold. He i convinced that nature ha been teasi ng Georgia miner , occa ionally giving up a nugget here and there and placer gold in various spots but one of the e days some lucky man or men will hit a gold jackpot.
In and around Cleveland, Georgia the natives are gold conscious. Children are taught to keep their eyes open for gold. They are given instructions on how to detect it and where it is most likely to he found. So, the boys and girls in this mountain range play their games with half an eye alert for the precious yellow metal.
Road con tractors dug out a stream bed at Coosa Creek in Union County and crushed the stones produced to make gravel for surfacing a road from Blairsville to Neel's Gap. It developed that the gravel was auriferous gravel- meaning it contained

go ld. So it is well to presume that the road is paved with gold.
Duke's Creek gave up gravel for the paving of the Cleveland- acoochee road and gold definitely had been found at thi s ite. In fact if yo u had only a m ild interest in lo-
Gold panning near Cle veland, Georgia . If fate is ki nd, this kind of work pays worth-
while dividends .
eating gold, you could get down to Duke's Creek in White Co unty, take a metal mallet and if yo u popped open enough rocks, you would cer tainly find gold. It might be just a little gold but it definitely would be gold. The first gold found in Georgia was panned at this site.

It seems that Georgia's big. gest gold trouble lies in the great cost of mining combined with the fact that miners do not get down deep enough. Georgia gold seekers will get down about 400 feet while in California they have been known to mine gold as deep as 4,000 feet.
ralure is selfi h with its precious metals and gem . Only in a few cases did nature place the e things on the surface for discovery by man . Na. lure intended that man should work, \\ork and work ome more before she would yield worldly treasures.
The mineral museum on the fourth flo or of the State Capitol contains many specimens of nuggets and aurifero us quartz.
Some sceptics will scoff at
the thoughts of Georgia pro-
ducing anything worth while
in the gold field hut statistics
show that the entire pro-
duction of gold in Georgia
from the early discoveries to
1907 amounted to $17,500. 00 and that would buy a lot of football tickets, pop corn, hot dogs and bubble gum.
Captain Peyton recalls an instance where in one panning $1500 worth of gold was found. Living witness will back up this statement. Wonder how many of us have trampled on gold while walking here and there in Georgia?

Georgia Earth Bolds Vast Gold Deposits, Wealthy Jackpot Awaits Lueky Miner!

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OUTDOOR GEORGIA January 1942

Of ~OLD

' GEOLOGISTS BELIEVE

1 - Captain Garland Peyton smashes a large piece of gravel in a pit near Cleveland . 2 -And here Captain looks over the result of a panning operation . 3 - This is known in th e gold mining industry as the
Flum e of a washing plant . 4 -
Gravel from the pits near Cleve /and are know n fo contain gold and are used to surface roads such as this one from Cleveland to Nacoochee. It is reasonable then

to believe that this rood is a " gold road .11 5 - This paved highway leading info Blairsville from Cleveland contains gold bearing gravel. 6 - E. E. Russell, Representative from
Wh ite County, owns this restaurant at Cleve land and its name was suggested by gold miners. Representa tive Russell says this is the best paying gold mine in operation in that section, of the present time. (All pictures by Jo e Stearns .)

BEST PRICE TIMBER
. alive American black walnut yields the h ghest pri ced timber in th e United States. Black walnut logs brou ght an avera ge price of 86.21 per thousand board fee t for all ~tate , although one purchase at a price 111 exce s of 200 was reported in the an nual summary by the Forest Service.

MINNIE-A MOOCHER?
For thirteen years Minnie, a black bear, had lived in a cage at wannanoa, . C. As a reward Minni e wa sent 30 mil es away to the Pisgah ational Forest a nd turn ed loose in the woods.
Three months la ter Minnie showed up at wan nanoa, footsore, gaunt, and hun gry. She wanted back in her cage.

OUTDOOR GEORGIA } rmrwry 1942

WATERFOWL INCREASING
Waterfowl a re lowly but continuall y increasin g, demonstrating th e oundness of lhe waterfowl-re toration program . The waterfow l popu lalion, es tima ted at about 65,000,000 in January 1940, has increased lo about 70,000,000 according to th e 1941 inventory.

Tourist stop on the mountain road in Vogel Park to view the beautiful lake below. Vogel is a splendid example of the planniHI landscaping in state parks.

By TOM FLEMING
STATE PARKS LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
I T has rightfully been said " that in an y a rea where the preservati on of the beauty of nature is a primary purpose, every modification of the natual landscape, whether it be by construction of a road or erection of a shelter, is an intrusion. "
This is indeed true with reference to state park work, for only one thiRg can equal in importance the naturalness that makes our parks beauty spots. That is the provision of adequate recreational facilities to serve the countless sco res of visitors who are now making the state parks their favorite vacation retreats.
Georgia's State Park System was planned and plans are ever in the making for future expansion. A glance at existing areas on a map will show that
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definite thought was doubtless given in selecting and acquir ing areas in nearly all sections of the state. Nineteen at pres ent are administered by the Division of State Parks, and of these nineteen, work has ac tually been started and progress made toward the ultimate completion of fourteen areas.
Before actual work was started on any of these areas, it was necessary to prepare a set of plans kn own as "The Master Plan" for each individual area where a work program was contemplated. This Master Plan shows in detail the ultimate proposal for the development of an entire a rea. Topographical surveys were necessarily made before any intelligent planning co uld be started. Then, the plan was broken down into various areas such as service areas, recreational areas,

day-use areas, picnic areas, over night and vacation cabin areas and the like. Road and trail systems were laid out. Water, sewerage and vari ous utility lines were necessary to complete a useable area. All these features and many more had to be considered and were thus included in the original plan for development.
Upon completion of the Master Plan and its final approval by the Director of the Division of State Parks, and usually the concurrence of the National Park Service represents tives, work could be started on the development of an area.
This apparently does not concern the landscaping of State Parks, but it shows what must come before the final beautification work begins. Each area is ultimately devel
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OUTDOOR GEORGIA January 194Z

WILDLIFE REFUGES V!LUABtE ASSETS
IN DEVELOPMENT<oF .GA.ME IN GEORGIA

By JAKE FINCH

WILDLIFE refuge in Georgia are among our state' most valuable

assets for game propagation and de-

velopment. These refu ges serve as

11 1 breeding gro_und and ~tro nAgh o!d
where Georg1a gam e w1 "ouns 1

oarv1edrftlhorwiv

e for years will repopu

to come Iate surr

and the oun d"mg

territories .

The Georgia Divi ion of Wildlife

and the U. S. Forest ervice cooperate in handlin g th e Chattahoochee lational Forest in 1orth Georgia and it is beco ming a portsman paradi e. The U. . Fi h and Wildlife ervice
al 0 cooperates by furnishing trout for restocking. The mountain streams rollin O' their parkling water along in plendor have provided thousands of fi hin O' hours and plea ure to hun-
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dred of Geo rgian s in the past few year . Th e e stream are protected, tocked and th eir waters kept clean and pure. U nlimited pos ibilities for mountain trout fi shin g i th e result.

Commissioner Cravey vis ualized the possibilities of this section a number of years ago and signed a cooperative

agreement with the U. S. For est Service for the administra lion of this area.
Grouse, deer, wild boar and quail find a haven inthi secti on. State and Federal rangers jealou ly protect the wildlife. The regulated deer hunt in lovember was eminentl y satisfactor y to the archers and hunter who participated under this excellent protection program , wildlife of this area will continue to multiply and offer first cia hunting for future years.
The Piedmont wildlife refu ge near Round Oak is ucce sfull y gettin g a foothold in promotin g wi ldlife in Georgia under the skillful handling of the U. S. Fi h and Wildlife ervice. A regulated quail hunt was co ndu cted this month and hunters located man y coveys of quail. The hunt wa o popular that tentative plan are being mad e to have another next year.
The Pi edmont refuge is alrea d v well suppli ed with cover crop and food for quail. P lan s are prepared to stock th e area with deer and wild turkey. In a few year the result of this work will be a happy huntin g ground for Georgian s in managed hunts.

Re fuges provide a have n for quail like this one . Left clone, this quail will bring up a large family each year. (U. S . Fish & Wildlife Service Photo .)
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This 'Possum might be in training for acrobatics. On protected refuges 'Possums increase
annually. (U. S . Fish & Wildlife Photo .)
Several years ago the Okefenokee Swamp was rapidly being stripped of its wildlife. The U. S. Fish & W ildlife Service purchased this land and established a refuge which saved the game in the great ;swamp. It is no trouble now to see bears, quail, wild turkeys, ducks, deer and many other types of wildlife roving the swamp lands. Records show an annual increase.
Th e Okefenokee wamp admittedly is one of th e fin est fi hing sites in Geo rgia . Properl y handl ed for the pa t few years, it till is a fisherman 's dream. o admission without a permit, a rigidly enforced limit to the catch , and watchful eyes have kept the swamp waters id eal for plendid game fi sh.
The State Divi sion of Wildlife cooperate in ever y way po ible in the development of these Federal Refuges and their service to the public. Commissioner Cravey feels that these refuges serve as insurance against th e decimation of our game populati on.
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H. D. Story, Jr ., of the State Division of Forestry, beside a stand of pines planted about 10 years ago near Albany. Protected from fire , pines require little attention and will begin working for the landowner after about 10
or 12 years.
(3 ) Although pines do not require any work to speak of after they ha ve reached a ye ar or more of age, they do need constant care fo keep weed s from choking the m oul during the early seedling stage. A group o f N egro women are constantly on the ale rt to rout this enemy.
(4 ) Rain is better than irrig ation for the young seedlings but when droughts come, the He rty sprinkler cuts lo ose . Tender pines won't do much growing in hot weath er unless th ey g e t plenty of moisture so when it doesn't rain th ere' s an artificial April showe r at the nursery.
(5 ) Seedlings, like other crops, must be cultivated and fertilized . The cultivator spans a row in th e bed which contains approximately 40,000 seedlings. Be cause they are planted so close together they extract muclt fertility from the soil so only half the nursery acreage is set out in seedlings each year and on th e off-year is planted in a cover crop.

Sown in February, pine seedling s look like this th e following fall when they are ready to be transplanted in pe rman ent locations. A stock is on hand and can be purchased from th e Division of Forestry for $2 per 1,000 and a ppro ximately BOO are sufficient for an acre
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BUT THE STATE NURSERIES LEND A HELPING HAND

First step in growing seedlings at the Division of Forestry' s Herty nursery near Albany is selection of high percentage germination seeds. M. E. Murphy, superintendent o f the nursery, looks over some cones which supplied good
seeds lost fall.
(6) Ha rvesting isn't a long nor tedious job with this " l'fting" machine which con loosen 500,000 seedlings from their moorings in 30 minutes. Neg roes put the seedlings into trucks, cover them as protection from air which wo uld dry out the tiny roots, and rush them to the grading and counting shed. All told, the plants ore exposed to the air not more than
I 2 to I 5 minutes.
(7 ) After being graded according to U. S . No . I specifications, the seedlings ore counted and bundled in lots of I,000. Wet moss from the Okefenokee Swamp is pocked between each Ioyer then the botch is wra pped in water- proof paper, covered with crocus socking and fastened with iron bonds. The nursery ships them the day they ore bundled and recommends they be planted or at least " heeled-in" as soon as received. Orders may be sent to the Division of Forestry, State Capitol.
Send yours today.

Shooing - but not shooting- the birds, who like to bring their friends and families to dine on newly planted seeds at the nursery, is the duty of this " bicycle squad." Superintendent Mur. phy never has any trouble in getting " patrolmen " for this job but they ore cautioned not
to kill the birds.

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tate Moving tieture Shows Qtgblights In Teehnieolor

GEORGIA school children, con ervation units, sportsmen's clubs, civic clubs and organizations in general soon will see our state fla hed on the screen in technicolor.
The story in the picture i of a typical yo ung married couple who decide to spend their vacation in Georo-ia. The camera catche them in various mood , in out-of-the-way places, atop orne of our mo t magnifi cient mountain s, on the beache , swimming, fi shing, going place and doing things at a terrific pace.
Louella Stone, beau tiful and
well-known Atlanta model
now in New York, plays the lead along with Marion Wil-
liams, popular Atlantan.
It required some 22 days to complete the shooting of the picture. It was necessary to travel more than 4,300 miles in order that a true picture of Georgia be given.
The story was written and the scenes et up and directed by your writer. Gordon Hale handled the camera and Mrs. Hale the script. Ro y Krauss helped with the equipment.

A WeU.pta. ed schedule was arr~ n hots include

many of the hig.b spots of the

state such M o u nds,

, on's Indian te8C !\fountain,

marble ~ work, and doz

~ns of oth tremendou~ly

tmpo~tant
and sues.

rgia industries
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Deep in the 1lernn Okefenokee Swamp the movjo picture party

penetrated some 2- miles to procure pictures of wild animal , alligators

and bird life. Airplane dips along_ the

coastal area at Brun wick provtded

beautiful hots of 11 ild hor es and speeding deer.

The 900 foot natural color film i crammed with e itinu cenes, swift
moving action and r~vealing ights
unknown to man1 Georgians. The film is designed an important step
by the Department of atural Resources into the field of visual edu-
cation . Some of the mysteries of geology are unrav ed and startling
wildlife scenes are provided in beautiful colors. tate park are shown in
all their splendor, one triking scene shows the danger and de truction of
forest fires.

Rangers iD all sections of the state gave their time and e ffort to pro,ide entertaining

scenes. So far as is known, it is the first picture of its type confined strictly to Georgia, and it is but the initial effort. More pictures on this state, its vast resources and conserva'ion-edu cational work will follow. Governor Talmadge
and Commissioner Zack D. Ctavey may be thanked for the film which will be public prop erty and shown wherever wanted over the state.
The work of parks, forest and wildlife rangers is vividly depicted. When completed the picture will aborb about 28 minute of the finest entertainment ever offered in its parti cular line.
There are some plans afoo t for a premier although the e plan are, at present, incomplete. There have been everal requests already for howing of this all-Georgia film and all r equests will be fill ed a promptly a possible. No matter where you live in the state, you are entitled to view the film. In February the Departm ent of atural Re ources stand read y to pa s this plendid picture along to the public and let Mr. and Mrs. Georgia judge its merit in the field of visual education .

Louella Stone {top left), pretty Atlanta girl was the leading lady in tho Georgia movie . Marion Williams (top right), popular A tlantan was tho leading man. 1 - Marion and Louella pause at Fargo to read state marktt of the Okefenokee Swamp . 2 - This three-winged airplane with a model A motor holds our actors' interest near Cuthbert . 3 - After taking oyster scenes near Richmond Hill on Henry Ford' s place, the crew starts back_to their cars. 4 - ln Macon they climbed steps leading to the top of an lndran Mound . 5 - ln Little O cmulgee State Park at McRae the pa rk superintendent

tells them of the points of interest. 6 - ln the O kefenokee Swamp State Pork the crew rests a moment between scenes. 7 - The plane ride in Brunswick was swell. The actors viewed the beautiful Sea Island Beach, saw wild horses and deer on nearby islands while the camera recorded the action . 8 - Actors are no difFe rent from the rest of us. When the lunch gong sounds, their appetites are sharp . Here on the terrace at Pine Moun loin they are e njoying some of lhe delicious food served from the tavern in th e State Park. (All pictures by Joe Stearns. )

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Have you heard of the land of the Cherokees , With its wonderful streams and beautiful trees?

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Of its flowers abloom, and the wild perfume That floats like a dream on the evening breeze?

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Far away in the past this quaint land lies, And around it the mists obscure arise;
It is only in dreams we may hear the shrill screams Of its eagles afloat in their native skies.

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Thus in music shall roll the Indian's proud soul As long as his rivers flow into the sea.

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ConseJVation Please !
(1) If you were hunting and came across a bird about the size of a medium-sized chicken with a long tail, bronze-brown, gray and blue-green in color, and with a white ring around its neck you would
a. hove seen a ruffed grouse. b. run like hello . c. never touch another drop. d. have seen a ring-necked pheasant. (2) Which of the following animals climb trees, occasionally or usually, when pursued? a . Raccoon. b. Groundhog. c. Mink. d. Grey Fox. e. Skunk. (3) One of the world's fastest birds is the Duck Hawk. It's fastest diving speed is probably near a. 50 m.p.h. b. 100 m.p.h. c. 83 m.p.h. d. 175 m.p.h. (4) The most dangerous snake in the United States is the a . Coral Snake. b. Mexican Dwarf Python. c. Blowing Adder. d. Diamond-Back Rattler. e. Highland Moccasin. (5) Mountain Trout generally face upstream in order to a . facilitate their feeding . b. keep the sun out of their eyes. c. watch for trout-fishermen slipping downstream. (6) The tongue of a snake serves as a. an organ of smell. b. a poisonous sting. c. a "feeler" with which it probes objects.
d. a means of frightening enemies. e. a means of attracting birds which think it is a worm. (7) Doves make a whistling sound as they fly because a. they wish to disconcert the hunter.
b. they have sound organs in their throats.
c. of the structure of their wings. d. they desire to keep the flock together.
(8) The savage muskellunge is found in a Georgia lake . This lake is
a . Jackson lake. b. Burton lake . c. lake Blue Ridge. d. Crisp County Power lake.
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OUTDOOR GEORGIA J(lnu(lry 1942

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LAWRENCEVILLE MONUMENT FIRST IN STATE

Pre tty Betty Harp e r, o f Lawrenceville, paints to th e larg e ball on top of the fi rst ma rble mo nume nt in Georg ia .

B Y JOE STEARNS
M ARBLE q uarr y work represents a mighty and vast industr y in
Geora ia. The hi stor y of the beginning of the marble work in our state reads like a novel.
A far back a the records go, the first marble monument in the state wa mined by the Cherokee Ind ia ns
OUTDOOR GEORGJA }muwry 1942

some time before 1840. It then was hauled by ox cart from Marble Hill, near Tate, Georgia to Lawrenceville. You can imagine what the roads were in those cla y - perhap it is better to say trai ls.
In 1840 Henry Fitzsimmons who mi ght j ustly be called the fa ther of th e ma rble industr y, erected this

mo nument in the courthouse yard at Lawrenceville. It was in memor y of so me galla nt Georgians.
The Iorth side of the mon ument reads:
" To Captain James C. Winn and Sergeant Anthony Bates, T exas volunteer s of this village who wer e taken in honorable combat at Goliad, T exas and shot b y order of the Mexican Commander , March
27, 1836."
On the South side of the monument are th ese words :
" Member s of the Gwinnett Company of mounted volunteer s who wer e slain in battle with a party of Cr eek Indians. Sh e phe td s Pl a ntation , Stuart
County, Ga. , June 9 , 1836.
Their remains r est b en eath this montunent."
It is reaso nable to believe that the marble used for this monument is only surface marble sin ce little if any effective machin er y was in use in th ose early clay of the industr y.
Thi s monum e nt s tood throughout the war between the states. Ther e is eviden ce that rock s or some hard substances wer e thrown against the monument b y thoughtless p er sons but the imperviousn ess of marble is establish ed as this piece of work is n earp erfect. Modern marble worker s are high in their praise of the n1onument and the work that was done on it.
Colonel J. C. Flanagan , of Law-
renceville is writing the hi tor y of the county and knows consid rable history surrounding this monum ental truclure. He ca n be located in the Lawrenceville co urt h ouse.
There i a rum or a fl oat th at citizen plan to carve something new on the blank side of the monument. Co vington i proud of the mo nument and the marble inclu tr y points to thi s erection as an example of the d urability of its product.
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1 - A/1 dressed up for winter. This Mexican Hairless pooch is owned by some folks working with one of the many Fairs which visit Georgia each year. 2 - Trixie lives in a trailer camp and faces winter with only a sweater. 3 - Any hunter would be proud of a beautiful setter like this one . 4 - Roy Wallace with his two pets. Roy and his two setters have spent many happy hours of hunting together. 5 - A couple of swell looking pointers are anxious to get into action . 6 - What' s zis! This ' Possum is an unwelcome guest and evidently does not like dogs.

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OUTDOOR GEORGIA Janua ry 1942

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After listening to some tall fish stories at a meeting of a Valdosta club, E. P. Bass, railroad executive stepped in with an achievement which could not be overlooked. With one cast- mind you-he hooked a bass that weighed 165 pounds. The boys were quick to poo pooh that story until it was proved that in making the cast, he hooked himself and- being a Bass and weighing 165 pounds- his story was true.
PERTINENT WILDUFE FACTS
Wolves, or wolf pups, do not lap water like coyotes or dogs; they sup it as does a cow or horse.-Fawns, only a few hours or days old, have no bo~y odor or scent- their only protection at that age against predators.- Male mountain lions kill the kittens at every opportunity and often the female defending her young. Such is Nature's way of holdmg them down numerically.-The ~lue Grou~e s~ldom ever approaches Jts nest twice m succession from the same direction. Nighthawk isn't a hawk at all, but is closely related to the whip-poor-will, and the chuckwills-widow and looks very much like them... Lizards are the most abundant of the living reptiles... Eels have a migration much like the salmon except in reverse! Adult eels go from ~e fresh water streams to the sea m ~e autumn and young eels make the~r way back upstream in the spnng. The eels spawn far out in the Atlantic Ocean southwest of Bermuda. . . A female bullfrog is said to .lay approximately 20,000 eggs dunng the breeding season. The eggs ?atch out in about two months and If you are interested- field mice have a heartbeat of about 250 to the minute. So there!
THE CAPTAIN CAN SHOOT! p ~aptain Neal Ellis, of the Atlanta "ohce Department, is one of those down home" shooters with a shotgun. On the January hunt in the ~ S. Piedmont Wildlife Refuge near
ound Oak, the Captain bagged his

limit in three hours and only shot into four coveys.
Dr. Julius Pierotti, of Atlanta, was Ellis' hunting partner and was so amazed at the Captain's marksmanship he did very little shooting. Captain Ellis says he learned to handle and shoot a gun as a boy. The system used to sharpen his eye and to get perfect timing is unusual. Ellis was taken into the field on a hunt with an empty gun. When a covey would rise Ellis would lift his gun, get perfect sight and click an empty gun. Several hc;mrs of this Captain Ellis says wtll cut down that wild desire to whip up a gun and fire too fast. When you look down the sights of an empty gun you just keep telling yourself you could hit that bird if you had a shell. On the next hunt take along shells and note the improvement. AI Hendley and Wade Brown, both of Atlanta, believe skeet and trap s~ooting will do ~ore to help a begmner than anythmg else. They claim it will get the tyro accustomed to handling a gun and improve timing.
Joe Farmer and T. J. Bennett Eastern Air Line pilots, spent a da; at Black Rock Country Club recently and both caught the limit of 10 bream . . . nice ones too.
ANSWERS
Conservation Please
(Continued from Poge J2 )
(1) d.
(2) All of them.
(3) 175 m.p.h.
(4) Diamond-back Rattler.
(5) a.
(6) a.
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Georgia's State Parks

(Continued from Page 6)

oped and, as a whole, and the

plan mentioned is the basis for this d evelopment and, in

turn, the completed project

presents the landscape picture

of a. State Park, so it may be

readtly seen that the desired

effect is achieved only through

thoughtful planning.

~ctu al landscape work on any proJ ect, large or small, includes

coun tless. operations. Among these

are locatwn of buildings, lakes, roads

and trails. Grading and drainage

work must be done to provide these

features without too much intrusion

of the natural setting. Then, comes

perhaps the final and most important

step - the moving and planting of

trees and shrubs, planting of grass,

the the

solodcdaitnia~n

and of

walks .and steps and then provision of mamtenance and upkeep to insure

the con tinued existence of all the

work accomplished.

It has b een and will con-

tinue to be the custom to use

only native plant materials in

the park landscape work. This

custom has not presented a

problem, for certainly no state

can boast of a greater wealth of native trees and shrub than can Gorgia. It is estimated that

250 species of trees are exist-

ing in our state and nearly every one is represented some-

where in one of Georgia's

State Parks. No accurate es-

timate could be made as to the

number of herbs, vines

native and wild

sfhloruwebrs~

that are so predominant in

Georgia woods, but the sup-

ply is plentiful!

Landscaping these parks has not

been done for a "one season effect "

but for year-around beauty. The f;ll

color of foliage of many varieties of
hpaarrtdiwcuoloadrlytrienesthaendthenamtiovuentsahirnuobus~

sections of the state, present a land-

scape picture that is almost incom-

parable. The wealth of dogwood, wild azaleas, rhododendron and mountain

laurel throughout the state is already

of national renown. Nothing can do

more to enhance the beauty of our

state than a wider usage of native plant mat.erial~ and the propagation and conservatiOn of these materials

for future use.

Visit Georgia's State Parks and see what has been done.

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<JeiJ.L Seuret Methods To Empl
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By Beverly Wallace Burch
T AKE it from a man who knows
dogs like mothers kn ow babiesdon't try to "develop" yo ur pointer or etter too fa t.
That s the first principle on which Rufus Matthews, of Villa Rica, works and some of Georgia 's fin est shoot in g as well a fi eld trial dogs have received their " diplomas" from his dog coll ege.
"The trouble with many amateur trainers is that they want to teach a dog to hunt their way instead of letting him hunt his own way," says Matthews. "And if the dog knows his business, he's a lot better hunter than the master himself."
That doesn't mean, of course, that the animal shouldn't be taught obe-
Something To Think About
(Ohio Conservation Bulletin)
When you Dads are go ing fishing, Take that boy of yours along;
Don ' t drive off and leave him wishing, Thinking maybe he's done wrong .
Let him know that you ' re his buddy; Teach him how to toss those plugs
On a lake, when streams are muddy, With that fly-rod flicking bugs.
When you 've hooked old Mr. Largemouth, Pass the rod and watch the fun .
Even if he's nearly all mouth, You ' ll get thrills- full many a one.
Bayless men, please heed my story, Take along that neighbor lad;
Teach him fishing and he' ll glory In the Buddy that he's had .
You won ' t miss a bit of pleasure If you share it with some boy.
He' ll repay you without measure While you bring to him some joy. - PAUL HALDER.
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dience and a certain amount of form but if he knows how to find bird let him do it HIS way.
"The main thing is to know and understand yo ur dog and, believe me, they're just as different in disposi tion as people are," the trainer declares.
Matthews has three training camps --one in Villa Rica where he was born and which is " home" to him; one in Manitoba, Canada, where he takes his canine students during the hot weather and a third in Martin, S.
c.
He likes to begin training pointers at from six to eight months old and setters at from eight to twelve months because "everyone knows a pointer develops earlier than a setter." Except for that, Matthews will make no decla ration as to which is the best dog. In fact, he says, when both are finished, they're equally good.
"Being a setter-man or a pointer man is just like being a Democrat or a Republican- whichever you are, why that' the best and it doesn't do any good for anyone to argue with yo u about it," he maintains.
Matthews begins by breaking in the pup to a lead, a j ob he generally handle from horseback. Extreme caution must be taken not to let the energetic pup overwork himself and so the trainer gives his beginners a 15 or 20 minute workout at the time. Overwork, especially in hot weather, often leads to convulsions, or as man y men call it, "running fits."
All the while the pup is getting accustomed to the

field, Matthews encou r ages him to chase anything h e sees -bugs, grasshoppers, butter. flies, and birds. This m ak es him "birdy" and teaches him to look on hunting as " lots of fun." Next comes the lesson in obedience. F or this Matthews chooses the simplest words, and as few of them
(1) Trainer Rufus Matthews gives E. W . Cor fer' s Rose Dot o lesson in standing steady to flush . The pointer took third place in the high
ly competitive Man itoba Derby. (2 ) Ridley' s Stylish Jake, owned by H. W . Rid ley of Atlanta, took second place in the At
lanta Field Trials; (3 ) Black' s Sam, owned by Dr. Ed Fincher of
Atlanta, on point;

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In Training Your Bird Dogs To Hunt !
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as possible - "come," "whoa," "heel," "fetch," or whatever terms the master plans to use for those comman ds.
For the shooting lesson Matthews prefers a .22 blank pistol because too much noise at first has a tendency to make the dog gun shy. And the main thing the hun ter should remember in the sh ooting lesson, he says, is to fire

from a 45-degree angle rather than from behind or directly over the dog's head, and never closer than several yards.
"Wh en the curious pup comes in to see what the noise is all about, the hunter should give him a small portion of something the dog likes very much to eat," says Matthews. " Do this for several workouts then after awhile place the tidbit in the grass a few feet away and tell him 'dead, dead'.

ly close the lid if you p lace your dog in the trunk of the car. Many fine animals have been killed by carbon monoxide poisoning in this way. Matthews likes a prospect with plenty of curi osity and mischievo usness. J'or a dog which is, as he puts it, "wild and wooly" makes an ambitious hunter- a "wide and handsome shooting dog.''
THIS MONTH'S
RECIPE

"When he's lea rn ed this, change to

a ball made of meat so he can smell

Here is on e we offer on quail that

it some distance away. Put a lead on might be just the trick for jaded ap

him, th\'ow out the meat ball and tell

petite . It's worth a try.
Take 6 dressed quail, 6 slices of dry

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him to 'fetch .' When he has found it, gen tly pull him in and take the ball

bread a nd one can of oysters. Prepare quail as you would a baked
chicken. Place in cold water. Break the

away from him. Repeat this until he bread and mix it with the oysters. Season

~nally comes in without having to be pulled- and you'll have a good

this mixture with salt and pepper and add hot water to make th e dressing as thick as you prefer.

ietriever which will never be gun shy," Matthews guarantees.

After stuffing the birds, bake them 1 and 'h hours in a covered pan at 350.
erves six people.

..,..,.._...._ .. ' Fi~:~ness, patience, and above all, th~;~~-gh understanding are the

methods the trainer must use with

his canine student.

(4) Village Banker, owned by Ray Carte r of At/onto, takes a lesson at Matthews Manitoba training camp in pointing Pra irie chickens in
the blu";
( ~) Trainer Matthews gets Village Banker in lnm for the Trials by work ing him in harness;
(6) W . F. Floyd ' s Glammergal ( forefront) and ~ay Carter's Village Banker are taken out o f lne dog wa gon for a good stamina-building
workout.

He keeps his dogs in trim condition , exP.rcising them as carefully as a coach does his football players. During the summer he cuts down on the solid foods, and although a dog is a carnivorous animal, Matthews recommends feeding liberal portions of leafy vegetables.
A hot, and especially a damp, dog should never he allowed to ride with his nose out of the window or to sit in a draft. And by all means, cautions Matthews, never entire

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Trapping Offers Adventure, Excitement!

SKILLFUL HANDLING OF TRAPS NECESSARY

By CHARLES H. WHARTON
T RAPPI G may depict a scene of snow-covered wildernesses of the north, or perhaps moss-hung bayous on the southern coastal plain. From the farm boy with his rabbit boxes to the wind-tanned sourdough of frozen lands, trapping and the fur trade have played a major role in the development of orth America. From the days of Radisson and Groseilliers to the present, hardy men have always been attracted by the adventurous trap-line.
The trapping season in Georgia opened ovember 20. Although many enjoy trapping as an exciting and somewhat profitable sport, others look upon it as wholly unmerciful procedure.
Use of the steel trap is probably the most cruel method of capturing fur-bearing animals in existance, hut as long as the demand for furs continues ev erything possible should he done to relieve suffering. Trappers should see that their traps are tended at least once a day. Those who trap often encounter an animal's foot in their trap, gnawed off by the frantic victim. This trait is especially characteristic of the muskrat. For prevention, muskrat sets should be staked out with a long chain or wire, enabling the animal to reach deep water where it soon drowns. Another effective method is to slide the ring of the chain, on a long piece of wire, one end of which is an chored to the hank, the other end being s taked in deep water.
Animals coming under the furbearing law in Georgia include the opossum , mink, muskrat, raccoon, otter, skunk, wildcat, and bear. Among our fur-bearers the mink, the otter, and the fox perhaps require the most skill and perseverance to snare.
Many various and ingenious methods have been used in trapping fox. As an example of their skill, this incident was told recently. A halfwild fox was chained to a long wire down which it could exercise. Upon being fed the animal took a piece of
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bread in its mouth, and measuring carefull y the limit of the chain, placed the bread about a foot inside his reach. The fox then retired to the other end of the wire and waited. Soon a chicken advanced cautiously on the bread. The fox had, however, calculated the distance well, and leaped upon it. The ensuing cloud of feathers and the commotion brought the owner on the run, and the unfortunate chicken was released. To capture such crafty animals meticulous care is required ; often traps are boiled in spruce boughs, and handled with gloves.
Care to outwit the fo x is not the only precaution necessary. More than once good huntin g dogs have been
This unfortunate 'possom dog, accidentally caught in a fox trap, was a happy animal when given his release. Careful placing of traps ond regular visits is only humane and
moy save some hunting dog .
ensna red in a carelessly laid trap at the base of a tree, or in a game trail, and if anything angers a hunter it is to have his dog crippled by the un yielding jaws of a steel trap.
As to the abundance of furbearers in Georgia, muskrat, opossum, and skunk are found most abundantly. Sportsmen are sometimes astounded to learn that mink are plentiful in our state. Occasionally, a trout-fisherman or hunter in some quiet spot will see one in the daytime, and will probably mistake it for a big weasel,

since the mink is almost the exact counterpart of one, elongate, and with a sinister-looking head. In order to increase the salabiJ. ity of pelts, trappers and hunters should give care to their handling. Often the inexperienced make the wrong cuts in skinning an animal, then learn to their sorrow that they have practically ruined a fine fur. For skinning, animals may be divided into three groups: cased, fur side in; cased, fur side out; and open. Those cased with the fur side in include the skunk, muskrat, civit, opossum, mink, weasel, otter, and rabbit. Fox and bobcat should be cased fur side out. Raccoon and badger are tacked out "open" (cut up stomach), and as nearly square as possible. Salt, alum or other preservative should never be used in the preparation of pelts for sale. Drying alone is suf. ficient. The fur market in the United States is tremendous, totaling over $400,000,000 annually. Among the many furs sold, muskrats provide the greatest number, and over 16,000,000 are necessary to meet the annual demand. Plucked and dyed muskrat masquerades under such names as Hudson Seal, Hudsonia, Loutrine, river Mink, and River Sable. It is interesting to note the great number of trade names which furs are purchased under, rabbit, for instance, is sold to the unassuming public under no less thaB 100 trade names!
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DOCTORS aro und Cuthbert have examined several citizens in the

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threewing auplane w1th a wmg

:pread as long as a good size fishin g

pole but not as long as the average

automobile.

These same citizens might have

had their heads examined had they

known the fac ts of this strange fl y-

in.,. machine. It is puzzling and diffi-

cult to attach any truth to the fa cts

of this ca e. The motor of this air-

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plane has been in use for many sea-

on . In fact, somebody once owned

a model A Ford and finall y the mo-

tor puttered an d gave up. It was cast

a ide.

Into the picture walked

Clifford R. Watson, well-

known Cuthbert mechanic.

He took over the worn out

model A motor. With thought

of conservation and a desire

to own an airplane, Clifford

began to overhaul the motor. In spare mo-

ments he tinkered with it and soon had

switched it from water cooled to air and oil

cooled. Around this motor Clifford began to

add a little of this and a little of that. The

result was a three-winged machine that looks

like something from another world.

The plane is red. It is 13 feet from motor to the other end. The wing spread is 20 feet. It is built to accomodate only the flier- brave fellow. The dash board is bare except for a simple switch. There is nothing else inside of great importance but the stick.
Watson explains that it takes so many cubic feet of air to so much wing- so instead of spreading out his wings, he just put in three of them. He can easily land on a high wa y.

The plane has a cruising speed of 75 miles an hour and Clifford says he can power dive it at 90 miles an hour, pull out and just hang it in the air as you could hang your coat on a nail. The plane will land at about 25 miles per hour and it will take off between 30 and 35 miles per hour. He could almost land it in your rock gard en .

That model A motor hums like a bee. The tank holds little better than 7 gallons of gasoline and gets 20 miles per gallon. And in Mr.

Watson's own words, "it goes up like a squir rei up a tree." In 50 feet Mr. Watson and his red job are off the ground. It took three months to construct this strange craft.
Your first question after seeing this unique fl ying machine would be, "Say- you wouldn't try to get off the ground with that~would yo u ?" And yo ur answer~ "Why certainly, you know, I like my life as much as you like yours and if it was not safe I wouldn't risk it."
Watson says he had a little trouble with his three wing layout right at first. " You know," Watson said, "It needed some adjustments. It kept trying to nose right into the ground and I had a hard time keeping it afloat. After a few adjustments, it was perfect. I can get up there now and turn loose everything and it will glide along as pretty as you please."
Clifford has some plans for a flying wing -no fooling-just a wing that goes up and does its stuff. And after seeing that three wing business which reminds you of a had dream-you wouldn't doubt that some day Cliff will attach wings to a bicycle and ride the tree tops.
What a sensation Watson would create if he flew his red job into some large air port. They wouldn't believe it either.

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* * COVER PAGES
Unfriendly, vicious ond desperate, this wildcot caught in a steel trap in the Chattahoochee National Forest Area by Wildlife Ranger Hoyt Seabolt offers one of the most striking pictures ever to appear on an Outdoor Georgia cover page. The animal later was destroyed and will be placed on display in the wildlife museum in the State Capitol. (Photo by Joe Stearns.)
It is the end of another hunting day and this unusual picture somehow seems to bid farewell to another hunting season in Georgia. It has been a wonderful season. Now thoughts turn to cool waters for bass and trout. It won't be long.

!/n CCkis !Issue

Blackout " Fire Hunters"
Commiuioner Zaclc Cravey

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Talmadge Praises State Employees

3

Governor Eug e ne Talmadge

Plan Your Vacation in Georgia,

State Parks Are Ideal . . .

4

R. F. Burch

W ildlife Rangers Keep Predators

Thinned Out on Refuge .

5

Wood Products Increasingly Vita~ .

6

Wa'lter Dyal

Our Canine Friends . . . .

7

Fascinating Story of Georgia Marble . 8-9
Joe Stearns

Georgia Wildlife in Pictures Pictures by Joe Stearn s

. . . 10-11

Soil Conservation Units Go "~ II Out" To Aid Farmers . . . . . . . 12-13
0 . D. Hall

My First Quail Hunt . . . . . . . . 14 Dr. Julius Pierotti

You Tell ' Em . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Joe Stearns

Conservation Please

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Found in Georgia

17

Book Review

18

The Mail Box

18

This Month's Recipe

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Blackout "Fire Hunters"
Recent ac_tion by State Wildlife Rangers in Echols County resulted in the confiscation of 30 deer hides from one man and 9 hides from another. When I saw t his collection I noted that does wer e included . It is against the Georgia law to kill doe deer at any time.
The men involved in the case are under heavy bond and no doubt will be fined to the maximum of the law or given sentences.
It is encouraging to know that public sentiment was aroused in Echols County where, for the present, there is no open season on deer. Sportsmen and hunters and the general public in South Georgia hope the guilty parties will be made to feel the full weight of the hand of justice.
The Division of W ildlife needs public sentiment in its fight to exterminate the violators of our game laws. No violator is safe when public sentiment is against him and Echols County has had enough and says so in so many words. It probably will be very unhealthy for the violator in this county in the future.
Surely many of these beautiful deer were brutally murdered by "fire hunting.'' This is simply using artificial lights at night to shine in the deer's eyes. The deer then stands stone still and the hunters walk up within close range and slaughter the animals.
Here you have the worse type of sportsman . He really is not a sportsman at all but a game hog . Such a man has no regard for the rights of his friends and neighbors. Nor can he do such a thing unless he. is inhuman and without mercy.
Many years ago it was the law in Georgia that a man caught " Fire hunting." was g iven a very stiff fine. If unable to pay the fine, then he was tied to a whipping post and lashes were appl ied vigor ously to his bare back. Of course, this was barbarous but I heard a judge once say " Even that law was too good for a man of that caliber."
When legislature convenes again I hope to get a bill passed making it prima facie evidence of guilt for a man to be in the woods at night with gun and artificial light. This law will provide that such person shall be placed under arrest and his gun permanently confiscated. Laws must be str~ng and forceful against inhuman game hogs who steal into the night, human vultures preying on the deer that belong to all the people.
And adding insult to injury, violators sent messages to Rangers in t he South Georgia deer belt, that so far as they were concerned, they would just as soon shopt a ranger as a deer: I am proud of the way my Rangers accepted this challenge and went to work . These fearless Wildlife officers have been praised by many citizens and have promised to bring in all violators w ith particular emphasis on those who attempt to intimidate officers.
Georgia is fortunate to have judges who understand this horrible situation - Judges who plainly
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FEBRUARY, 1942

OU'li"ID>OO~ GIEO~GllA

Volume X, No. VIII

ZACK D. CRAVEY, Editor

JOE L. STEARNS, Managing Editor

PAT COOPER, Associate Editor

BEVERLY WALLACE BURCH , Feature Editor

Publis hed mont h ly by The Georgia Department of N atur al Resou r ces. 422 State Capito l, Atlanta. Ga., in t he in te rest of Geor g ia wild life an d for fis hermen , h u n ters, na t u re lovers an d con ser va tion of n atu r a l resou rces. Yearly subscription s to U n ited States a n d its possess ions, and .Can a da . 75 cen ts; othe r countries, $1.50. Subscribers m ust notify us of c hal)gc of address fo u r weeks in advance or n ex t p ublication date, g iving bot h old and new address . Conten ts of t h is m aga zine m ust not be reprinted without perm issio n. Th is magazi ne is g lad
to rece ive photos, draw ings, stories and a rti cles dea li n g w ith ou tdoor subj ects, but eannot gua r antee retu rn of u nsolicited con trib ut io ns nor in sure a gains t t heir loss. Con tribution s n o t a ccom pan ied by s ufficien t postaJZ"e wi ll not be retu r ned . Entered as 2 nd class m a t te r A ugust 31. 1940, a t the post office at A t lanta, under the Ac t of March 3, 1879.

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TALMADGE PRAISES STATE EMPLOYEES

FoREFFECTIVE NATIONAL DEFENSE WoRK

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BY EUGENE TALMADGE
GOVERNOR O F GEORGIA
I T IS with great pride and gratification that I am able to r eport to the people of Geor gia the concentration of effort, the loy alt y and sincerity state employees have displayed as well as the q uick and effecti ve action by state departments since the o utbreak of wa r.
When and if war ever co mes to Georgia, and God forbid that it ever will be bro ught to our doo r steps, Georgian s will be read y to accept their burden with the same g rit an d determination as the people in London. We too, will clinch our fi st and let the world know , " We ca n take it. "
Our Department of Natural Resources including the Division of W ildlife, Division of For estry, Division of State Parks, a n d Division of Mines and Mining all undet the direction of Commissioner Zack D. Cravey, rolled up sleeves and was at work almost before the wounds had stopped bleeding from th., stab in the back at Pearl H ar.,or.
Di rector Walter Dyal, of the Forest Division assembled hi s personnel and soon supplied U ncle Sam with maps covering tr uck trails, fire breaks and locations of towers over the state. All 86 tower s a re equi pped with telephone connectio ns and have been offered to the Government either for observatio n or in conn eCtion with Home defense or both . The state's 36 fi~e trucks, some of them eq uipped Wtth two-way radios, a nd all other fire fi ghting devices were listed for

GOV. E UGENE TALMADGE
use by the Governm ent at any time. Also three radio stati ons were placed at the disposal of our Government.
The Forestry Division goes one step more in the protecti on of some 5,000,000 acres of forest. State nurser y units are selling pin e seedlings at cost to replace cut timber.
The Division of Wildlife placed its entire personnel on call for immediate d uty and cooperation with National, State and local defense officials. All state rangers were included in this order.
A drive was started to emphasize the great importance of food co nservation which a.dmittedl y is next in value to o~r country to our military operations. This wo rk includ es propagation and co nservatio n of all wildlife and fi sh. Restor ation and development of our coastal fi sheries with special attention to oysters started.
Captain Garland Peyton, Director of Min es, slipped into hi gh gear all of the means at his disposal to uncover new fields of min erals vital to

ational Defense and for the prosecuti on of the war. Government a uthorities were provid ed inform ation on Georgia 's miner al possibilities.
Drilling for oil near Albany started. Among the new possible .industrial developments is the establishment of a customs benefi ciating plant near Cartersville designed to produce high-grade manganese and iron ore co nce n t r a te.
The search for natural gas goes on at a greater pace. Experiments with rock wool by the state geol ogist proved successful and will result in the manufacture of this product, for the first time, in the South. Captain Peyton estimated approximately 200,000,000 tons of coal of satisfactory cooking grade available in Sand Mountain and vicinity. And the intensified search for new fields will go on and on. Georgia will do its part to supply the nation with essential mineral&.
R. F. Burch, Director of State Parks, co mpleted all plans .necessary to handle huge throngs of Geor gians in state operated parks this summer. Recreation is as necessary to life as most an ything else. Vacation time will see Geor gian s making short trips a nd the state parks are stretching all of their reso urces to supply ample accomodations to all.
Defense workers and soldiers in various Geor gia camps will find man y hours of wholesome outdoor activity this summer in state parks. The parks are so located that people in any par t of the state travel only a short distance to reach them which r esults in an enormous savin g of priceless tires.
In summary I am happy to say our state workers by their unselfish attitude and great effort have earned a warm spot in m y heart and surely in the hear ts of all loyal Geor gians.

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Plan Your Vaeation In Georgia Tltis Year; ... State Parks Ideal~ Use Them Often

BY R. F. BURCH
Director Divi s ion of State Parks
E XCEPT fur the so ldi ers and sa ilors and marines, America ns are not making trips to E urope these days. On acco unt of the tire rati oning, civilian s are not making long trips of an y kind for pleasure.
So thi s is a goo d time for Georgians to see Georgia and enj oy th e recreationa l fac ilities a fforded by the Parks Di vision of the State Department of atural Reso urces.
Whethe"r summer o r winter outin gs a re plann ed, the State Parks wi ll prov ide a va riety of outdoo r pleasure for Geo rg ian s or vi sitors to our state, and th ese reso urces lie ri ght at our 0 1m door to be reached with a minimum of weai: a nd tear on retreaded ti res.
At Little Ocmulgee Park near McRae, for instance, or at Laura Walker Park near Way cross, are to be found some of the finest fishing in Georgia for those who want to cast a line into the water. These attractive scenes of sport are within reach of almost anyone in South Georgia.

at present is at Fort Moun tain , which will be one of the fin est mounta in r etreats in the so uth when the program is complete.
A trip to th e spo ts of hi stori c interest might not be a bad id ea in this tim e o f national cri si . Memory, you know is the blood th at nourishes and feeds the heart of a ny peo ple. Geo rg ia has in " Liberty H all ," the home of Alexa nder Ha milton Stephens, the g reat Geo rgia patriot a shrin e that attracts th ousa nds each yea r. Under sus: pended developmen t is Kolomo ki Mound s P a rk, one of the key a rchaeolog ica l sites in the nati on a nd one of the few undi sturbed Indi an sites in the so utheast.
There are many reason s why Georgians should spend their vacations at home. Already stressed has been the economy of doing so, and the saving effected in tires and gasoline.
This is a tim e wh en it is well to fam ili a rizeJo urselves with the beaut y and g randeur o f our nati ve state. From the mountains, dow n through the little hills of Middle Georg ia and through the coastal pla in , th ere are innumerable places whose beauty rival those of any fam ed re

When summer comes and Georgian s think of vacations, which the exigencies of nati onal defense and the necess ity of sta ying close to work may cut somewhat short thi s year, they can find rest and outdoor sport at many of the Parks in the system. There is Vogel, with hotel and cot tages, with miles of mountain trails for hiking or horseback riding, and with a fin e lake for fi shing, swimming and boating. And there is quiet Pine Mountain, with a delightful h otel and cottage facilities, and an attractive lake, where boatin g and swimming and fi shing all may be en joyed.

Indian Springs, which drew 400

thousand visitors last year, is prob-

ably the best kn own and most easily

accessible of all the Georgia State

P arks. T en thousand people have visi ted thi s park in a sin gle day- and its tree-sheltered picnic groves ha ve been

Little Ocmulgee State Park near McRae has plenty ta offer vacationist. Recently cabins have been built to accomodate visitors. The fishing will be good this summer. You can swim and go for .motor boat rides too . Make Little Ocmulgee one of your stops this summer.

the scenes of more outings than any

other spo t in Georgia. Almost anyo ne in Middle Georgia

sort elsewhere. Seeing them, instills in us a natural and

ca n reach Indian Springs in a short ride, either in a car

appropriate pride in our own co untr y and own state.

or through the public tran sportation systems.

As a result of G~v ern o r Talmadge's assistance and

winter tourists, visiting Georgia, have en joy

Commi ssioner Cravey's cooperation we have added cab

ed their visit to the Okefenokee Park, whose im. penetrable and mysterious gloom is fascinating. Georgians should find it equally interesting, and
there, too, is fine fi shing to be found in season.

ins and other needed facilities at several parks this sea son. So when summ er comes around and the vacation question arises, determine to spend it in your native state. The State Parks Divi sion of the Depar tm ent of Natural

There a re nineteen Georgia State Park areas, of which

Resources will furnish gladly information about any

nin e are in operation, three undeveloped and seven in

park or reso rt under its control, and do all that it can to

process of developing. The largest development under way

make yo ur " home grown" outing a happy one.

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BALANCE OF NATURE .
'WilJlile R~ ~eep p~
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WHEN ma n moves in to ass ist nature in keepin g its balance of 11il dli fe b) pred ato r co ntr ol, he must understand trap pin g, kn o w the relative wildlife po pulatio n, and exercise ex treme ca re tha t th e balance does not 511ing too far in th e wron g directi on.
The Sta te D ivis io n of W ildlife in coo peration with th e U . S. Forest
ervice is a nx io us to build up a g reat deer, grouse, a nd wi ld turkey po pulati on in the Chattahoochee a tio nal Forest. To succeed in attaining this ~ es irable wi ld life it is necessary to keep do11n the natural enemies of these animal a nd birds.
T he fox is the natural enemy to grouse, quail, and turkey. The wildcat is the natural enemy to all of the above plus deer. Fawns perish before the ravishing d estruction of the wild cat and often adult d eer are killed though these are generally sick or much weaken ed .
othing wi ll reduce the deer populati on so fas t as an abundance of wildcats. On the other hand nat.ure's ba lan ce is upset if no wildcats a re

o n hand . They kee p the lock stro ng as they will po unce o n s ick o r weak deer. One sick deer co uld spread a di sease to hundreds.
H oy t Seabolt, State-U. S. W ildlife Ran ger in th e Chattah oochee atio nal F o rest A rea, un de rstand s th e bala nce o f nature thro ugh years o f stud y a nd su rvey . H e has abo ut 20 steel traps set in the Area and Ran ger Seabolt elimin ates a certain number of fox and wildcats each week.
Seabolt does not set his traps for wildcats or fox and then catch deer or wild boars or hears or anything. He has his way of luring.only fox and wildcats.. The Ranger has secured the secretion from the bladder of the fox and the wiJdcat which he has in a small bottle. The trap is concealed under leaves and a few drops of the secretion placed hither and yon around the trap. The wildcat or the fox will come in and sniff about the trap. Presently the steel jaws will close on his foot and h e is taken out of circulation. For

obvious reasons females of either s p ec i es are seldom caught.
Where wi ldcats are fo und in large numbers one mu st waste little sympath y on these animals. Some predator co ntrol wo rk is absolutely necessa ry a nd after all , ever y time a wi ldcat din es, one of the gentler citizens of the forest must die. Ranger Seabo lt has fo und yo ung fawns clawed and destro yed- the work of a hun g ry wi ldcat. Splendid specimens of wi ldcats ma y be seen in the State Wildlife Museum on the fo urth floor of the Capitol.

WOOD PRODUCTS INCREASINGLY VITAL; CAREFUL PLANNING, FORESTATION NECESSARY

BY WALTER DYAL,
DIRECTOil, DIVISION OF FORESTilY
B ASED upon information secured by the recent Southern Forest Survey, the total land area of Georgia is in excess of thirty-six an_d three quarter million acres. Of this area over twenty million acres is classed as forest land. This represents approx;imately fifty-seven per cent of the total land area of the State. In addition, there are nearly two and one-quarter million acres of idle and abandoned farm land that might properly be classed as potential forest land. If the latter area is included, the total potential timber producing area in Georgia would amount to nearly sixty-three per cent of the total area of the State. With favorable growing conditions found throughout the State, particularly in the Sotithern portion, this vast area is capable of producing sufficient raw materials for continuous operation of all our present varied wood-using industries and in addition would support new industries.
Unfortunately, our timber lands today are not producing to capacity due to carelessness and abuse. Nearly four per cent of our total forest area is at present non-productive. The remaining area producing two to three times that amount. This condition is partly due to lack of orotection from forest fires. Until the beginning of the defense effort our forest showed a favorable balance of annual growth over both commodity drain and mortality caused by fires, insects and disease. The war effort has brought about conditions which will reduce further the balance of net annual growth unless certain conditions are recognized and corr ection measures initiated so that a future supply of wood is assured.
Information available from a recent bulletin published by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association will give a good picture as to just what is happening in the way

of timber production to meet the demand of general use and the defense program . I was impressed and pass this information along in the hope that the public can visualize the vital importance of wood and the part wood products are pla yin g in defense.
At this time I think we should forget County and even State boundaries and think only of our whole country as unified. The Office of Production Management has already placed twenty-two items made of wood or wood products on the "critical list." Items such as ship decking, structural sections for training planes, laminated airplane propellers, boxes and crates for packing bombs and even our fast "mosquito" boats are made of wood. In addition, wood

products are necessa ry fo r gun stocks and one of the most important of all is the use of lumber to house our trnops now in training.
Of course, all these wood products do not come f rom Georgia or from the vicinity where they are used. One lum. berman in Macon, Georgia, has shipped lumber to army camps on the Gulf and Atlantic coasts from Texas to Maryland, and in turn these camps get window sashes from the white pine forests in the East and doors from the Douglas fir country on the West coast. What one section cannot provide in the way of wood
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Unburned, forests are vital to National Defense . This picture shows what con be done if proper care is exercised to keep fires out of your woods.

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1 - Earle Johnston snapped this splendid picture of his Terrier. Earle uses this dog to run down rabbits and claims the Terrier is on expert in this line. 2 - This is a sight that will bring joy to any hunter. Three dogs on a point. Somebody did a grand job of training. 3 -Here is one of the prettiest sights in sports. Often ihe success of a hunt depends on how well the dog
performs . This one knows his business . 4 -
J. L. Brooks enjoys the friendship of Carl Flock ' s dogs at Lake Jackson. Dutchess (right ) is the pointer and Kate is the setter and Brooks says rhese dogs can hold their own in any company. S - Hey fellow - don 't look so sad. He is "Trouble " the dog that flew to Georgia from Hollywood to play in the "Swamp Woter11 picture. 6 - This pup is starting mighty early . Ralph Buice at the game farm tells some tall tales about
how this little fellow can find birds. 7 -
Tommy Stocks smiles his approval holding this puppy owned by " Iri sh " Lyle.

fascinating Story of Beor

Nestled in the foothills ofthe historic Blue Ridge Range and along the rim of Long Swamp Valley, is Tate, Georgia, perched proudly on its solid foundation of marble. And the story of Georgia marble reads like a chapter from your favorite story book. A story that could be told over and over again with never-ending interest. Ages and ages ago, yes sir, even before earl y Americans gathered around bon fires to sing, "Buffalo Gal Aiu'tcha Coming Out Tonight" and even ages before Columbus talked the Queen out of her wrist watch, string of pearls and various and sundry jewels to lay away in Uncle Jake's hockshop for enough cash to buy boats for a joy ride on the Atlantic, things were happening geologically.
It seems Georgia's marble formation started with the birth of myriads of tiny sea organisms. These organisms had little to look forward to at the time and generation after generation lived and died quietly. They piled up deposit after deposit. Then came geological upheaval that produced intense heat and liquified these deposits. As they cooled they mysteriously left the limestone- stage and lo and behold- Georgia had marble. At any rate that is the general idea of how marble got here from the start. be alarmed over a shortage, of Georgia marble. Geologists estimate there is enough left around Tate to last 1800

1 -Steam and electric drills sound like machine gun fire as these workers shape up and inscribe Georgia marble at Tate. 2 - Steady hands are necessary for lettering . 3 - No this is not a visitor from Mars nor a Buck Rogers character. He handles the sand blower which hurls sand against the marble at a terrific force and cleans the marble to a bright lustre . His headpiece prevents facial iniury or perhaps the loss of a~ eye. 4 - 0n e of the huge working pits which gives up marble for hundreds of purposes. 5 - With this machinery workers are able to tunnel under for large cuts of marble. 6 - This pit showing one of the marble working mach ines, is e xtremely deep. It is another one of those quarries being worked . Ther e are a great many quarries in operation with plenty in reserve and prepared to supply marble as it is needed.

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arble Rea~s li~e novel ~

years. If yo u don't believe it just st ick around and see. H. L. Litchfield, Vice-President of th e Tate quarries, recently personally supervised a trip into the marble works just to show me what is goi ng on . I remember he mention ed marble is fou nd from Maine right on down to th e Gulf of Mexico.
Marble isn 't exactl y the chea pest thing on the market today but in Tate you would think it was a dime a ton. You might see a marble barn, marble steps lead ing up to modest homes, marble gutters, marble here and marble there. Even the road to the quarry is paved with crushed marble. The high school in Tate is built with marble and may be considered one of the most permanently constructed schools in the world.
The beauty of Georgia marble has no equal. It bas been u sed to contruct the state capitols of Rhode Island and Minnesota. The post office in Augusta; the "Civic Virtue" statue in New York; the Illinois Memorial, at Vicksburg, Mississippi; the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago; the post office in New Orleans; the Stock Exchange in New York; the Lincoln Memorial in WashiQgton , D. C.; the public Library and Art Museum in Cleveland, Ohio are but a few items constructed from Georgia marble.
When Georgia was making preparations to build the present Capitol some in vestig ato rs were sent up to Tate to consider Georgia marble . We planned to

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7 - Note steps on the side of this quarry. Some of bottoms
of quarries are filled with a greenish water. Even in the sum
mer this wafer is extremely cold. 8 -lt seems all th e hills around
Tat e have a supply of marble. Some marble is crushed and used as feed for cattle . 9 - Marble is heavy. Th is towe r of steel can easily lift
50 Ions at a time and set it off an level surface . 10 - He re is the hook
that slips un der the cable which is wrapped around tons and tons of marble fa be hauled from quarry bottoms. 11 - Each piece of marble shown here is marked and registered. As it is needed, this supply is moved into the workshop . 12- A pretty picture - this marble stacked against the side of a large hill. Some of it will find its way info a post office, a statue ar monument. Make Tate one of your 11 must'' .stops this summer when you toke your vacation in Georgia.

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. ~o it 's d uc k hunting you enjoy . In three easy less.o ns, here is how it is done . 1 - Hunter fires (if you
mss 1f does not count ) and dog tokes to wate,, 2 -Tfte retriever ma kes conta ct and moves to shore. 3 -

Dog delivers . Hu nter is happy and that's duck huntin Duck pictures taken at Silver Lake by Lane Bros .)

4 - lt is always cool in this beauti ful observation low! ; in the park near Co rnelia . S - They ore ducks .

Just plain, lome ducks livi ng o n on island near Brunswick but que er birds. Th e ir h e ads ore apple -red. A

sight to see. 6 - Peagler Lake, a few miles from Ho merville, offers some sp le ndid bass fishing . 7 - The

biggest enemy to Georgia 's bird population. Th is cot is ready to p ounce on o bird . Stray co ts shou ld be

d estro yed . 8 - W ho says you can' t catch the big ones in the winter. M. Nl. Blum e, of Lumpk in , hooked

this 12 pound sma ll-mouth b a ss in Phillips Pond in December. 9 - Fort Pulaski, on Cockspur Island at th e
mouth of th e Savannah Rive r shows its baffle scars fro"' long ago . 10 - Pau l W. Chapman , Jr. , a 12 year

old hunter, proudly shows wh at he can do with a 20 guoge gun . Young Cha pman shot these two wild

turk ey in time lor Christmas dinner . His kill was recorcled Decemb er 23 on th e Sea Island hunting pre -
serve. Nice going pal! 11 - Pretty Mary Carmichael, ol Iifton , feed s her pet b e ar a cracker. The Mary we

knew had o lamb but oh Mary - where' d you gel that bear?

1 2 - How is this for big -mouth bass? .

13- At the dam of Peagler' s lake, the overflow whips up loom . It' s beaut iful to watch . 14- Spotted

weakfish or sea trout if yo u prefer, jvst o lew hours O""OY from a frying pan . This swell catch is the

result of some expert fishing by Milledge Murph y, Jr George Ma rtin , T. f. Fore and Powell Goolsby at
Contentment Bluff. Bait?- You bet- live shrimp. Time - oember. 1S - Cone gri nding time and jugs on th e

line. 16- Ph easanfs at th e state game farm . 8eautil I birds but unfortuna te ly not practical for Georgia .

Soil Conservation Units Go ~~All On

CONSERVE NATURAL RESOURCES OF FARMS IS PURPOSE IN ORGANIZINf~

BY 0. D. HALL
A S ISTA T STATE COORDI NATOR U. S. SOIL CONS ERVATION SERVIC E

T 0 co nserve the natural reso urces on their farm s, Geo rgia farm ers have organized themselves into 19 Soil Conservation Districts during the last four years. These include 24 million acres of land in 110 of the 159 counties in the State. The Georgia Soil Conservation District law, under which the farmers have organized these units, provides for the conser vation of the soil and soil reso urces, for the control and preventi on of soil erosion and thereby preserve their na tural resources, control fl oods, pre vent impairment of darns and reser vo irs, assist in maintaining the navigability of ri vers and harbors, pre serve wildlife, protect and promote health , safety, and general welfare of the people.
Most of the 19 districts have
been organized and started op-
erations during the last 18
months. Each one has a board
of fi ve supervisors, composed
of local farm people who are
the governing body for the dis-
trict.

Realizing the importan ce of the conservation program, the superv isors have called on local, state a nd Federal agricultural agencies for technical assistance. The Extension Serv ice has been acti ve with the educational program both before and after the districts were organized. The Farm Security Admini stration is wo rking to gel all of its clients to establish a district co nser vation pr o gram. The Vocational Ag riculture teachers are assisting in getting plans and practices established on far ms within their school districts. The Soil Conservation Ser vice provides assist ance in planning and establishin g practices on individual farms for a complete conservation program.
Farmers desiring conserva-
tion plans for their farms,
mak e application to the dis-
trict su pervisors, who place
them on a priority Jis t, which
is turned over to the Soil Con-
servation Service for making
the plans. This Service makes

a conservation survey map of the farm, showing the soil type, d egree of erosion, slope, present land use and classification of land according to its land u se capability. The p lanning conservationist takes this map and wi th the farmer goes over the farm, discussing the present physical conditions, needs of the farm from economic standpoint, and makes a plan to conserve the farm in the future.
This plan provid es for water disposal system incl udi ng tet'raci~s, meadow strips a nd other d isposal areas, rotati ons, strip croppin g, retirement of land from ro w cr ops to perman ent vegetation such as Kudzu , lespedeza, trees or other thick g row ing crops, forest management, pasture improvement, a nd other practices necessar y for erosion co ntroL
The districts, in a limited way, have been in positi on to furni sh coopera ti ng fa rmers kudzu , seedlings, trees, sh r ubs and other planting m aterials along with so me equipment in help ing the farm er to cany out his progra m. Already eight thousa nd farms of approxima tely two million acr es have been planned with a large part of co nser vation practices established.

LEFT- Group studying con se rvation plan on. farm of Omer 8rook1, Franklin County . Group includes. le ft to right: Ludy C. Holey, Jam es Woody, Cliffo rd H. Griffin, Alto n 8 . Rogers, planning technician, and Mr . Brooks.
BELOW- Farm e r and planning con serv ation ist discussing his farm ing operations prior to making a lo ng time conservation plan for his form.

Aid Farmers With War-Time Crops
The growth of the Soil Conservation Districts and the progress they have made with their program is due to the fact that they were organized by farm ers and are operated by farmers und er authority of a State law which makes them units of government in which the principles of democra ti~ action are part of the wo~k in solving the conservatiOn problems of the people m their communities.
Soil conservation is greatly increased in importance since the outbreak of war. Saving yo ur land , stopping erosion will mean bigger and better crops. Bigger and better crops is insurance our boys will have plenty of uood wholesome food. apoleon once r emarked, "An ~rm y travels on its stomach. " We can help our army march right on in to Tokyo if we take care of our land.
Land properl y handled becomes a ha ppy haven for wildlife. Quail frequently make thei r homes near well culti vated lands. Get in touch with yo ur county soil con ervation ch ief, let him help yo u plan for the future.
ABOVE- The fa rmer a nd pla nning conservationist go over the entire farm and together to make a conservation pion . The plan provides for a water disposal system of terracing ; meadow strips and other .wafer disposal areas. Also, included in the plan is strip cropping, wildlife borders, improved pastures, forestry martogement and other
conservation practices.
*
LEFT- Farm showing considerable dama g e from erosion and the need for conversation
practices to stop this soil loss.

RIGHT-A well planned farm showing terracing , strip croppi ng , meadow strips, wildlife borders, imp roved pastures, forests and other co nservation practices ne cessary in controllin g erosion and maintaining the
soil fertility.

OUTDOOR GEORG IA

13

The gang is all here! The get-ready signal

1. It was the opening day of the regulated quail hunt
in the Piedmont Refuge, near Monticello . My first surprise was that I hod to get up at 4 A. M., having worked unt il after midnight, and by the time my pals (left to right - Assistant Chief Neal Ellis, AI Henley, Wade Brown, all of Atlanta, and I am the sleepy f e llow on th e e)l[f re me right wondering what it is all about ) put th e dogs in the trailer it was still before 6 o ' clock and st ill dark .
2. When we arrived on the Refuge it was about 9
o 'clock and we were ready to start . As two persons were allotted a special area to hunt it was decided that Chief Ellis would be my partner . As a police officer he would know his way around with a fellow on the loose with a dangerous firearm. As I walked across th e fi e ld I lifted my gun at everything that flew up. Frankly I didn ' t even know what a quail looked like. Field sparrows don ' t know it but they were in grove danger wi th me out in the field that day. We walked through woods, ruts, creeks, swamp, burrs and over rough country for an hour. That gun was sure getting heavy. Suddenly, Mi ssie the dog, stuck her toil out and her nose forward a s if she hod seen something sh e wa s afraid to tackle . Chief Ellis told me to get ready to fire as we hod found birds. All at once, something hopped up right und er my fe e t and it was all I could do to hold on to th e gun much less shoot it. Chief Ellis shot three times and hod three bird s. Oh well, now that I know just wait until I see th e next covey.
3. We were accompanied by Supervisor of Rang ers
Ed Wall, o swe ll fellow , and Mr. W ynens, a Rang e r. It d id n' t toke these fe llows long to understand and eve ry time I lifte d my gun, both of them ran for o tre e. Th e y we re smart. The next covey scored th e day lights out of me and I was so occupied watching Crackshot Ellis I didn ' t shoot again. It was ilJst as well for my safety was still on .
4. See- What did I te ll you. Yes sir, I hit one. Here
you see my victory smile . This time th e quail got up and after look ing bock at me , figured it was safe to fly slow . Sassy devil. I only shot twice .
5. You know - it 's hard to fool o pointe r. This dog
knew who shot th e bird in this covey. Look who she' s giving the bird to . I' m the fe llow on the left with the gun . Don ' t ask why. Honestly- ! can ' t und e rstand it. In that last covey over 20 birds hop ped up right in front of me and I shot right into th e pock. I missed and shot again with the some result.
6. Almost every time our dog would bring in o bird
and give it to Chief Ellis, who by this tim e is just one short of his limit and has not wasted o single shell, the dog would li e down and wallow in th e gross. The dogs get oil the breaks. lucky pooch .
7. Hey Chief- I sow one go this way . Now wh e re in
the dickens did that qua il go? Well how did I know you couldn' t find birds without a dog and you con hardly hit ' em in the woods? At any rote I hod o wonderful time and as soo n as I get o couple of month s rest , and practice o little, I' ll be ready to try it all over again next hunting season .

Happy hunting grounds

How About lhe Little Ones?
Most fis he rm en are interested in th e big o nes. ~ ize m ea~ s ever ythin g vhen fishing tnps ar e discussed back home. The little fellows who depart fr om thei r aq uatic homes aren' t g iven much considerati on.
E. W. Gudger wr ites an interestin g article in the November issue of N atural History magazine, a swell publicati on , and thro ws li ght on the
1~orld 's sm allest fi sh. It is the "dwarf
pi"'my" (Pa ndaka pygmaea ) . This fi sh, so Lilliputian in size, tha t it would take 16,000 of them to provide a meal, is ca ught mostly in Lake Buhi on the Island of Luzon , in the Philippines. Of course, at this time, few people wo uld care to dine in the Phili ppines even for so ap pet1zmg a dish as 16,000 fish will offer.
Under normal conditions a meal of these little fish ma y be purchased for a few cen ts. A nd fi sh cakes made up of th ese midgets of all water s a re considered a delicacy. F ull g rown, the fem ale is bu t two-fifths of a n inch .

* * *
Ca nine Fishing, No Kiddin'
There seems to be no limit to the abilities of dogs to serve their masters. If I had not seen pictures of dogs fishing, I wo uld poo poo the idea.
Mrs. L. M. Per r y, of Sa nibel Island, Florida, owned a do g nam ed "Dom ." Mrs. Perr y enj oyed watching Dom swim close to shore and snapping up small fi sh fo r food. Dom caught on ly enoug h to satisfy his appetite 11hich makes him a better conenationist than most fi she rm en. He fished for f un and food and knew when to stop.
, Dr. Hen ry orr is, wh o lives near Georo-etown, S. C., tells of an 1rish
span iel that enj oyed fi shin g. And Mr.
E. H. Scott, of Richm o nd , Indiana ,
owned a blooded pointer named "Boy" that was a skilled hand at fishi ng.

G.eIofrgt1.haerIe

are wo ul

a d

ll)' ap

p

fi shin or ec i a teb

doas in infob r ma-

~I on conce_rn in g th em. What's more,

dogwoIunldacthikoen

to for

aet pictures of the bproo f to so me who

beli eve that anybod y who would write such stuff is apt to be found cuttin g o ut the fl owers from the wall pape r.
* * *
Consider the Shrimp When consideration is brought to bear on the fact that the sh rim p is third largest amon g U. S. sea-foo ds a nd exceeded only by salmon and sardines, then shrimp certainly is not insignificant by any stretch of imagination.
Shrimp at Sa vannah
The female lays approximately a m illion eggs during her lifetime of which only a male and female survives, on the average to complete their own lives. It is perhaps unfortunate that more do not mature that the ocean's shrimp population m ight show better results. The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service has ex plored coast lin es in h o pes of un coverin g new shrimpin g g ro un ds a nd thu s far, their efforts have not been encouraging.

OUTDOOR GEORGIA February 194:2

All of which leads up to the point that some day there will be a limit reached on the annual shrimp catch. Boats will hring in smaller catchee. Improved methods of taking shrimp and increased number of shrimp boats are taking a uemendous toll of shrimp life. Biologists believe the industty is near the limit of possible production. State laws prohibit shrimping in th e so unds during spaw nin g season. This has been of great importance to the Georgia shrim p industry. A closed season along the coast mi ght be the answer. Admittedl y, so me action is necessary. After all a shrimp cocktail is a palatable dish. It wo uld be tragic if scarcity skyrocketed the price to where yo u would have to pay- say $2 per shrimp cocktail.
* * *
From the Notebook Nick Vismor has a safety slogan for hunters, "Do n't shoot until it moves- It might be a WPA worker" ... Chester Baker, Route 5, Tifton, issues an open i nvitation to fox hunters. Chester says his place is so full of fox, they stand in line waiting for him to turn out his chickens in the morning. Write Chester if yo u want to go fox hunting and mention Outdoor Georgia. Congratul<:!tions to the girls at the Atlanta Telephone Company. T hey have a smile for each customer and a cheerful "Good morni ng." Wh y, it is almost a pleasure to pay your phone bill. . . . During S ugar ca ne season , ] . B. H enry does plenty of grinding. He says doctors tell patients to drink it .and sa ys cane juice has one more vitamin than citrus fruits. Henry sells hundreds of gallons from his shop on the road to Perry from Macon. .. .
BOMB SHELTERS Moles spend most of their lives un: derground, often in a series of sub-
terranean tunnels 12 to 18 inches be-
neath the surface.
15

Conservation Please
(1) A large, black bird, similar to a crow, is found in certain portions of Georgia, especially the mountains . It is the a . red-tailed hawk b. night jar c. raven d. merganser
(2) The White Hickory is often called "mockernut hickory" because a . mockingbirds feed extensively on the nuts b . it was named after Thomas P. Mocker c. the winter buds are large, round and egg-shaped d . .the thick husk of the nut is deceiving
(3) One of the smallest ducks is the a . wigeon b. bluebill c. gadwall d. bufflehead e. hooded merganser
(4) Probably the most valuable plant for stopping bad gully erosion in the south is. a . bluegrass b. pitch pine c. lespedeza d. kudzu
(5) Which of the following animals have become extinct in Georgia? a . bison b. carolina parrakeet c. bay lynx d . spotted skunk
(6) Because they damage fruit trees only one of the American woodpeckers does not warrant protection . These are the a . sapsuckers b. red-headed woodpeckers c. flickers d. red-bellied woodpdckers
(7) Young pines should be planted close together because a . they shield the wind from each other b. it be-wilders tree-boring insects c. it prevents "bushing" d. they effect an interchange of food throug~ the roots
(8) Wh ich of the following trees have seed burrs or prickly seed-pods probably derived to be unattractive to hungry animals?
a. yellow birch b. pin oak c. chinquapin d. beech
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GEORGIA MARBLE
(Continued from Page 9 )
use Georgia marble to buil d o ur Capitol. Our investigato rs came back with the report that there was not suffic ient marble there to build the Capitol. So our State Capitol is built with Indiana limestone although Georgia marble was used extensively on the interior. The first carload of marble shipped was sent to Atlanta and used on the Kimball House.
The din and roar of the quarries bein g wo rked might so und like a great naval battle. Day by day tons and tons of marble are cut and li fted to the surface, yet executi ves calmly sa y, "We have only touched our marble lightly." That statement is amazing when you peep down 400 feet into one vast pit after another.
The fini shing mills are flu sh with activity. Enormous cutting tools are busy. Men with air drills are busy. Every visitor is fascinated watching the diamond smv do its job. It is called diamond saw because each tooth of the blade is set with a diamond. Texas named oil "black gold " Georgia named marble "white gold." About 800 workers are required to keep Georgia marble movin g along its road to fam e and everl astin g beauty in construction.
e. sweet gum f. chestnut (9) Which of the follow ing tree groups generally yield the best bark for tanning purposes? a . pine and willow b. oak and hemlock c. aspen and beech d. ironwood and hickory
(Answers on Page !8)
ENJOY the thrills an
OUTBOARD MOTOR - - - - o f fers
Fish out- of- the- way places.
*****
Motors sold, serviced and
rented at
ATLANTA OUTBOARD MARINE
LOUIS TROTZIER
. 311 Spring St. Atlanta

WOOD PRODUCTS
VITAL
(Continued from Page 6 )
products another section of our country can. The Nation. al Lumber Manufacturers As. sociation says that twenty-nine billion boar-d feet of lumber were used directly for national defense in troop housing, de fense construction of ships ship yards, assembly plants: etc., and boxes and crates. It is estimated that a total of about thirty-three billion feet will be used in the current year. Of this, seventy per cent will be used for building and construction, twelve per cent for boxing and crating, nine per cent for industry, furniture and automobiles, six percent for railroads, and only about three per cent will be exported.
Ma n y tons of iron and steel could be saved for armaments if wood is substituted in co nstruction. For instance, if one tho usand board feet of lu mber is used instead of steel in the manufacture of office desks, about one ton of metal is saved. By using one ton of metal manufactured into nuts, bolts, split-ring connectors for use with wooden trusses, and frames fo r buildings approximately eleven tons of iron and steel will be available for armaments. Wood can be and is being substituted for metal more and m ore no w in co nstruction work when ever practical.
Citizens of this State can do their part by preventing fires in our woods and fields and reforesting our idle lands.
Looking into the future after the present emergency is over, there are .still going to be farms in Georgia that will need a good wood crop to s upple"ment their income from other fa rm c rops. and I wo uld like to say that there is no time like the present to sta rt preparing for the future. Ther efore " Let preparedness be our watch wo rd. "

SMALL MOUTH BASS LARGE MOUTH BASS BLUE GILL BREAM SHELL-CRACKER BREAM

Live deli ve r y guaranteed. Wri te for prices and infor mat io n.

JAS. H. REEVE,

Calhoun, Ga.

OUTDOOR GEORGIA February 1942

FOUND IN

OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS

THER~ is a str~n ger ~n ~ ur ~id_st. And ~o stra_ngerlives 111 Georgia. This time It IS a coatJmund1.
Th e coatimundi looks a great deal similar to our coon except it has a long tail and a long fa ce. This one lives in Tifton. Georgia and belongs to the Carmichael family.
Mr. Carmichael is very fond of animals and near his filli ng station in Tifton he has at one time o r another displayed two lions, a bear, deer , sq uirrel, and now- of all things a coatimundi. Mr. Carmichael ordered this little fellow from South America.
]. D. Holland, operator of the fillin g stati on is more or less in charge of the coatimundi. Holla nd says the animal does not mind being handled by its tail and it is often carried along as if it were a suitcase.
When the coatimundi is released from its cage it immedi ately digs its nose into th e earth and moves along on the order of a plow. It co nsiders earth worms a delicacy. It also enj oys an ts: Th e coatimundi will weigh about 15 pou nds and is very gentle. He is not an y too fond of gi rls and here it is suspected the feeling is mutual. Scraps fro m the table make up a large part of its diet. Thi s coa limu ndi has won man y friends in Tifton. He makes a swell pet- so they say.

Roadside Mineral Display in Oklahoma.
GEORG IA'S ribbons of pavement stretching into all secti ons Of the state are dotted with hundreds of stores, shops, novelty ca bins, fillin g stations, hot dog stands, apple cider sta nds and such. You can purchase just about any thing yo u need from a bed spread to a sack of pecans. It definitely is big business. Still Georg ian s engaged in this business may be overlooking a bet. In Arkansas, Oklahoma and Missouri one ma y find road stands that not onl y deal with the variety of products mentioned above but also are stocked with various minerals. Huge signs announce these mineral specimens. The specimens also ar e attracticely di splayed and the purchase price sta r ts at lOc. And business is good-yes sirvery good. T he gia nt quartz glitter and visitors in speeding automobi les are provided with a temptati on to halt and look a round . This business is carried along in conn ection with fillin g stati ons, etc. Captain Garland P eyton, State Geologist, is conv inced thi s type of business is a golden opportunity for somebody. Geo rgia is rich in min erals. Students of. geology certainly wo uld freq uent such a place. Professors definitely will be interested . Opportunity is knocking at somebody's door.

looks like a Coon
OUTDOOR GEORGIA February 1942

J. D. Holland with his pet Coatimundi

Digging for dinner/
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@J The MAIL BO~

BOOK RBVIBWS

HANDBOOK OF BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA By Frank M. Chapman
Published by the D. Appleton-Century Company, New York Price $5.00

Readers . interested in birds, either as nature lovers, or prof~sional naturalists, will find Frank Chapman 's Birds of Eastern North America of inestimable value in the study of bird life. This is the " bible" of students. It is complete, yet compact and convenient.
The revised edition now contains .ll6 introductory pages contrasted to 31 of the older edition. In the Birds of Eastern North America many and varied topics are treated in an interesting and instructive way. Mr. Chapman's numerous experiences in all portions of the globe, backed by fifty years of association with the American Museum of Natural History have combined effectivel y in his treatment of bird-banding, migration, food and nesting habits, song, and other events marking the lives of our feathered friends. Mr. Chapman, earns the title, "the dean of American ornithologists."
The Handbook treats the species in standard order, and for each bird a

color description is given together with measurements, remarks, range, description of nests and eggs and interpretations of character and song. Numerous drawings help in clearing up minor difficulties of identification, together with beautiful plates by the artist-naturalist Louis Agassiz Fuertes. In many instances keys are provided whereby puzzling birds may be easily " run down ," and thus identified.
From this interesting and useful guide we learn many useful and instructive facts, like the instance where 1,400 birds were killed in one night by striking a newly-erected statue, or how birds carry on a great fight against insect-pests the toll of which is something close to $2,000,000,000 annually. Few realize that one small warbler can devour plant lice at the rate of 5,270 an hour.
Between the covers of this book is a complete education in bird study, and no ornithologist or bird-lover would want to be without it.

BLACKOUT "FIRE HUNTERS"

(Continued from Page 2)
show disgust with such characters guilty of 11fire-hunting11 and Judges who do not nesitate to exercise their full authority in protecting our wildlife for respectable citizens.
We realize" that Georgia still has some men left who carry on such hog.gish practices but I assure every citizen, the State Wildlife Division will leave no stone unturned to bring these men face to face with a court of justice. I am grateful to all citizens who

will report such acts. Such information will be treated with strict confidence. Help us -stamp out this practice.
3~ ~. eiUWlUf
PROLIFIC, YOU BET! The cod is one of the most prolific of fi shes, a female 39 or 40 inches long produ cin g about 3,000,000 eggs and one of 4I inches at least 4,000,000.
LESS TURTLES, MORE FISH More and better fi shing is th e goa l of the "Grand Order of Turtle Exterminators" now seeking a membership of one thousand to eradicate turtles in southeast Oklahoma.

M r. J. L. Stearn s,
O utdoor Geo rgia, 422 Sta te Ca pitol,
Atl a nta , Ga.

Feb. 5, I942

Dear J oe:
1 hav e been read in g " Outd oor Georgia" with great interest. Alth ough 1 have been ca lled to acti ve duty in the United States Army an d don' t have the opportunity to do any hunting and fi shin g, I am still grea tly int erested and do all of mine by proxy in readin g yo ur "stuff." Thus far 1 have bee n stationed in Atlanta.
1 was mu ch interested in yo ur article on th e J ackpot of Gold in the Georgia m o unt a i~,s, and al so th e art~c l e on "Seeing Geo rgia. F ew Georgians m my opinion have taken th e trouble to look at the thin gs aroun d th em and are go ing miles to see " nature" which is certainly exhibi-
ted in th e raw in th eir own .,back _yards.

Kind est personal regards,

HE R Y L. BOWDEN.

_u THIS MOITH'S~ RECIPE =

-:rl,

Save this one until next deer sea so n. It's a swell dish.

I 5-lb. shoulder of ve ni so n
1,4 l b. diced bacon 1 onion

I little clove garlic 6 medium potatoes

Salt a nd pepper meat a nd rub garlic burl cut over it. Make holes in th e meat at severa l places, forcing di ced bacon and oni on in. Spli t pota toes are pl aced aganist
the meat. Severa l thi cknesses of damp cloth should
be wra pped a bout th e meat , th en several layers of wra pping paper. Then cover the pa per about a n in ch thi ck with damp
mu d. This s~ o ul d be placed in a twb-foot bed
of red hot embers, coverin g it well with hot coa ls. Let mea t roast for a n hour and a half, remove th e coverin g and it's ready.

ANSWERS:
Conservation Please
(Continued from Page I 6)
(1) c.
(2) D. (3) D. (4) D.
(5) the first two
(6) A.
(7) c.
(8) the last four
(9) B.

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OUTDOOR GEORGIA February 194Z

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A ND ANIMALS

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Will C. Salter, of Rochelle, Georgia, who is stationed at Fort McPherson, shows concentration as he runs his line up his fishing rod. Will ejnoys fishing, in fact, it is one of his favorite sports, but the more serious business of Army life takes up his time now.
On the back page is a view in Cloudland Canyon State Park. Captain Garland Peyton {left), Director of Mines; Luke Woodall, State Parks Engineer and Tom Ham, Atlanta Journal feature writer and photographer {sitting down) enjoy in this breath-taking ~ight.
(Photos by Joe Stearns)

!Jn CCkis !Issue

Page

What's Your Hobby? .

2

Commissioner Zack Cravey

Fishing and Hunting . . . .

3

Georgia Protects White Pine

. 4-5

Georgia in Pictures . . . .

6

State Starts "Fawn Nursery"

7

Caves at Cloudland Canyon State Park . . . . ..
Joe Stearns

. 10-11

A Good Dog Is Necessary

For Quail Hunting .

12

This Month's Recipe

13

Conservation Please

13

The Mail Box .

13

Found in Georgia

15

Mother Goose .

15

R. A. F. Cadets Want "Chawnce"

To Shoot Quail . . . .

. . . 16

By Beverly Wallace Burch

You Tell 'Em . .
Joe Stearns

. . . . . . 17

Spring Ends Winter Sleep of Hibernators 18

Public Sentiment Favors Georgia Rangers

in Drive Against Violators .

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WHAT'S YOUR HOBBY?
Bombastic headlines daily tell us of the horrors of war. We appreciate the value of accelerated production of war matrials and in simple language it only means we all must dig deeper, work harder and produce more and more. The human body under normal even-tempered conditions has remarkable endurance. All of us are willing to give abundantly of our physical and mental powers if it benefits National Defense. But-attention must be given to jangled nerve5 and tir~d muscles.
With conditions such as they are now relaxation takes on new importance. I suggest a hobby for every man, woman and child. A hobby often leads to invention and its soothing, comforting effect is the medicine all of us need to hold down that tense, overworked feeling .
Nature hobbies are open to all. Even in a large city, a hobby is practical. No large sums of money will be needed-just time-the time you have away from your gruelling tasks. For example ornithology can be your hobby 12 months in a year. The study of birds is truly fascinating. Give it a try for two weeks and you will be sold on the idea. Our libraries are full of good books on birds. Georgia offers great opportunities for the study of birds in real life.
Get a pair of binoculars and study birds first-hand. The bird student learns to call the names of his feathered friends. He begins tGl understand plumage changes. Then too, there is the thrill you get out of construction of bird houses and feeders and attracting them to your own back yard. Keep notes on the arrival and departure of the birds. Take pictures of them and soon-those ragged nerves will disappear, I do not intend to create the impression that our people should forget the war and its dismal prospects-! only hope to give them something new to do to give them good nerve and physical balance.
For those interested in the construction of bird houses, plans may be secured from the Department of Agriculture, Washington,
Butterfly collections are beautiful. Then too, take up the study of some Georgia animal that interest you. Find out all you can about it. Take notes and gather all possible information. Soon you have become expert on coons, squirrels, wildcats, deer or perhaps snakes. Bees are interesting. The list of subjects is unlimited.
Connie Watts, of Baldwin, qualifies as an expert on Blue birds and Martins. Connie can tell you story after story on these birdsinteresting stories with great human appeal.
Consider too, your hobby will take you into the woods, send you on hikes along woodland trails. Your lungs drink in fresh, pure air. The trail blazing provides valuable exercise. Doctors often prescribe this sort of thing but many people have no real incentive for excursions of their woodlands. What is better to get off those extra pounds you have put on in your easy chair at home. To ap predate and understanding of nature and the work of God's hand, you must earn it. Start your hobby today. And I would appreciate a note from you telling me about it.

MARCH, 1942

0U'1f[))(Q)(Q)lRi GIE(Q)lRi<GllA

Volume X, No. IX

ZACK D. CRAVEY, Editor

JOE L. STEARNS, Manag ing Editor

PAT COOPER, Associate Editor

BEVERLY WALLACE BURCH, Feature Editor

Publ is hed monthly by T h e Geor gia Depart me n t of N at ura l Resources. 422 St ate Cap ito l, A tla n ta , Ga., in t he in teres t of Geor gia wildlife and f or fis hermen. h u nters, nat u re love r s an d conser vatio n of n atura l resou r ces. Year ly Subs cript ions to U nited States a nd its posses-
s ion s, a nd Canad a, 75 cen ts; other cou ntries, $1.50. Su bscri bers mus t noti fy us o f G,ha ngc of a ddress fou r weeks in a dv a n ce of nex t publication d a te, g iv ing bot h o ld a nd n ew a d dress. Conten ts of t his maga zine must not be re pr inted w ithout permissio n . Th is m agazine fs g lad
to receive p hotos, dra wings , s t ories and artic les dealin g with ou tdoor subj ects. bu t cann o t gua ra ntee r eturn of u nso licited contributions no r insure a gainst t heir Joss. Contribution s n ot accompa nied by s uffic ient postage wi ll not be retu r ned. Ente r ed as 2 nd class ma tter August 31, 1940, a t the post office at Atla nta, under the A ct of March 3, 1879.


BRINGS OUT ~~TALL TALES" AMONG SOLDIERS

In the libraries of the vario us camps and Forts, fishin g and hunting magazines are most popular. In a ver y brief period of time these magazines are wo rn o ut. The boys spenCI their time-off reading them and thinking of the da y when they will get back into action on an outdoor fr ont.
Commissioner Zack Cravey, of the Department uf Natural Reso urces, wan ts no out-of-state soldier to be deprived of his fishin g ri ghts. A new order permits these lads to secure resident licenses, and hundreds of soldiers have taken ad va ntage of this concession. Many of them fish onl y once or twice but they like to keep their license as a souvenir.
It has been said, "Allah does not deduct from the allotted time of man, those hours spent fishing."

Some of the South Georgia boys were talking fish and how to catch ' em recently d uring ti me-off at Fort McPherson . It is a favorite subject among the sportsmen in Uncle Sam' s Army. Joe H. Hall, of Macon, (in rear) says, " Honest, fellows, it wa s this long !' And shows the length with his hands. Albert Sherret, of Fitzgerald (left with rod and reel) knows a fish tale when he hears one. Will C. Salter,
(right) says, " Aw, you' re kiddin' ."
H UNDREDS of G!!orgia boys have exchanged hunting togs fo r Army uniforms and fishing poles for rifles. It seems their chosen form of spo rts will have to wait- yes, sir- wait until the Rising Sun has set and until Rome and Berlin feel the sting of the Allies fighting forces. The boy~ have a serious job to do . A job that must be done before the tranquility of a day on the lake or in the field can be included in the program of America's freedom.
So fishing and hunting takes a hack seat for these lads, at least for the duration plus six months. But the tall tales of more peaceful days will never stop.
The Georgians at Fort McPherson are thankful they are fishermen and hunters. All of them agree these sports have furni shed them with adva ntages that come in hand y. Fishing, they claim, calms the nerves. It also teaches patience and then too, there is the physical exercise and sunshine and fresh air and just dozens of natural advantages.
Hunting makes strong legs. It makes sharpshooters. Builds muscles and is clean and wholesome. All of the Georgia hunters, now working for Uncle Sam, are impatient to flush a covey of Japs. The only disadvantage the boys will have is the absence of a hunting dog. But anyway, hunting dogs are unable to smell rats.
T housands of Georgians at home will continue to fish . This year should b e one of the biggest sea sons for fishing as a great number of experts will be absent and performing duties in the armed services and it is natural that more fish will be available. And too, the Division of Wildlife released almost a m illion and a half fish last year.
OUTDOOR GEORGIA March 1942

Hugh L Turner, of Fitzg e rald, who is station ed at Fort McPherson, pulls some of the ki nks out of his reel. It may be a long time before he gets back to his favorite fishing holes down home but he will be ready . He is ~eeping his eq uipme nt in shape . You can never tell when an opportunity might pop up for some fishing. Man y soldie rs spend their time off
on Georgia rivers, lakes and streams.
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Fate Suffered by 's Chestnut Growth

By MILLEDGE MURPHY, JR., Entomologist
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY
TITTLE over twenty years ago the chestnut forests ~
J L Ge.orgia's mountainous co unties were attacked h
chestnut blight, a disease which caused the destruction all chestnut forests in the eastern United States. A large number . of dea ~ che~tnu~ forest has b~en reseeded with white pme. White pme IS a fast growmg tree which is well adapted to G~orgia's r~wuntain?us counties. White pine grows faster m Georgia than m any of the other white pine prod ucing areas, havin g been known to grow fi ve feet in one year. At the present time in eighteen. North Georgia counties there are approximately 300,{)()() acres of valuable white pine and this acreage is increas. ing more and more each year.
This new white pine fores t is threatened by a disease known as White Pine Blister Rust. Blister rust, like chestnut blight, was introduced into the United States from a foreign country. White p ~ne blister rust has one great difference from chestnut b'light and this dif. ference is, we have a practical method of fighting the disease under forest conditions.
White pine blister rust is one of those unique diseases that requires two different plants to exist. A white pine tree infected with .blister rust may die but unless the al ternate host is nearby, the disease cannot spread to adjoining white pine trees. The alternate host in blister r111t is the ribes plant famil y which includes both gooseberries and currants. In the spring the cankers which form on the diseased white pine tree, throws off millions of tiny spores or seeds. These spores are blown by the wind and if they fall upon the gooseberry or currant bush they grow into tin y yellowish spots on the under sides of the leaves. In the latter part of the summer, these yellowish spots turn dark and in turn give off millions of tiny spores which are capable of infecting white pines. The disease cannot spread from pines to pines or from gooseberries to gooseberries, but must go from pines to gooseberries and from gooseberries to pines.

This strange habit of the disease having to

fr~vre

on the

two different protection of

plants makes it possible valuable white pine for-

est through the eradication of all gooseberries

and currants adjoining the forest. In Georgia,

wild gooseberries are of no value and the

cultivated gooseberries and currants are so

few in number that their value is negligible

when compared with the white pine forest.

Realizing the importance of white pine to North Geor-

~iiaa

and the danger Departmen t of

of white pine blister rust, the GeorEntomology working in connection

0ith the United States Department of Agriculture began
~n 1935 a program of fighting white pine blister rust

di ease. Since the ~eginning of that program over 6,000,-

000 wild and cultivated gooseberry and currant bushes

have been dug an d destroyed in Georgia's mountainous

counties. The program is being carried on in a systema-

tic maimer. Surveys are made in the white pine growing

areas to determine if the white pine growth warrants

protection. Eradication crews then dig the gooseberries

and currants preventin g any possible infection of white

pine blister r ust disease.

Georgia's white pine blister rust control program is a far reaching one and can be called an in surance policy lor Georgia's white pine fo rest. Blister rust disease does not occur in Georgia now, but is found in the adjoining mountainous states of Tennessee and North Carolina, and if control measures were stopped, it would be on ly a few )ears before the disease wou ld be in Georgia and the 1aluable timber money crop wo uld be a thing of the past.

Walter Dyal, Director of State Forestry, h as checked carefully in to the Blister Ru st evil. The Division of For-
try is prepared to fight thi s enemy of white pine whereever it appears in Georgia.

Georgi a;1s desirin g additional information on White Pine Blister Rust, or other diseases of plants and insect
pest , should write to The State Entomologist, State Capitol, Atlanta.

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J - In the North Georgia
woods is this beautiful stand of white pine. Blister Rust has not entered these woods and protective methods will keep it out permanently. 2 - Teams are used to skid the valuable white pine logs down the mountain tra ils. Pine lumber has taken its place among the more important materials in National Defense.

3 - This huge log might have died when only a sapling if Blister Rust had been allowed to get to it. 4 - Gooseberry bushes ore dug_ up and then placed off the ground. In a short while the bushes are dead and white pine trees are safe. These will do no damage. 5 - Here is a white pine tree dying . There is no cure. Note how Blister Rust is girdling the tree.
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State Starts
~~Fawn Nursery';

J - This is the best method lor transporting quail. Sections prevent injury and allow necessary freedom of movement. 2 - A beautiful sight, this P0 ."
1 of Chukars in the field . 3 - Here is a shot of land beautified at the G~orga
Experiment Station at Tilton. 4 - Fish traps, such as this, not only are diego but also waste . These trapped fish spoiled. 5 - Cabins in state parks at P~ne Mountain and Vogel provide inside warmth and comfort such as this ~m~g cool spring or fall days. 6 - Sunny South? This picture was taken '~ tA;.

rear of the State Capitol during the recent heavy snow that blankete 'k ?"

lanta Here

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- Many sportsmen have asked, the answer. 8 -Who said Tom

" What Wade,

does a Caribou look Columbus spo rtsman,

J,coen. ,1

catch 'em. Nice fishing, Thomas!

l- In each case aboard the truck just arriving at
~ 1 flate game farm from South Georgia is a
/" It was an all night trip and it is not yet ylight. 2 - Well-greetings and welcome/ This
~th end of the line here, fellow . You will leave
t ur box in a few moments. 3 - Game farm worlcrs unload the cases into the corral.

Deer, one of Georgia's most im portant game animals, will be propagated and cared for under the best possible conditions at the Di vision of Wildlife's State Game Farm.
Commissioner of Iatural Resources Zack D. Cravey instructed Ralph Buice, Superintendent of the Game Farm, to carry on extensive study and survey before opening the "fawn nursery." The reports revealed that Mississippi, leader in the field of deer propagation, has been highly successful in the work. The methods of care and the correct diets, habits and working plans were studied at length.
The deer at the game farm have been placed in .a corral. The animals have a large range and food to their liking has been procured for them.
The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service gave the Division of Wildlife a start in this experimental program by presenting 15 splendid, healthy deer. Included in the herd are two bucks, one an eight-pointer.
As these deer multiply "seed stock" will he removed
to understocked and protected
areas. Commissioner Cravey
hopes eventually to have
enough deer to insure every suitable county in Georgia with ample stock.
When surplus stock of deer reach the age where they can care for themselves and are ready to be introduced to their new homes, the Di vision of Wildlife estimates their value will be $50 each. By the development of this "fawn nursery" Georgia has insurance for future deer stock for years to come.

OUTDOOR GEORGIA March 1942

4-You can come out now. In this new home you will get the best of care. Plenty of fresh water and good food . 5 - This is the last step before release. It is a check-over by Superintendent of the Game Farm Ralph Buice and Harry Christian. All of the deer were in perfect trim. 6 - Pienty of room to run and good rich land supplying necessary vegetation. Nothing to worry about now!
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Service Men, Teachers,
Students Invited to
See Specimens
GEORGIA"S state museum, one of the fin est of its type in America, is open dail y to the public. Di splays representing almost every natural reso urce entertain hundreds of visitors each " eek. With the exception of the African collection, exhibits pertain so lely to Geor gia. The purpose of the slate museum , just recentl y revised. is to acquaint visitors "ith the striking abundance of Georgia's resources.
Dioramas, which created such a sen sation at the New York World's Fai1, vividly depict industries, historical sites, and State Park scenes from all sections of the state. These are con structed on an exag uerated perspective so that often a great land area is presented in miniature, with a depth and reality that is fascinating. The forestry exhibit is well assembled and cleverly displayed to show both the wood pattern and the bark of many val- uable and u seful trees.
The state museum , which 11 as organized. a number of years ago, was made possible by the donati ons of man y generous individuals. lt has grown until now it occupies the corrido rs of the entire fourth fl oo r of th e State Capitol building. The Department' of latural Reso urces invites sch ool g roups fr om all over the stale to visit the museum, and such a collecti on is wo rth much to students. A " uide pamplet, now in the process of preparation , ~- ill an s11 er qu estions and suppl'y inform ati on about th e va rious exhibits. This booklet will be espec iall y valuable to sch ool teachers pi ann in g a tour of the museum , becau se it will acquaint th em with th e fl oor-plan and data concerning the cases.

King of the Jungle! He is 250 pounds of destruction and animal stren9th, this lion in the African display. Note arrows by lion . Natives hunt /ions with arrows. How would you like to walk up on a growli ng lion a few feet away and on ly your bow and arrow lor protection and safety?

You will see many types of animals resembling in one detail or another our Georgia deer . All are members of the deer family. Beautifully tanned hides are on display in the Department of Natural Resources display cases. Plan to spend an afternoon at the state museum in the near future .

J - Owls, owls, all kinds of owls. The snowy white owl and the hoot ow/ and likely more owls than you ever dreamed were in Georgia are awaiting your visit. 2 - The . Beaver gets special attention. Georgia laws prevent de-
struction , or trapping, of Beave rs . Under fhe existing law, it is even unlaw
ful to molest the Beave r. The Beaver, once almost extinct, now is winning its fight for a place in the world and Georgia is do ing its part to help this valuable animal survive- and flourish . 3 - The fine specimens are from A.lrica. Their wicked lookin g horns a re about all that keep th ese animals /rom /ool ing like a pony . This case has daggers used by natives and dozens of aliter

interesting articles ycu will enjoy seeing . 4 - He re is one of the best . snake displa ys in A merica. The big fellow in front is a Diamond-back Rattlesnake. lust bock ol his tail is the Timber Rattler. On the log is a Moccasin. The one that loo ks like a big worm on th e left is the dangerous coral snake . A visit to th is cose will help you identify the poison snake and the harmless snake . There is nothing to worry about . All of them are stu/fed. Charles Wharton, state ta xiderm ist, assembled this swell collection . 5 - Squirre/s . Yes sir, the grey squirrel, the lox squirrel looking Very much alive . Three or four hours will ;ust lly by-if you are observing th e specimens in the state museum . It is open six day s a week. It is free , too .

Wildlife, Minerals, Birds
And Forest Displays
Prove Popular
Approximately half of the entire museum is devoted to Geo rg ia rocks and minerals, and the collecti on is sa id to be one of the most representative. Among the hundreds of examples _are striking specimens such as go ld nuggets fr om the fam ous placer min es o f north Geo rg ia , a meteo rite which fell in a farm er's co tton fi eld , ancient fossil strata. and a splen did co llecti on o f semi-precious stones.
The wildlife exhibits in the state museum offe r everything from . a snake to a rhinoceros. Georgia's abundant bird life, numbering nearly 350 species, is amply represented. In several instances birds are ar ranged with nests, eggs, and in beautiful habitat groups. Among the small native wild animals a pair of sinewy bobcats quar r e l over a de.ad pheasan t. About six teen species of snakes are realistically prepared and displayed so that poisonous kinds may be easily contrasted with the harmless.
The recen t addition of fo rm er Con gressman B. T. Castellaw's magnifi cent collecti on of African animals and curi os adds an unu sual and con trasting touch to our "stri ctl y Geo rgia " museum. Few indeed have seen a narwhal 's tu sk, a poiso n da rt, or a Chinese opium pipe.
Special emphasis is placed on the part Georgia's reso urces pia) in our indu strali zed system. Several eases ex hi bit the stone or min eral with the completed ma terial hes id e it in other wo rds, the raw materia l and the fini shed product.
The Depa rtment of Na tural Re ources welco mes men of ou r a nn ed se rvices to the museum . Ther e a re fe11 hetter 11 a) s to spen d. an a ftern oo n fo r educati onal and in struc-ti ve purposes.

Dismal, Endless Caves landCanyon State Par~

Offer Thrills, Test Cour an~ S~ill of Expedition

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D OW through the ages ature sent water trickl' and meandering its way into the crevices of a h lllg
ridge along the shoulder of Georgia's Lookout Moun::!e
section in what is now Cloudland Canyon State Parl
This water disolved limestone and carried it away. This
process by the hand of ature slowly cut into the heart of this mystery ridge endless ~averns, t~visted corridon, grotesque figures carved 111 wild profusiOn by time and
water. ature's work started in the Paleozoic Age and con-
tinues today. Until less than 100 years ago this land of mystery was ature's own secret. The late John L. Caae,
some years ago threw the first light of day into this
inky blackness. Better still Case ventured into the cave1111 and probably was so impressed with the danger and vut
emptiness of this subterranean wilderness that he shared
his discovery with no one. Years went by and one da,
John Case told Tom McCauley about the caves. McCao-
ley spent days locating the entrance which by this time
was covered with vines. Thus Case Caverns were dis-
covered and re-discovered.

Captain Garland Peyton, State Director of Mines, Mining and Geology' led an expedition made up of Luke Woodall, Department of Natural Resources engineer, Tom Ham, an
Atlanta Journal newspaperman, Tom Me-
Cauley, a guide and two of his friends, Jean
~

J - There seems to be some doubt as to whether the boys want fo fO

down in this cave now that they have had a look at tho tiny entra-

" Cave-man " McCauley, draped with ropes, assures the party that it il

safe, thus qualifying himself as one of the most convincing orators it

the state . The intrepid gang left to right are: Captain Garland Peyfol,

Director of Mines; Tom Ham, (leaning over tightening boots} Atlanla

Journal feature writer and photographer, Luke Woodall, Department tl

Natural Resources engineer; Tom McCauley, Jean Watson and Pellll'f

Buffington. 2 - This is the way in . A swell way to cure that "tired tl

living feeling ." Tom McCauley is going down the ladder having alrea4r

sent Penny or so back

Buffington down, perhaps as in the caverns Luke Woodall

a decoy. 3 halts to take

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thr" .... notes. : :

McCauley is in the background . Note large stalagmites rn foregtOw6it
.r 4 - Penn y Buffington (left) and Jean Watson follow Tom Ham lis

shirt), who looks as if he might have just seen a Chinaman sfict

head up from a hole, down a narrow passage that might lead anr::;:1As Tom said, " I look like a cornered wolf." 5 - Jean Watson h

Watson and Penny Buffington, and a maga-

zine editor and photographer into the caverns

recently in the interest of Geology and ex-

ploration.

Getting to the caves is about the easiest part of the

trip. It is just a short walk 9f three or four miles over

cobblestones, thro ugh burrs, across gulleys, up long ex-

tending hills, through weeds wajst-high and then a short

climb up a small mountain side and presto-you are at

gthaezinengtraanndcet.raCilomblpaazsinsegs,w~rlol

ad maps, bloodhounds not get you .any place:

star You

need Tom McCauley to gmde yo u. There IS no substitute.

The entrance is a small hole affair, undoubtedly contructed for use by some of the Singer Midgets but if you
can crawl on hands and knees, you can make it. A few feet of crawling and you look straight down. It is like looking down the elevator shaft of an eight-stor y build-
ing only much worse. A ladder helps you down about 30 feet and from then on, you are on your own. You swap the ladder for a rope and yo u feel like a monkey on a string as you lower yourself hand over hand for what seems hours. Down yo u go through holes which make you feel like a cork in a bottle.

You realize during this rope act that the same method will he necessary to get out. It
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lig ht on the boys while they look around in a small room. Jean is

rtocly to make tracks for Mother Earth ' s surface . Some fun, eh kid? . . .

6-Bats- lots o! them. Here is one resting as comfortably as bats can .

The.y hang ups1de down. That thing looking like a leg is his wing. Oc-

co!lonally one wo uld play tag with the boys who certainly were in no

mood to pla y games-es pe cially with bats. They say these things have

Ieeth and bite like nobody' s business. As far as we were concerned the

hots were unmolested . 7 - GeHing out is a cinch . Buffington is in the

foreground, McCauley just ahead and Captain Peyton is up there be~e en two narrow limestone walls hanging on for dear life . This straight

:P:.~sdh~oett~sihnogwsouytouis

how it looks a snap. All

from the bottom that is necessary

of is

the for

entrance As you to be a

~rmenbgltnha t1oofn

acrobat, Hercules.

tight-rope walker, 8 - Now here we

Alp climber and are approxi;,ately

have the five miles

ro~ Chin a straight down . A spring of water under this limestone for-

~atlon refreshes the party. A swell place to spend a quiet evening O r

1 you don't have a guide - a swell place to spend Eternity.

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Here's Why a Good Dog Is So Necessary For Quail Hunting

J- It was ;ust before close of quail seaso n, and with only
a couple of hours to spare from his store duties, Mar shall Bcndy of Chickamauga called his pointer, Charlie, and headed for the 0 . C. Jolly Farm nearby. If birds ore anywhe re about, Charlie can always find them, SO il didn 't take him long to get on point.
2 - A perfect shot, Hunter Bandy! And that's the w~y il
went until Charlie flushed a covey which alrea dy had been reduced to five birds by other hunters. A good conservationist, Bandy followed the appeal Director lack D. Cravey made all season and refused to reduce the covey still more.

3 - As fast as the birds were brought dow n, Charlie brought them in to his appreciative master. Their two-ho~r

holiday pockets.

up all too Still four

soon, under

Bandy counted the limit but h

eII.wbaisrdssatinislhil~l

. . . except that he'd left a crippled quail somewhere rn the woods and no hunter likes the thought o f leaving 11

bird to such agonizing fate.

4 - " But wait, Pal," Charlie all but vocalized as he :;:: off on a mission of his own. He reme mbered the rrd
:ic/r where that wounded Bobwhite went into the woods
in a couple of "minutes he was back, with a look "'Jt<l
must have meant, " here's your wounded bird .11 So en a perfect afternoon for hunter and dog alike and-or; March 1- the end of a good hunting season . (Photos J8ll
in by Ranger J . M. Griffith of Rossville).

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OUTDOOR GEORG I A M"rch

TH IS MONTH'S RECIPE

Conservation Please

Here is one which explairs wh y

fi shermen enj oy their sport. In addi-

tion to the spo rt of the catch--wh at

dodoirnn eGre othr igsiao' ~n e

would March

make ! Outspecial is

temptin g. Try 1t.

Scale a fish, preferabl y about 2 to 6 pou nds, washing and dr ying it

arefully. After rubbin g inside and

c~uretadw-ictrhu

.msablt

, stuff the dressing,

in the

s id es n sew

with op-

eni ng up.

.

Gashes abo ut two-In ches apart

should each receive a small strip of

salt fat po t:k. Salt and pepper and

place in hot oven with out water.

When fish begin s to brow n, add hot wa ter and butter, basting ever y 12

min utes. After bakin g until done remove to

hot platter, drawing out strings and bacon strips. Garnish with lemon well

covered with chopped parsley; serve

while hot.

Wil df1ower Show
Op ens in April
Georgia wildfl owers will be brough t to public attention durin g April and ovem ber. Eugene Sch ofi eld Heath, president of the Geo rgia Botanica l society announced that landscap ists, 4-H groups, forestr y departments and other associati ons had pledged their coo perati on.
A booklet, available to the public, has been prepared ex plainin g assemblage of local plants, public grounds landsca ping and identificati on plots.

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(1) What Georgia animal is related to the kangeroo of Australia?
a. the jumping mouse b. the oppossum c. the rabbit d. the muskrat e . the wolvering
(2 ) Squirrels become infested in the spring with a larval worm known in many sections as
a. coyotes b. grubs c. skinner_s d . wolves
(3) Which of the following groups were introduced into the United States?
o. cardinal and catbird b. goldfinch and starling c. tree sparrow and wood duck d . anhingha and cuckoo
(4) Malaria mosquito wigglers may be identified because they
a . lie perpendicular to the surface of the water
b. are striped c. have big heads d. lie parallel with the surface at
night
(5) Without looking at the February issue; how do you spell the name of the little South American animal. One of the spellings below is correct.
a. coati-monday b. coti-mundy c. caoti-mundi d. kooti-mundie e . coati-mundi
(6) Three of the five . listed below are important sources of food for wildlife. Which are they?
a . sedge-grass b. sumac c. wax-myrtle d . lespedezas e . sudan grass
(7) A clutch of quail eggs generally contains about
a. 5 b. 14 c. 21 d. 35
(8 ) Big rainbow trout depe nd upon what for their principal food?
a . insects b. frogs c. lizards d. larva and minnows e. roya l coachmen or grey duns.
(ANSWERS ON PAG E 17)

OUTDOOR GEORGIA March 1942

@I jThe MAIL BOX I

Mr. J. L. Stearns,
Managi ng Ed itor Outd oor Georgia, Atlanta, Geo rgia.

March 12, 1942

My dear Si r:

Thanks imm ensely for th e in terestin g a nd a ttra cti ve back numbers of " Outd oor Geo rgia." 1 have r ead th em with great care and am impressed wi th the well il lu strated and edi ted publica ti on and how we ll yo u are sellin g Geo rgia and its advantages to the sport sman.
I was in P enn sy lva nia last Dece mber, dee r and pheasant huntin g, at th e hunti ng lodge of Dr. a nd Mrs. Gail Kahl e at Vowin ckel, P enn sylvan ia, a nd he wa s tellin g me of takin g their dogs to Georgia to hunt an d how fi ne the hunting wa , and as I was anxious to know more of yo ur wil d life huntin g advantages, I a ked for some back iss ues of yo ur Magazine and sent in my check for it to be a regular visitor to my home.
So mehow I never associated Georgia a s a grea t Gam e Sta te, like Colorad o, Utah , Wyoming, P ennsylvania or Michi gan, for big a~d .~mall game, un ti l I read " Outdoor Geo rg1a.
l wi ll look forward to its monthly visit. Congratul ati ons on your splendid and most in terestin g pub lica tio n for sportsmen. I pla n a huntin g trip to Georgia. Again, th anks.
Yours very trul y,
P. A. KAHLE.

916 Short Street, Prince ton, Indiana March 7, 1942.
Mr. Zack Cravey, Editor Ou tdoor Georgia, At lanta , Georgia.
Dea r Mr: Cravey :
1 a m writin g thi s letter to thank yo u for makin g my vacati on in Macon County, Georgia a success. My wi fe and I never enj oyed two weeks as mu ch in our li ves. We fee l it was money well spent.
We were treated wond erfully by Mr. Sieb J ones a nd family. I th ink your stat e has in Mr. J ones a good conservation o ffi ce r. He is trying to ed ucate his peopl e to prot ect wi ldlife. Hi work is to promot e more game and less destru cti on.
\Vh en we ha ve another vaca ti on, we want to _pend it in yo ur state.
Yours sin cerely,
RAYMO D TAYLOR.

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Dismal, Endless Caves at Cloudland Canyon State Park

(Continued from Page II)
is not at all comforting. Ages and a few white hairs later your feet hit an uncertain, slippery bottom. That small glare of daylight far above you is where you came in and the place you hope to see later.
Beads of perspiration stand out on your brow and glisten in the glare of flashlights. These beads stay there because the humidity does not let them dry. You feel damp. There is plenty of fresh air all through the caverns. The party moves forward. You are at least 80 feet underground.
A flashlight finds a giant stalactite, hanging menacingly above you like a long brown dagger. Hundreds of smaller stalactites are visable hither and yon. A light settles on a stalacite that has hair on its sharp end. "That is the first stalacite I have ever seen with hair on it," a member of the party declares. "My hair! I didn't duck," says Engineer Woodall who is marked down as the first casualty.
Direction means nothing. You turn right, now sharply to the left. First you crawl and then you walk and crawl again. Huge limestone rocks lean forward to block your way and you wiggle along, squeezing your body under its edges. A mile of this, then two miles and another mile until you figure you must he at least three perhaps four miles from your starting point.
Abruptly you enter a small room and moments later you enter a huge auditorium. Streams roll across your path and on into the inky darkness. A large pool lies at the bottom of another huge room. Perhaps there are blind fish in it or maybe salamanders. Its waters are icy cold. A spring is caught between two boulders and offers a drink of cool water.
Occasionally the flap of wings dart dangerously near your head. Bats! And these bats are not accustomed to company. Small creatures hanging upside down here, there and everywhere. They remind you of rats. It is said bats have sharp teeth and are capable of sinking them deep. You wonder-what do these bats eat?
By a rivulet you note mink tracks. You may he 1,000 feet down or 300 feet down. We had

no way of knowing. How on earth did a mink get way down here? Your light catches a cricket. There is no explanation for him. No vegetation is found. With each step you are walking in layers of dust never before touched by the human foot. The height in some places is measured by inches and a few feet away you look up as far as your flashlight can reach and there is no ceiling. Each limestone hallway has paths leading off into goodness knows where.
Captain Peyton gathers specimens. Engineer Woodall makes notes. The rest stare about, eyes bulging. A few minutes rest and the cool, damp air sends shivers up and down your aching back. Nearly four hours have passed and you have only started. There is no end. Flashlights locate an overhanging formation weighing perhaps 50 tons and jutting out into space. What a cruel prank nature could play on these men who would violate her cavern privacy. What stark madness would overtake these men far out of reach of helping hands, if that rock should crash. Great shades of Floyd Collins!
Cave-man McCauley is the most important man in the world to you when you are down in the bowels of this mountain. For only he can deliver you hack to civilization. The going is dangerous and hard all the way. Nearly five hours after you slide down the rope, you now are ready to pull yourself' out. Your body already throbs with pain and your legs and arms twitch. H you only had the strength of Samson-but you haven't.
Inch by inch you drag straight up jagged walls, back through those narrow holes. You halt frequently, gasping, panting and exerting that last ounce of energy. You can not afford to turn loose that rope unless you want St. Peter to leave the key under the mat with your name on iL Eventually you reach the exit. It was no harder thaD run ning up a eleven mile hill with an anvil under each arm.
No pictures were taken of the disheveled gang coming out. No one was strong enough to hold up a camera. And too, most of the boys were dressing scratches, cuts and bruises. It is good to see trees and grass again. You feel no worse than if you had spent a couple of hours in a concrete mixer. Try it sometimes!

~UNNINGDAM LEAVES AS 4-D LEADER

G. V. Cunningham, for many years the state 4-H club leader whose service to the young people of Georgia has been of inestimable value, has resigned his position.
This loss is a heartfelt blow to all who knew him and to those thousands who took an interest in the work of his organization.
Cunningham served faithfully, and won the respect of all Georgia. His work has been placed in good strong

hands, but we will miss the human touch and that good-natured smile, the endless patience and inexhaustable energy with which G. V. Cun ningham is so richly endowed.
By his untiring efforts Mr. Cun ningham arranged camps for boys and girls. He started them into home industry. He changed indifferent young lads into toiling workers who reaped great benefits as a result of their guided labors.
Cunningham leaves the 4-H with

peace of mind and confidence that he did his job well. He can look back over years filled with the friendship of these young people. Hundreds of his workers blossomed from redcheeked boys and girls into adult hood and are better men and women as a result of their interest in 4-H activities. Mr. Cunningham, all Georgia salutes you and prays God more of vour kind will be with us as our state marches down through the years.

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OUTDOOR GEORGIA March 194Z

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Banana sta lk and bud held by

Ranger Jones

Bananas wit~ breakfast cereal is alwa ys in good taste. \nd if the bananas grow in yo ur backyard , it certainly offers an added convenience. Wildlife Ranger James H. )one . of Tifto n, has not one-but two banana trees in hi backyard.
Each season Ranger Jones gets a good supply of bananas from his two tre~s . He says his bananas compare favorably with those you purchase at your favorite market.
Jones' banan a trees are not the on ly ones producing and thriving in Georgia.. There must be several dozen. The presence of these trees and the fruit produced is just another splend id example of Georgia's rich soil.
Georgia does not attempt to compete with banana trees in the tropical climate zones hut we are doing the job.
Our forefathers viewed bananas with t'nuch sce pticism. The fruit 11 as more of a curio. Toda y boatloads are imported an nually . Severa l years ago the suppl y exceeded the deman d an d a boatload was auctioned off in Baltimore. One ma n purchased a wagon-load for lSc.

Edna Akin and Ann Jones stand beside their favorite banana tree

( 1 ) At the base of a toll popular tree rests snow-white eggs of a
Canada Goose in a nest of . fluffy down, plucked from the mother goose 1s breast. This soft material is used commercially in stuffing sleep ing bags. This nest location e nables the brooding parent to keep a wide lookout on all sides. The bank overlooking the lake provides a quick toke-off in case of on unwelcome approach by a bob-cot or stray dog bent on Goose for dinner. Normally geese have from 6 to 9 eggs.
(2) Here Mrs. goose attends her maternal duties after a breakfast on the lake -shore. Canada Geese feed largely on groins, roofs, and ber ries, being especially fond of eel-grass which abounds in coastal marshes. A curious trait of these tasty game birds is the fact that they swallow
quantities of sand to aid in diges tion.
(3) Papa goose is the defending champion of this family and ready to p rotect his male at all costs, and when aroused he is a capable antagonist . His flail ing wings and powerful beak have spelled retreat to many a venturesome animal. Shortly after their brood is hatched the parents experience a molt which would leave them practically helpless were it not for their great hiding and swimming skill. (Pictures courtesy of U. S. Soil Conservation Service. )

By BEVERLY WALLACE BURCH
I T WAS mess time at Turner Field near Alban y and as much as they appreciated that, two young RAF cadets eagerly left their table to discuss with an OuTDOOR GEORGIA reporter their favorite sport and hobbyhunting.
Recentl y arrived in this countr y, the cadets-A. ]. McCall, from London and T . K. Halli well, from Man chester- had no ti me for huntin g. But they enjo yed talking of past exploits and co mparing the sport in the two countries.
"The great difference is that over here it seems that anyone who wants to can hunt, whether h e's a poor farmer, workingman or wealthy sportsman," declared Cadet McCall. " But hack home, it's almost altogether a gentleman's sport, except perhaps for a hit of rabbit shooting."
"That's because of the scarcity of land in E ngland and the abundance of it here," interpolated yo ung Halliwell. "Back home most of the shoo ting is done in Scot land where the wealth y gentlemen are apt to have a large preserve and often takes a party of 30 or 40 hun ters for a week-end shoot. "
On those large shoots, wen t on Halliwell , beaters instead of dogs flu sh the birds. Armed with sticks, they scour the field and woods fannin g the birds .from bushes and hide-outs. Close behind the beaters, who usually are farmers on the place, come the sportsmen read y to " take a shot" when the birds rise.
Ostar~1dss,osmuecthimaess Getoh~egiahudneeterrshunttaekres
do, and leave it up to beater and bird for the latter to get in gun r ange.
P heasants and grouse are the fa vo r ite game birds in the British I sles and an annual hu nting license costs three guineas or about $15 in Ameri can money.
" But tell abou t the wood pigeon" laughed Halliwell proddin g his countryman.
"Oh, that is a very marvelo u s bird," exclaimed the ruddyfaced young flyer . " H e's tough and bio feathers ar e so m iraculously inter laced that the pellet bounces off his brea st. It's a test of good marksmanship to bring down the wood pigeon for he must he hit in the h ead or wing.
"And he's a very clever fellow, this wood pigeon," the Cadet continued. "Sometimes when he's hit, he pretends to be dead and fa lls to the ground onl y to rise quickly and fl y away when the hunter lowers his gun. It is amusing to see hunters try to

outwit this cagy bird. Sometimes they cover their faces with m uffiers or even black them with a special blacking soap or soot and co ver their hands with dark-cotton gloves.
o fl esh, bright buttons or gay colors can be displayed for the wood pigeo n has a sharp eye and is extremely wary."
"The wa y we shoot him," Halliwell took up the con. ve rsation , " is for hunter s to encircle the territory and train their guns in the air. At a given signal all must fire at once for if an y one person lets go ahead of the others, back into the woods the pigeons go and no num. her of beaters can get them out again. "
Hunting badger, "a thin animal about the size of a rabbit and with very strong, sharp teeth" also requires skill on the part of the hunter, McCall said.
" Badge rs have a habit of biting the hunter 's leg or ankle and refu sin g to release it until he crushes a bone," he went on. "So hunters generally place a thick layer of cinders over their boots or leggin gs, then cover them with <1 coarse stocking. If a badger attacks and closes hi strong jaws on th e cinders, he thinks he has crushed a bone and lets go the leg."
The Britishers had never made the acquaintance of Bobwhite quail, umber On e on almost an y Georgia hunter 's li st. But a description of the game bird and realization that Albany is his accepted capital made them long for a "chawnce at the fellow." Sporting, eh wot!

Si un over kitchen in cafe at La-
Faye~te reads- "Stay out of kitchen.
The cook is bashful."
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So meone o nce said, if yo u get up
a in the mo rning with smile and si ng
and whistle throug h your matutinal ablution (snooty for morning bath I then yo ur day would be pleasant.
I tried that recipe recently but while shaving I looked a bit closer and there I saw a grey hair. Of course the singing and whistling was over for the day. Here a new step in lif~ was taken . . . and painlessly u ntil discovery.
Carefully I took tweezers and pulled out this silver hair. For two minutes I stared at it. Pictures of m y life fro m childhood to the present day flicke red in rev iew throu gh m y mind. I remembered how amazed -] was when I lost m y squeaky voice and woke up one morning with a r olling bass. It too , was painlessly done and welco med. There, overnight was a lad who departed a tenor for vo cal eq ui pment that might even take a fli ng at " Asleep in the Deep." From adolescence to near-manhood was a great step. It was with pride that I would frame m yself before a mirror and try out that new voice and it was wo nderful. But what can I do with a silver hair but be impressed that youth and I are r eaching th e parting road.
It's like going to yo ur favorite quail field and findin g no birds. You could do something about that but there isn't much you can do abo ut the other.
Perhaps it was a stray hair th at had perished fr om a n undern ouri shed root, ] tried to co nsole myself. In a few days another one was presenl. T. he tweezer r esc ued me aoba in ..b ut It. is im possible to keep up th at pace With the tweezer. All going o ut and none co ming in . At that pace I soo n would own a h ea d as slick as an oni on .
At first the shock was immense. After all, no man likes to ad mit he is slowing down.
OUTDOOR GEORGIA March 1942

The slowing down feeling isn 't there hut when silver hairs come along, it is silent evidence. That saying, "Life Begins at 40," m eant little a few years ago b efor e the grey hair age hut now I can at least look forward. That first grey hair leaves you with a totally helpless feeling. It takes a few days to recover. Then t oo, there is the memory of the hoy in high school who had grey hair. There is the insistence that grey hair carries a certain amount of dignity hut who wouldn't trade a share of dignity for a new crop of h air ?
Yo u, at first, th ink life is closin~ in but no- it is the men wh o reach 40 and up th at really get the bi ggest ki ck o ut of fi shing and hunti ng a nd o utdoo r life. Young or old , th ose things count, and count plenty. W hen man r eaches up and plucks that first silver hair, among his first tho ughts is a quiet little home in th e co untry with chickens 11nd a good d og. And a stream full of fi sh not too fa r awa y. And a ga rd en and fl owers and pe~ haps the cha nce to write that book he always had in mind. W onder how much a country home costs ?
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Ra y Spears, of Carnesville, is convinced everything has a place in th e world. And he is certain the place for gold fi sh is in a bowl on a table. Ray pulled up a bucket of water from his well r ecentl y and it co ntain ed four large goldfish. lf somebody is using Ra y's well for a goldfish bowl -- it must stop.
Bobby Waller, Jr., of Sparta, has two scree<.:h ow ls for pels. T he owl s

Answers Conservation Please

(I) B (2) D (3) B (4) D

(5) E (6) B, D, E (7) B (8) D

will perch on Bobby's shoulders and perform certain tricks at his command.
G. A. Turner, of Roberta, didn 't like the way his chickens vanished during the night so he set a steel trap in hi s henhouse. The result was a 15 pound wildcat, two and a half feet long. The wildcat will visit the henhouse no more.
You can get the burrs off your d og b y using plent y of harmless o il on him. Th e oil will ca use the burrs to lose g rip and a co mb will get them off . . . A hunter once remarkedMy wife is an angel- always up in the a ir, al wa ys ha rping about some- thing and never has anything to wear. . . . Minks are vicious fi ghter s and can hold their own wi th the preda tors- all except th e great horn ed o wl. . . .
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PICKING UP LOOSE ENDS Tt takes the wool of 20 sheep to clothe a U. S. soldier. l celand recently sent an order to th e U . S . for 35,000,000 fishhooks. Fish ca ught will be sent to England. Charlie Wyatt, of Farmington, N. H. claims some kind of record for expert shootin g. Cha r li e fir ed once a nd bagged two fox and has the pelts to prove it. According to Dr. T. H. Frison, an a uthority, the food most fr equently found in the gizzards of wild du cks consist mainl y of eleven plants named here in their order of value; ri ce, cut grass, cockta il marsh , smartweed, longleaf po ndweed, giant burr eed, buttonbush , duck potato, sago po ndweed, spike rushes, river bulr ush, and American lotus . . .
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SPRING ENDS WINTER SLEEPOFHIBERNATORS

S LEEP is a requisite for a wellregulated life. Sleep lost, they say, is gone forever and never recovered. Edison , the great inventor, managed with only five hours per night and scorned those who spent more than fi ve hours in bed.
Then too, there is the story of the man who was injured and never sleeps. He works during the day at one job and is night watchman after sundown.
Animals have their own ideas concerning sleep. At least seven of Georgia's na live animals are what you might call sleepy-heads. Frosty winds and nipping cold sends them down in a leaf-Jined bur row or snug in a hollow tree where they spend all or part of the winter.
The black bear, Georgia's largest animal, stuffs himself until he builds up a layer of fat and tops it off with a few gulps of pine needles or grass. Now he is ready for his na p. The female is prepared to bring her cubs into the world durin ~; her hibernati on period. It is an all winter nap for the bears. How man y winter mo rnings have yo u looked out your window at miserable, spine-chilling weather and wished you were a bear?
An old 'coon hunter tells of climbing a 12 foot stu mp one night and as he poked his head !>ver the rim hi s fla shlight caught the head of a bear about two feet away. The 'coon hunter had no n1ore facts because he didn 't wa it to find out an y more.

In the spring a young man's fancy might turn to a number of subjects but the bear comes out of his deep sleep ready to raid berry patches and plant growths. This sets up his sys tern for heavier dishes
The frien dly little chipmunk stores up food and stays in his den all winter.
Woodchucks or groundhogs as they often are called, vanish in ovember and reappear with great fanfare and publicity in February. It_ is the old story about the gro undhog seei ng his shadow and dashing back into his den or hole. Then the weather isn 't goin g to be too good for a wh ile but there is no actual proof th at the groundhog is a tru e weather forecaster.
The woodchuck co nsum es large quan titi es of succulent roo ts and grasses befo re taking hi s wi nter nap. After his slee p, he ma y be seen late

in February or in March sunning on his favorite log. Or perhaps he is sitt~ng up giving t~at quaint cry which has earned hun the title of "whistle-pig" among mountaineers.
Our friendly little chip. munk retired in the fall. First he gathers nuts or grain and carries his food in his elasticlike cheek-pouches. In brief before bedding-down he seem~ to be a chipmunk with the mumps. His food is piled up in his under-grown storeroom to keep him strong through the cold days. As much as a half bushel of food has been found in the chipmunk storehouse.
Partia l sleepers include the skunk, r accoo n and squirrels. Georgia winters are rarely severe enough to keep the partial !'leepers in their dens for long. Most of the animals hibernate because inactivity demands little oxygen, conseq uently, little fo od. But the skunk and 'coon have thick, luxuriant coats and frequen tl y move about if the cold isn't too severe.
The reptiles also ow n stock in the hibernation plan. Frogs bury themselves in pond -bottoms and snakes retreat in to crevices below the frost lin e. There they li e in a torpid state, often dozens of them together, until warm su nshin e brin gs th em out hung ry and emaciated.
Winter gives the fo rest a deserted appearance. Bleak, our woods seem to co me to life in the sp rin g.

J - This squirrel is a port-time sleeper. In extre me ly cold weathe r he wraps his long toil around his body and tokes a long nap. On wormer days h ma y be seen hopping about in search of food. 2 - Th e sku nk burrows his way under a tree st ump to escape the cold. He is active all winter if the weather is mild 3 - This groundhog ' is on all-winter sleeper. He is the fello w who is supposed to forecast weather by seeing his shadow.

FAVORS GEORGIA RANGERS IN DRIVE AGAINST VIOLATORS

Commissioner Zack Cravey points to a bullet hole in one of the 30 deer hides confiscated by District Ranger Arthur Wilson, of Valdosta, in a recent raid.

GEORGIA wildlife ran gers are not soft, cushion -riding, tender-footed enforcemen t officers. Their job is not one of those where there is nothing to do and 24 hours a day in which to do it.
On the contrary, state wildlife rangers must be ready on a mo ment's notice to penetrate miles into uncharted woodlands, ready to wade in water chest-deep for fish rescue wo rk, prepared to pursu e violators over miles of broken, ro ugh ground. No whistle blows at 4 or 5 o'clock heralding the end of another day. Of,ten the Wildlife Rangers return home in the dead of the night covered with mu d and a re ready at the crack of dawn for another da y in the field.
Com missioner Zack Cravey has records of each man's work. These records show industry, interest in conservation and iron-clad determin ation to protect the public interest. " Our Rangers," Commissioner Cravey stated, " Must he in perfect physical trim. If any of our b oys are called into the armed service, Unde Sani will get well-conditioned men who can take it."
.Each week hundreds of rumors and tips are investigated. Recentl y a tip came in on dynamiters preparing for "dirty work" on a river near Calhoun. Several Rangers quietly gathered and spen t a cold night on a river ba nk ready to spring shut the jaws of a trap carefull y set to snare these scoundrels who were bent on destruction of fish by use of dynamite. The discharge not only kills the big fish but also destroys thousands of small ~sh and exacts a great drain on river fishlife for a long lime. ]udges never pass up a chance to stamp the full force of the law on such men caught.
Georgia has a few selfish men who prefer to ignore law and order. These men are set in their ways and hunt and fish illegally at their pleasure. The stor y always

has the same ending- these fellows find themselves in co urt, discounted in the eyes of their neighbors and paying a stiff fin e or perhaps given jail sentences.
In Echols County Wildlife Rangers have, in the past, been barely able to fight violaters on even terms hut now the scales of public opin ion have tipped in the Ranger's favor. Word came to District Ranger Arthur Wilson that he had better not show his face in Echols County or he might get a bullet in the seat of his pants.
The effect. of this message acted in reverse as Ranger Wilso n does not scare that easily. He summoned Deputy Ranger Charles Smi th and lit out for Echols County determined not to come back until he had results. It did not take long. One " fire hunter" lost an argument and nine deer hides illegally taken. P ublic sen timent added new flam es to the fire and proved the encouragement Wilson and Smith needed. The first violator paid a stiff fin e. A few days later another " fire hunter" found himself trying to explain to a court how he happened to have 30 deer hides in his home. He drew a stiff fin e and a firm warning from the judge. Echols County citizens cheered . It .was the beginning of the end of wilful violations in their section. Wilson and Smith walked dozens of miles getting evidence. Their traps were carefull y set and the violators walked unsuspectingly into them.
Disregard for law enforcement faded. New respect was won for the Rangers and many violators now are turning to hard work to earn their daily bread.
The Echols County Press expressed the sentiment of South Georgia citizens in a piece on the front page. When citizens want law and order, no power on earth can suppress it. The Echols Press story is re-printed at the bottom of this page in a box.

OUR GAME PROTE~TORS

Recently the Echols Press carried a clipping from the Valdosta Times relative to the activities of Mr. Arthur Wilson, District Game Protector and Mr. Charles Smith, Deputy Range r , in this county. Mr. W ilson and Mr. Smith are dee ply inte r ested in the conservation of Wildlife and we, the citizens of this cou nty should cooperate with the m in every way W I)

can. If steps are not taken to prevent the wholesale slaughter of deer and other game in this county they will soon be a thing of the past. Mr. Wilson and Mr. Smith 1deserve quite a bit of credit for their courteous consideration in performing their duty and carrying on the work of the wild life Division in our county.

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j sh e get~ it bod. l'h i~ striking phologrtaph was SIHlpp ed by 'Nolt e r Sparks.



One of the prettics't '"atc r fc.1 ll!. in GcorgCa

I is found nt Clou dland Ccmyon Stat e Pork. Just beyond this lovdy water falls onr, mcy look do ,.rn ~ long stre tc.h of i n s piring c.an y<.u1s.

i. _ 0 To get under these vta!er fall would r<} q.,irc th i! bc;f p<>rt of " week-e nd trip uncl would :=~~t~i:~r :n~:, .:~~::~~~ .~~-~~

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1 ~~ _..........._.............P..a...g...e........,

Fish Th ief Has No Friend5

2

Spring:::~~;;:~~:o~<~c:v:~~vey

3 ~

G eorg ia Pine Tree Industry Soars

State Income to New Heights .

4

Wal l ar Dys.1i

Jasper County Clay Proves ideal

for Scuiptoring

5

Outd oor G eorgia in Pictu res

6

Keep Gee5e in G eo rgia

7

Bevarly \1</allaca Bvn:h

Got "Bald Hea.ded" Tires?

8

R. F. Burch

G e o rg ia Adds Rock W ool to

List o f New Industries .

9

Amazing G e orgia Fox Terrier Catches Fish
Joe Stearns
Fish Need Clo sed Season
C. C. Ja mes
Conservation Please

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This Month's Recipe .

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IAlaska Rangers Protect Wildlife You Tell 'E.m . Joe Stearns

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l Regul~tion; I No Alarm Clock Necessa ry Joe Stea rns Excellent Fis hing S<:oson Forecast

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Fishing Seasons a nd

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~~"""' "~wernw~ratreew?wwew;m~~~~~

r'\. NE night o fann e r (,Jfobbed his gun oncJ rushed o ut to his
~-. li c jH'Ck. en coop. r,1,e n' c di,eard. a no.se an dh e Ln od' I,)C~n .losins; too many chickem during the nigh ts. In fro nt of the chicken r.:o op he lifted his gun and in a loud voice said, "Who is in th,c.re?" A small voi c'~ answered, "Ain't no b ody in hoa r b ()SS but us chickem ."
The point is-- nobody has o f ondn<~ss for a man who is g ilty of st ea !ing chickens- ru~t !ing hi s neighbo r s !ivesto ck or rhe !ikt-! , Fe v form er s would hesitale to bring $<Jch a thi ef to .ju~;tice an d in a g 1e ot mony cases, some of the men who steol ch ick<; ns a nd livr~.. stock have been shot.

'IAn d in the !'.Cime b rea th , n o mc:n has any res p ect
for fish thief. A fish thief is one who will employ lHegoi mec:ns r or CCitching fish . H'~ !night use a bclSket o r perhetps a seine. O r perhaps even dynamite.
A man.. gui!:)t of the obove uses to get his fish not only l ose~; his 5el f respect but he brands him se lf as o common thief. Th rf. fish me <Wi his. The fish belong to the pubiic. O nly when he ab ides by the iow in his catches is he jus1itl e d in taking fish.
it is not 9ood judgment for any man to risk o rre 5t and to be hailed into court simply because he hos a disto rted idea of catch .. in g fish in d isgusting mann e rs a nd illegally. Some of these men a ct ually believe their neighbors approve such thefts when they sm il e as the man guilty of this crime, tell:. of h is seine , or ba~ket or how he used his dy namite. But the tr uth of the. matter is -- the neighbor develops a certain amount of distrust for such a man. He is d isgusted with the fel!ow and disco unts him imme ns ely in his est imati on .

I wou ld I" <e for every gooo G eorg ion to feel that

w hen a man is engaged in t ese illegal acts - that

man is stea ing some'fh ing from him - his right to

decenlt s ort. A so believe it is just and hon~st c:s

we.! a s the mark o f a ~~ood citizen t o report such

ds . I sincere y o e Ni! live to see the day that

common pride, Americ~ .ism and respect for the

wm r" g . l\'S of other peop le

end forever these illegal

fish 'ng rad'ces.

G e org ia's wildlife Rangers h<;::ve been imtru cted to investigate everv report of illega l fishing. The,.? Rangers aiso hove been lold never to reveal the source of any i r: ro~mrJtion. We intend to bear. down on illegal fishing this sea so n -' :d we need the judges and court~ to hel p us stop this infamou~ pra cti ce . Almost e very judge wi!i fl~e fishing violators. All judges are ;,~ e>rn to uphold the lo w and illeg al fishing is against the laws o7 .:.;.eorgi a.
The re is a job to be done a g ai nsr fishing violators :his season and the Division of Wildlife wi ll o perate over-tim e to see that
it is done.

APRIL, 1942

OUTlD>O(()1~ G !E,(())~GllA

Volume X, No. X

ZACK D. C AVEY. E.:ih'or

JOE l. STEA RNS, A-~onog ing Edi lor

PAT COOPE R, AssociotP. Editc r

P ub li:; h t.! d m nhly by The G<' r g ia D.pa rtrne n t. of N.\itlt":li R..sf,urccs. 4 22 State Capitol , Atlanta, Ga . . l!': ' .

..:~ t. CJ l' l,j conria '\V ii dl iic

:o~d for fi sher :rtt:t\, hun :c::::;. J;.;.'t!.torf.l ;(,\.:c,s a:;J conser va tlOH of naturat rc~?urc c::s. Yearly s t. b~~.:.ri;:.t.iOtt ~ to t . _,. Stah!~ and .. it u lW:;,;.: ::..

!; \ on~. a lk 0~t io:~

nd da

C4 n<.id:l.. ti-. ;.:- ivirv.

75 cent-6: othc .:o cv untrics . ho th oil! anc.i nev;. r.c: ..h ;s s .

$ 1.110. Suhs Co lltints of

cr~l.HH'"S mu.st n ot&l y \.h H~ m;t~a7.t n<:_ mu~t

us <Jf chantr.c o! a< U~ ns::; tou r ""'-' '- ~~ . n~}'!vanet..' ui . i H~\. n o t be repratt d w1thuut :';c J"rrH:--:-. HJfc ~h i.!; ma~~,_;. i n ~ iU

PHil ~dnd

t o Tl'Ct!ive phc,! o~ . rlra win t::i. s to:--if'3 ar:d &rticles deu. Hn g with (JUttl oo r s ubJects . l>u: c:tnnol J.:H:u :1 n tt.: rC'tur n of u n~o l:("itcd \:t.Ht !.nbuthns no t

in ~ ul'i~ ag- ain:H t bo:ir l o~~ - Co flt.l'ibu!.\nn u no t ac..-cnnpani cti b)r sutfic; ic nt postage will not be tetu rned. En1.('red a s 2n clrtAA mnto er .:l.U}.!U:it :n,

1!>40. at the po~ oH.'icf' at AUa'ntn, lm rl t:l' t he Aet of M ~rch ~). 1879.

0 THAT inveterate an gler known
as th e trout fisherman, th e red-
dest lcltc:r da y o n th e cale.ndar is
April lil.
Tht~ ll it is that th e fa m ous tr o ut 51 reams o f th e Chatta h ooc hee 1ati ona l Forest Management Areas be"in openi n ~ up, and fr o m th e n ~troug h Aug us t he will find seve ral .,.0 od streams op n eve r y week-e nd . Friday fis hin g: has bee n elim inated but man y c reeks, lake - or riv e rs will b np n o n certain Wednesdays and Thursdays, o bse1ved as half-
holidays in num e rou s secti o ns.

Restocked annually with th ousands of fingerlings, the slleam;; promise excellent sport for the trout fan . Al so, th ose streams outside the
Areas, whieh OJlCncd Ap til l,
are g iving the sportsman plenty of excitement.

F irst wate rs in th e Areas to open 11ill be Rock Creek Lake and Rn;;k Creek Drainage in th e Blue Rid ge ~[a nagl' lll ent A rea ; Duke's Cree k
Dra in aQe in th e Ch a tta h oochec-Ches-

tatce; IVloc-cas in Creek Drainage in

the Lake Burto n Management Area. and Jac-k's Ri ve r Drain age. with the

excepLi>n of Ro ug h Creek. in th e Co-
hutta Ma na emc nt Area. tT he schec!-
ule fo r Ap~ l appea rs o n th e in s ide
back co ve r o f Outd oor Georgia.)

In add iti o n to possessing a 1942-43 late license, on sale s in ce th e firs t o f the lllonth , each fi sh er m a n ab ove 16

)'c_a rs of age mu s t have a speci al per-

llll l to fis h in th e Areas. These cost

' l per cla1 or :310 for th e :;,aso n a nd

the_ angler. 1rho intends to ma.e many

~~~lls to th e Forest will sa1e mo ney

111 the lo ng run by pur has in g th e

seaso n perm it.

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The. c ma y be obtai ned fro m Ran " eArs -ta t1. 0ned at_ the entran_ce of eac"h b~ca ~ r_- as a tune-s~ver : tn advance X 1' nt111g or ap plylllg 111 pe rso n to t1le Wildlife Divi sion , State Capitol;

OUTDOOR GEOHGIA April 1942

lJ. S. Foresl S e rvi ce, Ga in esv ille, or lh e Di s tri e t Fore,;L Ranger at S uch es. Blue Rid ge o r Cl ay to n, Ca .
Limits are the same as those of last year: seve n inch minilllUI 1 on all trout, ancl a maximum catch of 10 per day. All regulations arc . issued by the .U . S. Forest Service in <oopetation with the State Division of Wildlife.
Practicall y all reg ulati o n::; are Lhe same as those of lasl year. However,

::;tr eant s mosl acc(:;s ihlc to trav len; hav e bee n a~si~ncd th e g rea test numbe r of fi s hin g days- out of d e ferenc e lo the tire shortage. Fishermen can . beg in try ing tiH~ ir 'luck al s unrise and , unless th ey get their limit in sh o rt orde r, keep it up until 7 p. m. ( Eastem War Time) .
Even in the face of a tire and gas shortage, the angler's enthusiasm hasn't been dimm d noticeably. For sta le licenses are selling ri ght along
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Well stocked with scrappy rainbow ond brook trout, th e Chattahoochee Notional Forest management orca streams will open up on April 18 and offer plenty of excitement lor fisherme n. Sev Ulmer, of the U. S . Fish ond Wildlife Service, shows o fine catch of brook trout caught the close of lost season (U. S . Forest Service. photo) .

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'lt!/o.o.d!k~-ui&- Jn Sia;;.!e eCt.nbtib.uiin9Ji104e <Jita~-t 17 tf)O/zedi Pll-oduda,
'Vi-fed '1o ;~'cdia.nai ~eJeP-td-e
By W.-\LTER DYAL
w Di cc wr of Fore~l ry HI::\' upo n ~ u nr ne:x.t \'i:;il to your gl'llcer , your. p:: r l:aH':'- are packed into those hrge brown paper b:ags- chnn ' o';; nn:---th o5e bags were 111:1de from Georgia pine tree;;.
Gcmgia wht~ n measnretl in tn~c ~ealth rates as one of the tichest in Anu1ica. \'Vhile only a ;;m . ll portion of our timber produc.ts nre mwd wi! h in the St. tc, our iueome fron1 forest products amounts to tlwusantls of dolbrs each month.
Car load a{tfr c: r load of pulp wood leaves our load-
ing ) au]:;: for :i1 ill::; in Canton , N. C., Bnw,.wick, ::tnd Savann::dL G or::;ia, and to po)ints in Fiorida. From points
north , south. ca~ t, and ll'est in Ceorvia, forest prortucts arr starteJ o n their 1rav to useful needs of not only this N::ttinn hut th ose of more distant lands.
Not so vcty long ago imporl cd pulp a Hl wood fon u l a place in ou: State indu,;tdes 1HH n!oug came th e discovery and rcalizatio11 1T1at Georgia pines furnished an almost inex'lwust ihlc sup ply of products in no manne1 inferior

One 1n.;ck is. being unloade d ond two arc w ait ing their turn Cl# Ja s,oer. That G eorf;ia wood mu$f be goo d or tile North Corolina mill wouldn't send down here for it.
to those ptevi.ously importf!tl. The vel.')' finest of newsprint to the toughest hrown hag is your from your own (;cmgia pine..
Georgia pine is not only going into paper but along with ::tpproximately 17 oth er {orc>-t pr d11cts an~ p'laying a part in National Defense. Airplane die::;tock, g un stock<., prop llcrs, and crating material are ju;;;t a few of the us s to which we are putting pine for defense.
Never hcfote has your forest heen called upon fot such a contribution .o yonr deJense and in ordct to prevent its sevcee InJury or destruction yo 11 ust rally to yom forest's defense hy replan ng, fire prote<:tiou, good h:nvestin g, and a clos utilization .
. pri is one of th e worst months o:f the year for forest
fires. Your timber la nd is a part of your :farm. It con-
tributes to you r income in proportion to your contribution to its welfare. Safeg uard _, , .t r fo rest future by :re fore tat ion and fire protection.

Th is p u lp wood is b~ing load> d at J<.spcr for a trip to Conlon , N. C., wh ere it will b.:! u;od in the rnanufact ure of paper. Se..,enll cor loads ,...-;.re sh:pped the :.cJ--;,y.. this pict ure was taken .

PLant S a.nudlu.vz9-
0 TDOOH <:EORGIA April 1942

sc LJ.i'TO!t " itlwut 1:orkinp; ma. tcrial--- ::;uc-h a,; d. v--- i:< ikc a

tu,~al. wa:; hi d 1 ia his prai:;e fnr the G~ori; ia c:h):: lt 1-.clti jll:'l. exactly

I.,a.etktlirn~ghi

p<ttw'~ui1thi>wU1tU'lguons bour~gay

hunter
wll jp .

Bnl Senor . go~tinho Hodriguc;<

wh::.t he wankd. l::v:n lJ ller, the ::irnor :;nid, tha 1 th(' cbr he 1r ould ha\e pmchased il; New York . ''Th is

pl1 rtug ne~e u~rI;J ~ t : i rr:,:f.ouT..t.. fd' He

d1JC,oSnlu~n:tn~.::t-h:ilnong\-:ahrih,I

ut it.
v- uio ?-..

l'..h..li'\ .t.

t-Hf

..'vf1:, .

Gr,Hgia cla~'--il i ~ tl: e h, ;;l l have cYer u,;cd . Ju mv ,ork J h;;v~ leunt
ccl to know my ;nule rials by lll)' {in-

Ch:lfIes r'I ti n.ter f' ope, o~4 1:\~i on t':_;:c:i'1 ';. g!rs. My hand,; are sensitive to the

the Seno r d1scovcred h1;; supply oi

+, in \e" York ''':J::. cut d'i. Per-

lh"H.J'" 1 l d~"~1' 1.1. !1oI.' n~.-1- t.u:~o th..ca.

tl-. ' ;
.!'>

, ,

,l:1).

froll1 tl: e .\ell" \ nrk suppl, hou,;e

fed of dav . I \\' 3;>. overioved with
y ,ur (~eo ri!iH clay~ Ho(lri::;ues de-
dared.
l JptH1 c\nlrp.fe".ion of tlh! bust al

co!'l .::;, ]W l" 50 pound s hut Ihe fact i\-Ionticello Sen' r 1{odrkucs 1etumed

1h3t it " . ;:; n o t avaibGte c:1st a gloon\\ outlook foe thi::; ycn:ng :;culp
tor. Rodt"ig u<':' ("<J lli )pcd him

!"o hi:; Ne w York stndi,;- nflll l>IU:I of .". h is ha~!!ag:\'. on tht! retur-n trip. ''.rasa : br~e ;t;;J ]~ly of Ceor;:ia clay.
A3n:;Linho Ht>Jrigu es wns not horn

,;l'lf with a "hovel, a h~ !Hl pid.:

1\' ilh a silver spoo n i.n hi:; mouth. If

and a ;,lore

bucket mHl hc1c an..! th

ehree2~:iannJatospeex1

Connly. Hb immediate pro

so---il soon w11s in a p.:nn1 shop. Hi s
fj,~ht up lhe ladder o{ success w::.s <:
:;l.::w, hard lJattle. A nat uraHy gifi c- 1

!Jlcm w; s abo 11 300 pounds

,:culptor, hr sold papers during the

of clay suitable for sculptur

illo-
<YtJl

w cy

or a

kf.c:wHmeilf~0s1

md it hon1

in :1 l\'lon -

mornings lu hcip his mother with
expenses. In th e :~ftcrnoon hr: fnshion
eel dolls from lliurl to sell t.o touris ts.

Agos.tinho Rodrigues at work with his Gaorg iu cla y. A few tlnishi ng foocb cs and t h" .bust of Mrs. Po po is dono. iv!orc than 250 pound:; of

11 I \ I I I

ticell~ and the day was saved.

It was the old storv. No

G e orgio doy wos IJ!;Cd on this wor~~. And

Senor llodrigt:es, ~ nnlive of Nladrira I:<bml, off the coast of Por-

ll"WII<'r how mnch you sh ake !he milk- the crea~n will al-

below is the go o d old Guocgio day used. S enor took many pounds of !hi; clay back to
New York wU.'! h:m.

A scvlplor'5 sensitive iingers kr,ows go od cloy when lh:. foc!s it. S e nor Rodrigues is show t; IH.tro.:djg~ing and gathering Gilorgio clay.
OIJTDOOI~ CEOHGIA "' . .ifuil .1942

ways c:OJue lo the "lo p . ~l.iH a youngster of 29 th"s l'oilng u csc artis t i,; collvinccd the Goddess of ;o(){! Forlum~ hns continued. o J,l.._:-;, h:im . :\. sc:icntist at t e -;vru;;enm of Nat tral Histmy in Lisbon hecame interested :in his work ~ nd sponsored l "im. He g1aduatcd from the Po tugucsc A<:ad ' ny of Ar t. Then his Govc nncnt sent him to Lon d01 wl ere he exccntcd a nuln be1 o msts i1 dud.iug the late Lord loyd, iormc1 JHinistcr of Colonies.
The war intrnu pi.cd Hnclri g w~::; car eer briefl . For cver;J] months i1e
slept in L01 d.n : sub 1ruys. He h eard
th e menacing; drone of Na zi homhers unloading their deadl y eargo-oftcJ t
near him . He lw: hclncd extin<uish fires and r endered il rst aid to the in iured . He h as lifted hi.s tousel-hai.red head into Lond on :;kles , nd bitterlv clinch ed his fi st. Ee kno11'S first -han ~l
how those Gcrn:an hornhs, whistles attuchcd, scremncd their way into the
f C o .1ti n ued >n i'a g<: 14)

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J - It is lovely ~! . Pine Mountain
State Pork these warm spring days. Visitors ore getting to this popular
resort by use of many modes of
transportation. On the right o couple would not be denied the pleasure of the mountain trails and roads and used a motorcycle to gel around . Men in th e armed service stationed of Fort Be nning have adopte d Pine Mountain Stole Pork as their Favorite recreation spot . Pine Mountain is less than 100 miles fro,.;, Atlanta . Swimming, picnics, booting, fishing ore on the pro gram doily . Make reservations For a weekend now . The Tavern is show n on the left. 2-C/ipper, Bulldog owned by Groce Hartley isn't nearly as mean a s he looks. Here he is in a playful mood but Kitty isn't so sure. With a m ugg like that-no Kitty could be trustful. 3-Ju dge Castello, ol Cuthbert (/elf}, shows Govern or Talmadge his African specimens which he has loaned the State lor d is play in its museum . 4 - Robert Cravey admire s a shad. II you want to get a bolter idea ol how important shad is to Georgia just price a con ef shod roe at your favorite g roce ry store . 5-You are not seei.ng fhings. This actually is an Albino C.oon and was trapped on th e Chattahoochee River. He is snow white and lives comfortably in his cage at the Grant Park Zoo where keeper Johnny Dilbeck gives him every atle ntion. Albino Coons are lew and lor between . 6-This is a rabbit trap . The rabbit walks in and the I'C><f time he is seen he might be part ol a fur coat you might have purcl1ased undeT any one ol six dozen names.

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ores Canadan

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Waterfow

BY

ARLY o n m n r ning before

urcakf :; t

.1 dia n farmer

tunerrcrlamin,toonW.gSm.

a'tsm. .gJ

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xie m .

AFta1arnmta,Haonudr

phrocd a Gcor 0'ia Wildlife Division

peeaarker say s.0omet1ung about WI'ld

ducks and geese.

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That was suffici ent to inspire How ard 13. Smith of \Yin?na, ~~t.ario, to rite the State W!lclhfe Divisio n and
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prlaud the appeal Ed Wall, super
~ior of Wildlife Rangers, made. Mr. \\'all had urged landowners to plant
special winter feeds for duck and

geese.

Mr. Smith's interest in wild

mire the ones that get throu gh, when we think of the 3,000 to 4,000 miles lin ed with hunters," he wrote.
Mr. Smith had several pairs which took up at his farm a few years ago and now they have increased to a sizeable drove. Last season, he wrote, he allowed the wings of a drake, gander and their six offspring to remain unclipped, curious to see if their wild instinct to migrate S9uth would overcome their domestic rearing and association.

geese. Also, they resembled
th ir parents. H owever, some-
one down in Dixie, perhaps in
your Georgia, got one of the
young as well as the old goose
and ganc er.
"Spring is early here this year. The warm winds .and rain came on the 19th of March and took off the snow. Most of the Canadian geese, wild ducks and birds that winter with you arrived March 21. There were more geese this spring than we have seen for a long time, but they only stayed a few days and then went on farther North. My own wild ones are .beginning to take up housekeeping."

"eese dates back 'to the days of
h"is child 10od when they nes~ed

Mr. Smith gives emphasis to the Georgia Wildlife Division's appeal to

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around his homeland. But, he said, they have continued to go northward where they breed, ' for the most part, on the small islands in James and Hu.dson bays and where they are "fair-

landowners to plant chufas, duck potatoes, wild rice, brown top millet or

.,I'

other wild waterfowl needs. Informa-

tion on where to obtain recommended

plants, grains and grasses can be ob

tai ned by writing the Division, State

Capitol.

ly safe from man and their natural enemies like fires and

"If your hunters really want to hold the waterfowl in Georgia during

wolves.
''That is over 1,500 miles north of ~ here I live and almost twice .that distance from their winter quarters down your way. How we must ad-

"Mama 'and Papa Goose always keep their young between them -sort of a family convoy system" writes Howard B. Smith of Canada, who heard a Georgia Wildlife Division broadcost over Atlanta's WS B station not long ago. ." Here the gander is get ting reody to leave the water to chose us away ."

their winter migration, you surely ought to plant "foods along your ponds, lakes and rivers for them. Ducks and geese are like folks-they like resorts where the quarters and food are good."

Tltis i Mr. Smith's gander who failed to make tfle return trip to Canada lost spring. However, \\o young eluded all hunter's guns and, despite t!oir liberty to stay in the wild, returned to ~.Smith', form.

"One day in the middle of Januarv thev took to the air and form ed
a la.rge V, circling higher and high er.
Finally th ~y were just specks in t' e air but the V was pointed South and I knew they were headed for a warm er winter resort. So I said goodbye to my geese, never expecting to see them again.

Writes Mr. Smith: "This is the old gander and myself scuffling. He is trying to crack me on the shins while I use a bucket to ward him off. I always allow him to win."

"But on April 15, when the
snow was nearly gone, five young ones alighted in their field where they were vocifer ously welcomed by those whose wings had been clipped. When I went out to the field they immediately came toward me, looking for something to eat, so I knew they were my own

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~{.JE CAN'T h ;:~ v e ' 'h u:si nes;. as u;. \' ' t:3r ' d urin ~ th .. w3r , un d 1nany of our usui\i \V ays of llfc are going to be ir t err upt f~ d in th~~ co urse of taking care of H irohito, Benito and Hit !cr. Bu t yuu can have a vacation this su m mer and, Lest of all, you can h ;:~ v e the bc:;t .1c:ation L>f all right here in Geo r gia.
Ail the u:nks o f the State Park Svs
tcm .1rc ;ow o pen for hol idays, for
v sc :~ti o n tri ps and daily visits. Some of them. which have lain dormant d ur in !! th e winter :nonths, are more bcautrful than ever this year in their blossomings of redbud, dogwood and crabapple blossoms, to he succeeded by laurel, azaleas and rhododendrons. Vo!!el, for exanm1e . should' be a fa
vo;ite with thou~a~ds of Georg ian s.
with its fin e facil iti es fo r hoatin g and swimming and with manv miles of
traii for hiking or hor'scb~ck riding.
Pine Moun tain, one of the loveliest r esort spots in Georgia, has her fa ciiities for bathing and fishing in season and is expecting a record b reaking attendance of Georg ians for vacation stays in the hotel or the neat row of cottages.
fort Mountain, still in the develop ment stage, is one of the most beau ti fu l pots in Georgia. While not ada pted to p rolonged vacations yet, s in ce th e prog ram of building colt ges h, s not been completed , a newly constructed lake offe rs swimming and boa ting, and its b eautiful trails af ford unusual opportunities for hikers an d wili " ell repay a visit.
Magnolia Springs State Park and Alexander Stephens State Park have excellent swimming and picnicking facilities, and Little Ocmulge.c and Loura Walker State Parks have cabin s for vacationists and both have f. shing lak es seco nd to none.
Of course man y thousands o' Geor gi:~ns wiil pay the ir 31mual pil grim age lo I ndiao Springs, the most ex tensively visited pa:k in the system, where one may stay for a 'day or man y weeks.
The lakes and. streams in th~ 'State

Park S ystem , a,; \\'Cli as th o;.;e in parks opP. rat c: cl l.y Fed .~ral a uthorities, ar e
well st<>ckrd with t],,h. and those
(;eorg ians wl: o \vi:;h to ''wet a line" this summer can ftnd ' 'Pl'; rtunity i <> r som e o{ the finest fi!'hing in the
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Everybody who can take a vaca tion, without interru pting some effort .vital to Natiollal dciense, should do
so in the intere;;t of he;~ hh. hanpine;;;; and well-being. The worl~ers ' in .d e
fe11se industrv cannot alwovs, how ever, get away for a week at ~ time, Lut :many of them c:~n m an age a week
end here and there, or a full d:Jy pret ty often, {or some r<:Greation that will send them back to their jobs with
renewed energy.
Hight there is where the efforts of
another division oi the Department
of Natural Resources are bearing fruit . Nnt only in the lakes of the
St:Jte Park S ystem are there oppor tunities fo:r good .fi5hing . Many of the stream;; of Georgia are teeming, with fi;;h as a result of the conserva tion and restocking efforts of the
Wildlife Division. G~od fish ing is to
he found in the Ogeechee, the Oconee,

A lla: na h;:: , Oc:nu igee, \Vithlaco uc:h ce,

Sa tilla----in a!mw; t an y o f th e :;treall\s

of C eo r~ i a ---and in th,~ lakes to be

fo und ' n Nor ilt Geo rgia ':. h i\l;<, in

lVlid d i, c ,~,;rgi a ,l r i n S o uth Gcow ia.

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1""hi ~ ~ HiBn: er i a g<u .d lll nP. to get a cquainted, to o, with t he penp le on th e fa r m . Th e city d wc il er mi g ht. just pack up and a rra nge to l.oarcl in th e CPuntry .for a week or l.w<> of vaca tion. Th(' fo nd is th e b ,.st on eorth. The fun i;.; plc-ntiiul , and the bu si ne:;s of gcttin p; ~1equ:~inted wi th thC' farm ers is a finr. thing for city fol ks. In cidentally, so me of th e fin e-:;t fishin g on eorth is to be found in the innum erable small fish ponds a nd tiny lakes that clot th e farms of Georg ia . A few years al!o Laure ns and D<Jdge County authorities, cooperating with the fann ers, set out to h elt-J aH th e farm ers who want ed t hem to build fi sh ponds. They loa ned d r;J g lin es at cost to the farm er to excavate and throw u p 1\mall dams. As a r esult, there must be scores of gonJ fi;;hi ng spots in those counti es alon e. They se:rve

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About 100 mili.s from A tlanta is Vogel State Pcu k or. it.{i_.u: mountain rt3 freat for vo co fi o nis1s. V isito rs may use eiti-,o r cabin s alon g the Luke \'>r the beovfilvl inn shown hertl . V ogtll': lofty mcuntoins suc h as shown just bock of the Inn hert), c:tt rc:d tl1o u sa nd; o f visitors each year. Try Voge_l th is y ea r lor a stn.h1m f;ne d mountain vacofion .
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W. Corey Hansard, State Division of Mines Ceramic Engin ee r, pours white-hot minerals over steam pressure valve. Those white streaks will pile up and the result is rock wool.

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Captain Peyton repo rts Geo rgia is well supplied wi th the necessary min.erals to man ufacture rock wool. The principal miner als used in r ock wo

are : dolomite, sand, limestone, kao-

HOSE g iant wheels. of Georgia tion with the use of r ock wool. The lin, slate, shales, grapite, serpenti ne

indu strial progress will spin a cost is from S60 to $80 per ton.

and fullers earth. Geo rgia has large

bit faster now that rock wool is about to make its debut afo ng the slate manu fac tu ring front.

Several Georgia man.ufacturers a re seriously considering plants which will adequately supply the entire

deposits of these minerals ava ilable .The supply is practically inexhaustable. That is good news.

For many yea rs Georgia has been . South. That will result in a great

These min erals are heated to 2800

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forced to im port r ock wool from ll- saving on freight, perhaps better degrees Fahrenheit. The furn ace, at

' linois, Indiana and New J ersey. How- rock wool and .reduced prices on this temperature is at intense white

ever recent e xpe rirn ~nls co nducted by the product.

heat. The crucible then is li fted fron'i

Captai n Ga rland Pey ton, State Direc-

the furnace with ton gs and a th in

tor of Mines and Min in g, in coop-'

stream is poured in the face of high

eration with W. Carey Han ard, cera-

steam pressure. It looks similar to

mic engineer for the Division of

fireworks. Streaks of white shoot out

Mines a nd members of the State

like something from a roman can-

Mineral Survey of the W.P.A. result-

dle. This piles up about 30 feet away

ed in successful production of rock wool.

and the result is r ock wooL

Rock woo l is widely used in hundreds 0f ways. .T he insulation of your stove or electric refrigera tor is accompli shed w.ith r ock wool. Without it, you r stove would use twice the ~mount of gas it now uses and you JUst would n't like tha t. Your ice box

Eruption of a volcano led to th e discovery of r ock wool. Molten lava running down the mountain side wae exposed to high steam pressure anc
produced rock wool. First manufactured in Wales, it came to American ind4stry in 1900.

Would use a greater amount of elec-

With an in ch thickness of rock

tricity without rock wool. Our bat-

wool around your hand, you could

tleships use rock wool on yun turrets to r educe co ncussion and sound. 11omc insulation is a simple opera-

This furnace in the state laboratory heated tha minerals that made the
first rock wool in Georgia.

stand the full heat of a blow torch and not burn the skin . That 1s msul~tion what is insulation!

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ATTENTlOi'i Hingling 13rnthers circus--- Bob Hipley's ."Bc:!.icve It or Not"- -& John Nix and his, "Stra.ngc a.s. i.t .Se!ms"---there is a three-rin g circu~ avRilable nr.a r Hep;l<~ibah, Georgia, all wrapp<..l up in a single little fox . terrier
dog named Gyp. Cyp isn't ju;;t a log. He is a member of the fami ly o{ Lombards. Mr. aw:l
1\:ln;. R. H. L1i:nbarcl own Gn:; or rather he owns them and the :full name if yo11 please---is Gyp LoJnbard and h."e gets mail by that. name.
The l.omhards say Gyp can Jo just ahout anything hut ku t and what';; :more they can prove it.
\Vhen Wildlife Ibllger H.. E. Spears, of Au g usta, :reported to Outdoor
Georgi:~ that he had foun d a dog that liked to fish, clouds of doubt a nd question popped out. Your reporler called on the Lombard:- and arrived in time to take a few pictures of Gyp having his brealda:;:t. The Lomha:rdf; were at the breakfast
table and ill h is ;;hair 5at Gyp. His food wa~ placed before him hut he wouldn 't touch it until Mrs. Lombard s, id, "All right, Gyp, eat your brea kfast." Gyp then extellded his head aml star ted in on hi ~ hra n Hakes with s.ugar and crea m . He then a e t wo slices of bacon and sorne toast. Gyp looked II') and barked--;-not too lou<l. Yes, si r-something was wrong. His coffee was before him but it didn't have sugar and c ream. Gyp kno ws all about the su~ar shortage s urely but the u he feels that hi:; demands are e ver so small.
Mrs. Anne Lomhanl then spoke to Gyp. "" How would you iik<: t(J go fish ing'?" The fox tcnier harked several tilnes and seen1e{ tre1nendously excited . At l .mnb;:H<l mill ou Butle.-'s

crcc , Gyp d : ::;hcd out of the car and h eaded straight for the
ere k . e wadecl <:mti o usly into the water and began to probe 1!Jout with his f ct. ':; eyes were glued on the W< ter. A two ;)Ound creek sucker swirled do e to Gyp .and into the waicr went
his hea< . He missed but I c began to fish again.

Like a statue, the beau tiful brown and white dog s tood in the water waiting
lhc. right moment to catch hi s fish . Suddenl y hi s head went down and h e caJllC up with th e two jJO und sucker wiggling and twisting. Gyp held on. H e placed th e ftsh on the edge of the wa ter a nd th en grabbed it again and walked "!'acefull y up to M r. Lombard and laid the fish at his feet. After a pat on the head from M r. Lombard , Gyp turn ed a nd dashed back into the water. He not only fish es but he loves it.
Mr. Lombard said he had g rea t tro uble keeping Gyp ou t of the creek . He 11 ould stay in it all day long catc};ling fis h. Once he g rabbed a 2 % pound bass and came ru nn in g home for an affectionate pat o n the head ,

1\ rs. Lombard's s is ter is the wife of Ty Cobh, famous Georg ia baseball player. Mr s. T y Cobb writes Gyp on his b irthday and



always sends him a little presen t at Christmas. Last season Gyp's

package from Califon ia was placed under the tree. The dog stood

guanl over that package. He knew it was for him. He was fussy until it was opened.. It had a ball, some special food and some

toys th at dogs enjoy.

Not more th an a dozen fishing clogs have ever co me to tht: atten ti on of the

\alural H isto r y magazin e, an authoritative publication on wildlife and nature.

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J-He has his eye on a sucke r. Fishing is , his favorite sport . It is serious business .to Gyp . 2-ln
e goes. Head completely under wate r and he grabs the /ish. (Picture furn ished by Mr . Lombard.)
3Gyp moves /ish to land. Look at that two-pounder. 4 - 0n another occa sion Gyp landed th is
btecm. Belie ve it now? {Picture furnished by Mr . Lombard-all others by Outdoor Georgia photog
ropher.) 5-Mr. t;Jnd Mrs. Lombard' s daught e r puts down a towel and Gyp dries himself. Cute .
6- Koyo, another dog , also likes fishing and is shown here at his favorite sport. 7 - Bran flakes with
.ugar ond crea m. And Gyp thinks it is swell. 8-Mr. and Mrs . Lombard with their fishing dogs :
w,, Lombard has the 2-pound /ish Gyp iut caught for him. 9-Coflee time . Without sugar and
ueom Gyp just . wouldn' t be interested. Imagine/

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If Georgia J:~;j to l l l.tve Good J?ish in.g They il:lusi Be Allowed to Spawn Un dis turbed

Hy C. C JA.JV'ES
Su lH: linh:u <hn.t c, ( ~ lG. t!' F is heries
F we give M ' .i1e r Nat u r c a
.~ ~h a nce to reple ni::-h he r bird ::; 3JH.i a nin1 al s~ t.h f P')Of ti~h aLo ::,hould cer ti: ' nly be g iven the sa me npportuaity for a:; m :ch ;~;; 4.J o r 60 d a y ~, in or- der to spawn and sto~k our ponds and
suca n\s.
~.\s soon as th e :;. 1r j og season opens up ar o u nd the :niddlt>. of April al1fl until ea rl y in June, all warm water fi:;h b egin 1.(' seck 1heir fl]Jf.!Wning g r ou nds. T he sp:~wnin;; pe riod for all b3&S, bream, perch, crappie ;.~nd catfi ::;h is ever after a bout 60 days \vith
th e i'Xception of hre3m which spawn all durin g the summer until about Sep.tember lOth . The younger b r eam
ar th ese late spaw1i ers.
The 1ahits of the h. :;,; are mos t inte1esting. At the pro p er season the malf! hegins to loo "or a hom , site and sc. lcct one in water from 13 in c H:s to 3 fee dee l, depend. g o n th e temper tur e of the wa e:. If t 1e wa ter is c old the n es is 'n sha low water. Papa 1st ti e 1 fans ou th e place with hi:> tail 1 n 1 all silt is gon . m < the g ass roots or lebh s , ncl gr, vel is exposed. A h o m > til n ready fo r oc cupun cy, Mr . B ass goes courting. i\.ll the girls look alike to 1"m n d t h e f-irst one he sees suits im fine. y he lives in a i>On{ w! ere male bass predom inate 1e will have to fig h t valiantly and violently for his mate. Even after he has fought for her favors he prohahly has to rlrive her to the nest so she can deposit her eggs.
After the eggs a re laid, if there is
a n abunda nce of fema les, he will
chase away wife No. 1 and bring iu
wife No. 2 to deuosil more eggs. If he then feels that' his n est has ~ sui-
fi cient .number of eggs he proceeds to
fertilize them. After they arc fertilized the fond p3pa stands ~.~uard over th.~ eggs and keeps ll &ediment and silt fanned away and all trespasse:r5 ch a:;ed off. Each {ull grown fc:naie
b:~ss between the ages of two and t'ive
years will lay from 7 to l4thousimd

eggs . .i\s l) apa is rai ~i11 g lwo fanrUies . al o ne time Lh : nr 1<t holds around 20,000 eggs.
During Lhe incubati on of the egg:;, th~ male. bm;s will strike at any thing. M3ny fishermen who are not good sports will cat ch these iish d u.r in~ this ::;pawning p<~r i od. This same pra~~ tice applies to other warm water fish.
The eggs hatch front .five to ni ne
days after being fertili<:ed, depend ing on the temper<Jture of the 1~' ater . :The tiny fish, wl:en first hatched; is :~b~u t o ne-eigh th o{ an inch long and he is m ade up of eyes ;md a yolk sac which is h is source of nourish -
inen t for th e fi rst t wo or th r ee davs. Papa bass is still on the job. These baby fish can't swim for several days. As soon as the little tail grows free from the sac it begins to wiggle and the little fish swims. When th e ba-
hies start swimming they are kept togeth er in schools and Pa pa Bass herds them in to safe sh allow wa ter wher e they can hide among the grasses and feed on daphnia and m in ute wa ter
plants. lf any fish comes along m o-
lr.sting the small o n es Pa pa p roceeds to dispose of. ' it b y eatin g it, since h e has n ot eaten :<incc h e sta rted n estin g a.ncl th us can make awa y with many fi ngerlings at th is stage. Howeve r , h e will n ot harm o ne of his o wn offspring until after it has g ro wn up and left home to make its o wn way. T hey .all look alike to him then.
Of ten two or three schools of f ry join f orces an d m ake one huge school. vf hen this happen s you can see two or three anxious P '"pas "riding h er d " o n this large mutu al

fa m ily. Finally .the P upas de-

d dc their yo ungsters a:c o ld

e n ou:2:h to f <:nd [or themselves

and

tl1cy

cha r~< ~ t')

throunN-h

the

F<chool s s ~attcr ng the little fi::;h

throughout th e pond .

Bream : hlu ~gi ll, r edhre.:~ >-t arHl :;trawbc rry , :;de<.: !. their J: es linc; ~i.tes
!1,1 :;lightly shall o 1~e.r water than. ba~s:
th e y (Jften e,;tabl1sll a c:onm:um!.y ot m:~t.s . The male brcarn will so111etin1C
have a mr.ny :w th ree o r more nests to protect and they have bc:~n known
to stay nn guard until they die.

Young bream alld pe rc:h , unlike the bass, as soon as hatched are leit to care for themselves. When they are' large e no ugh they go into the shallow waters to h ide among the grasses to feec!.

Crappie is becoming a popular and va luab le fish for Ceorgia waters. AI-

most all the' State anJ Federal Fish Hatcheries are preparing to propa gate crappie. This iish spawns about the same time as bass and bream and
lays from 3 t<> 6 thousand eggs. The
yo un g are dclic<Jte and dif!-icult to transfer until thi'y are yearling size. This fish is suilable for most of the waters of this state, espeeially for ponds a nd streams that are cloudv. W hile perch are sim ilar except they will do well in very clear water. Crappie do much h<'.lter in cloudy water than in clear water. This is incli~ated
by. the bulgi~g of his eyes when he
is placed i n to n clear water. This eye. bulging will prove fatal.
Catfi5h also spawn in the monttl of May. The well known chamtel cat, speckled cat an<1 bullhead -are de,;irable food fish . They also provide much

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fi shin g. oots and

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lik e ho llo

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spawn und er

unth.c

b:~nk s o f po nd s. Catfi sh la y a ppro:xl-

wtcly th e sam e number [ eggs as
11rap pic, 3 to 6 Lh o u ~a nd . Th e late

Katchcri cs are a lso prepa rin g to pro-

pag<Jtc thi s des irable spec ies.

In the hrood ponds u sed f01 speckled catfish and bullhead lengths of gum logs and section s of 4. to 6 inch clay pipe nrc placed for nests. The pm cn t fi s h herd:; his b rood until
they are from 1 to 1 !I! inches
in length a n d keeps them in :1 close small school which rc semhles a swarm of bees seeking a n e w home. If anything breaks up the school the par en t fish herd,; it hac - into the same peen iar formation,

Trout; rain bo w, brook and brown, do not have the sa me habits as the warm wa ter fish. T hey spaw n principally in November and December. The male trout prepares the nest in a gravel spot in shoals of cold swift water by fannin g it clean with his tail. Sometimes the adu lt rainbow family is a trio instead of a pair, as it is composed of two males and one female. Wh en the female deposits the eggs th e males fe rti li ~e the eggs and then ca refully cover them with gravel by fa nr~in g it over them with the ir tails. The two males wor k together
peacefully an.d both gua rd the eggs for a da y or so after they are covered. The nest is then left a lone and the tin y fi sh hatch in 30 or 4.0 days dependin g on the temperature of the water. They work themselves up through the gravel carryi ng a yolk which is a food sup ply for abo ut 21 da ys.

After th ey have co nsum ed the yolk they :scatter to suitable sha llo w waters to feed on the natural food in the stream . The spawnin g habits of the broo k and bro wn trout, with the excepti on of the trio famil y, are ver y si111il a r to th ose of the rainbow.

After stud yin g fi sh and their

hab its for twenty years and realizin g

more each year the necessity of ob-

servin g a spawn ing season , I want to

appeal to fi sher men o f pu blic wa ters

and priva te po nd own ers to observe

the spawning season . You might as
well break up a bird nest or hen nest

as to destroy a fish nest. It is impos-

sible fo r the State and Federal Hatch-

eries to stock wa ters suffi c ientl y to al-

low fi shin g 12 months a year and 24

hours a day.



( l ) For artificial hatching trout eggs

ore o . Fertil i zed by the mol e, then
.strippe d .

b. Gathered after they ore laid. c. Laid by the female, fert ilized by the mo le, then gathered. d. Stripped from the female, then fertilized by milt from the mole.

(2) The age of o fish is best deter.mined by

o. By the length of the caudal fin . . b. y the overall "length of the fish.
c. Comparing the girth with the weight.
d. The rings of the s~ales. e . The length of the gill-flop.

C3) Put these animals in their proper order according to the degree of wariness.
a. Spermophile. b. Rocky Mountain goat. c. White-toil deer. d. Wild turkey.

e. Block pear.

(4) Which of the following ore very destructive to the eggs o.nd nestlings of the mourning dove.
a. Shrikes. b. Weasels. c. Flying squirrels. d. Bottle flies. e. Blue joys.

(5) A female corp generally lays from
o. 2,000 to 6,500 eggs. b. 60,000 to l 00,000 eggs. c. 200,0000 to 750,000 eggs. d. 30,000 to 50,000 eggs.

(6) Why is o psychrometer important to conservationists?
a. It tests the rote of heartbeat in game birds.
b. It determi nes the oxygen content of fishable waters.
c. It measures the amount of groundwater in permeable rocks.
d. It enables foresters to determine atmospheric humidity.
e . It measures the blood-pressure whe n a trout-fisherman hongs one over fifteen inches.

(7) Which of the following trees gen-

erally grow in or near water?

a . Tupelo.

b. Cypress.
c. Water oak.

d. Alder.
e. Pin cherry.

(8) The proper way to string fish is to ru'l the stringer through the
a. Upper lip.

b. Lower lip. c. Both lips.

d. The gills. e . Anal fin.

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That toothsom e del icacy - frog legs- is the suggested recipe for this month. It was reco mm ended by the F lorida Carne & Fish publication. Sounds good.
Here is a rec ipe fur frogs' legs. The ori ginator of th e rcc ip , al Okeechobee, is fam ed for 1hi s rec ipe. We hope you'll like i1 :
Cross th e frog le gs in pa irs by in crting 1he small end of one bel ween 1he mu scl e and bone of lh e small end of the seco nd leg. Sal! and pe pper. Roll in fl our, 1hen dip in milk, then roll in cracker meal. Cook in dee p, hol fal until a gold en brown.
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Court at F ran Ill
Fines 7 vo ato:rs
Wildlife Ranger Perkins, of Mt. Zion, won the gratitude and support of sportsmen in Heard County r ecently when he secured bills against seven violators of game and fish laws.
Each of.the seven violators entered a g uilty plea . All paid fin es which ranged from $22.50 to $50 in the court at Franklin. It is the first time in years that violators in Heard County have been made to feel the hand of justice. It is just ano ther instance where public sentiment has fail ed to approve illegal methods of taking game and catching fish.
The action by citizens in Heard County, and court in Franklin against the recent violators, is but a warning to those who do not preIer to play the game fair.
I wont to go bock to my Swonnee Ribber cab in, Down where de' dorki e s am singin' so goy ,
Wh e re de' fish om fe e din' and 'gators ore sleepin'
Throug h de' long; sunny hours-Lord hasten de' day.
Dere's Mommy in de' doorway and sister in de' cradle,
Foh many long years dey been hountin' my mincl;
I wont to go bock to de' little log cabin Dot stands by de' ribber wid de' cypress and
pine.
want to go back where d e' sugarcane om growin'-
.Dere's a little shock covered with muscadine vines,
I call it home, this place I'll soon b e goin' My Swonnee Ribber Cobin down South ~ among cle' pines. -By C. H. Huey
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o Trap Vio ors
Fourteen wil dlife agents of the Alaska Game Commission traveled 203,500 miles in 194.0 to protect the Territory's wildlife reso urces from poachers, illegal trappers, and other violators, according to its annual report made to Secretary of the Interio r Harold L. Ickes.
F ur exports continued to rise, the fifth year of increase, with a total of . .565,5.53 pelts bringing Alaskans over $1,958,500. In the 16 years that export records have been kept, the Terri~ory h as shipped out almost 7,079,000 fur pelts for an aggregate of $40,654,000.
The Alaska Game Commission is the operating agency in the Territory for the Fish and Wildlife Service.
In apprehending violators, wildlife agents used every means of travel available : Agents spent 675 hours in air planes, for a total of 109,150 miles of travel. Patrol vessels carried the men 24,600 miles; outb oard motorboats, 16,400; commercial steamers, 4,700; railroads, 3,600; and dog teams, 1,700 miles. To reach otherwise inaccessible areas, the agents walked 6,257 miles to "get their men."
Of 174. violators prosecuted during the fiscal year, 169 were convicted, 2 were ac.quitted, and 3 have cases pending. . Violators were sentenced to an aggregate of 1,590 days in jail, fin ed $6,215, and forfeited articles sold for $13,000.
Largest individual seizure of illegal game was at Juneau, where a Commission officer found 15 deer in a seine boat.
Big-game hunting attracted non-resident and alien sports men who shipped out 244 animals; bears, 133; mountain sheep, 52; moose, 21; caribou, 20; mountain 0 0ats, 15; and deer, 30.
Fur shipments from Alaska during the year included 158 black bears for an average of $2 each; 62

polar bears, $27 each; 14,630 beaver, $18 ; 2,080 coyotes, $5.00; 9,031 red foxes, $7 ; 1,501 cross fox es, $13: 632 silver foxes, $27; 4,634 whit~ . foxes, $11.25; 8,844 blue foxes, $19.25; 270 hares, 10 cents; 1,196 marmots, 50 cents; and 9,626 martens,. for an average of S32 each.
Some 43,700 minks brought an average of S8.50 each; 453,300 muskrats, $1.10; 2,804 land otters, $1 0.50; 720 squirrels, 10 cents; 9,895 weasels (ermin e) , 60 cents; 444 wolves, $18; 326 wolverines, $5.50; and 1,698 lynxes, for an average of $4.3.50 each.
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heart of a large and beautiful city, terrorizing people. The Senor. becomes very grim when he thinks of those nights spent in London. Night after night and no lights. No coffee, no sugar, one egg a month, practically no fresh fruits vr vegetables. He vividly remembers one day in London when 1'e had what. is equal to $2,500 in American money in his pockets but as he said, "I was a poor man. What could I buy with this money?"
"And what do you think of America'?" ~odrigues was asked. Agostinho's answer was explosive, "America?-! am wild about this country. As a boy I kept telling myselfSome ay I will go to America. The people here do not fully appreciate this great country. They do not know how wonderful it is to have free speech, to think as you please and to do as you please.
My Governn1ent sent me to America and always I will be grateful to my Government for it. I would like . to make America my home. I have r egistered and I am ready to serve, America in the Army. This great, powerful country will crush Japan. And your Georgia-it is marvelous. Such beauty and so much of everything. I am happy here. Such hospitality-! have never seen anywhere." That is what the Senor thinks of America.

310 Pavilion Stree t, S. E. Ma rch 21, 1942
Atlanta, Georgia Outdoor Georg ia 422 Stale Ca1>it ol Atlanta, Ga. Dear Sir:
Jn closed yn u will find clc~k for Sl to renew my subscript io n.
I have enj oyed th e magazin e. 1 subscribe for several sport magazines, bu t Outdoor Georgia conta in ~ informatio n and stories about lhe sla te which is nol found in other 1nagazine .
Yours for bell cr hunting and fi shin g, .1. K . ]lA NNON .
Mr. J. S tearn s :
Enclosed find my check for subscri pti on renewal. I enjoy yo ur rna:;azinc very mu ch. My hik e over th e Georg ia sec ti on of th e Appalachian Trail was the most cnj oyahlc o utdoor expe rience of my life and 1 hope to repeal it oo n. J was partic ularl y impressed hy th e cou rtesy and hosp it ali ty of th e Wildlife Rangers located al tha~ time al Winding S ta ir a nd Un icoi Gaps. This type of ranger plus Georgia's natural beauty make for an ideal outdoo r vacat ion.
Very truly yours,
F n~: omiCK J. M A LETZ
2,836 Mink Farms
Listed in U. S.
All but six of our states have mink farm s totaling 2,836 in the aggregate. These facts are based on the first census ever taken of the fur-farmin g industry in the United States by the Bureau of Census and the Fish and Wildlife Service. Wisconsin and Minnesota headed the list because their colrl climate is a r eq uisite to the production of prime pelts.
JOY the thrill.r an
0 i 0 ..D M YO.
- - -- ojjer.r
ri=ish ou~-of - ~he-way places.
*****
Motors sold, serviced and
rented at
ATLA " A Ol'J.... OA D iE
LOUIS TROTZIER
311 Spring St. o Atlanta

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OUTDOOR GEORGIA April 1942

Scrap Iron for Japan!
H.:w Adams, of the So il Conservation b epa rtm.ent at Monticello, tells of the co unt y agent who was talking to a gatherin g of farm ers recently . The co unty agent asked the fa rm ers to ga ther all the scrap iron th ey
could find. O.ne farmer leaped up to ay "The
last time I saved my scrap iron, I found o ut it was sent to Japan . I've ot some more iron but t.his time I ~vant to kn O\V where it is go in g ?"
The co unty agent smiled and r e plied, "Well, sir- we are go ing to send this scrap iron to Japan toobut it will go the re a da rn sight faster than any we ever sent befo re."
* * * TVell Earned R est
Byrd English, North Georgia sportsman, has settled down to taking life easy and enjoying fishing and huntin g in his home state. And Byrd
tells why. "When I was big enough to shift
for m yself, I went to my father and told him I never would say Giddy-up to a mule again as long as I livedunless the mule was in my lap.
"A day or two later I hopped a train and started to look for a joh in Atlanta. I remember stopp ing to observe the statue on Marietta Street and then walked up to the old Post Office just one block away. There I so.w a sign. A Ma1ine was po"nting a finger at m e and the words on the board said, 'Uncle Sam wants You! See the world as a Marine.' Well sir, the next thing I knew I was marching with a gun on my shoulder and 30 years later the Marines retired me."
Mr. English has earned his rightto fish and hunt and just take things easy. He was wounded several times in the last war. A number of German bullets plowed into him but never stopped him. Byrd would like nothing better than another crack at the Axis but Uncle Sam says he" did his job well last time. So, happy fishing and hunting to you Mr. English.

(; e ron into, th e IV arrior
Da mo n Hi cks had a rath er laz to'c a ftem oo n o f it <.rl c sunn y day late in Ma rc h at 13lac k Rock Co untry Club. Dam on hooked a 61/z po un d large mouth bass that put up an awful scrap before losin g a n argument with a hook. It was a beauty. Hicks also caught a ,three pounder and a one pounder. All bass. He topped off the day with a one pound bream . . . Harry Barber, veteran trapper at Sea Island, recentl y caught a huge bobcat that had killed a large buck. Barber set traps around the deacl deer and when he returned Mr. Bobcat not only had put his foo t in it but he managed to get two feet caught. Barber set out several traps ... The Seventh Annual North American Wildlife Conference will be held April 3-9-10 in Toronto, Canada .. . American Indian soldiers from the good old U. S. A. are in the front fi ghting ranks in the Philippin es and also in the Hawaiian Islands. In fact among four Mescalero Apaches, re ported at Corregidor Island Fort several months ago, is a descendant of Geronimo ; one of the greatest war
riors in history . It required 5,000 U.
S. Army troops, 500 Indian auxili-
ries and many civilians to force Geronimo's small band of 55 men and 101 women and children to surrender after months of fighting.
* * *
Some Odtls anti Entls
Wildlife Ra nger H. V. Eller and his son Vaughn noted wildcat. tracks near I31ue Ridge recently .and set dogs on the trail. Shortly after, the dogs had the cat up a tree. From a dis-

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and a number of s pecial permits have been req uestecl. AIso, th ere has been a stcadv strea m of inquiri es a t bo th th e Wi ldlife Divi~ion and th e U . S. Forest Servi ce hcaclquarters.

All of wl ich cau ses o ffic ial s to feel surc the dyed -i n -thewool fi sherman is goin g to spend as much of his leisure time as possible trying to h ook those ttout, even if he has to hike up to the mountains to do so. .

Since the openin g of the trout

streams just as th e season closes on

warm water fi sh (A pril 15-May 31),

it is more welcoi11 ed than ever to the

ardent fish erm a n. For with the " rass

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growmg green er and the s un hotter

by the minute, North Geor g ia still offers the onlv real cure for spring fever--to go fishin' .

tance with a

of 50 pistol

yards and th

e

Vau ca t

~"lhrnop

paeidm

ed to

the ground lifeless. That is some

swell shootin g . . . Woodpeckers do

not ha1m trees o rdinarily, but do

destroy injurious tree insects . .. All

mammals can swim, some of them ex-

pertly. Not all mammals, however,

like water ... Ambergris, a waxy

concretion formed in the intestine of the spe.rm whale is said t~ be worth

its weig ht in gold. As mu ch as $60,-

000 worth of this ra re substance has

been taken from a single whale. Once

it was used as an incense, in cookery

and as a medi cin e but now it is used

almost exclusively as a fixitive for

the fra grance in fin e perfumes .. .

The electric eel, fo und in the rivers of

Brazil, attains a length of 6 feet. It .is

the most powe rful of th e electric

fi shes. Some stories tell of h orses

crossing streams and bein g kill ed

fr om the shock of these eels . . .

Those high, barren slopes of Mount

Rainer are swell drill grounds for

U ncle Sam's soldiers. The boys learn

mountain and winter warfare tactics.

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AMARA, small daugh ter of Mr. and i\Irs. Wiley Tu cker, of Atlanta i lonesome a nd fretful. The Tucker Luni ly tri ed to pacify T amara wii h pro llli c of a dog or a cat or doll bu t no- T ama ra want anoth er crow. I or the past year Ta mara had a crow for a pel but a deliver y truck scurri ed into the Tucker driveway on Wi eu a Road recently and Tamara's pet cro w- Crodie-Jo-met an untimely end under whirling wheels.
Ctodie-Jo was not just a crow. No- he was 1nore than just n pel. He was one of the family. He was ad opted into the fam ily about a year ago when P apn Tucker, r eturning home from Florida, stopped down in South Georgia and purchnsed the crow.
On his way home, he was tempted several time to release the crow. When he walked in to his home and exh ibited hi - purchase Mrs. Ruth Tu cker sadly shook her head. "Wiley," she said , " what in the world has come over yo u ? Where did yo u get that thing and what is it? Let me smell your breath." That was Crodie-J o's welcome.
At the insistence of Mrs. Tucker, Wiley parted with the crow th at night, turning him out of the back door. The next mornin g Crodi e-Jo j abbered a good morning fro m his perch on top of the ho use. And there he chose to make his home.
Tamara made friends with the aow. He would fly down into her sandpile and join in as she played with her ~oys . Occasionally Crodie-Jo would gtab u p a small toy and fly off into the woods and hid e it. Tamara would let o tT steam and h e r pet would just clancc on a tt e limb and
1-Meet Crodie-Jo. 2-Tamara likes to hove he r hea d scra tc hed and Cradie-Jo is obliging. 3-This is home sweet hom e for Cro d if' . The family alway s found him p e rched an the house top. He would fly down ta th em wh en called. 4~ Tamara was alway s happy when she could play with her crow. 5 - 0ccasionally Crodie would get mighty sassy with his co, co, co, but he always calm es down when Mr. Tuc ke r twe aks his bill. 6-Who ever thought a crow would pitch a litt)e ' woo. The rascal is stealing a kiss from Mrs. Tuc ke r.
7 - Cro die enjoys a ride on the car bumpe r. 8 - Loo ks as if we have a case of mutua/
admiration. 9-When Tamara sits on the car bumper, Cr!>die flys over too as if to say, "Hey Kid, what's cookin'."



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en joy it. F inall y he would lninn the toy back to th e san d pil and all was 'orgiven. o it went day afte r day-T a 111:ua :tncl her p .
)[rs . Tucke r look :1 fanc y to th e bird . She discovered Crod ie-.J o Jikcrl egg for hr :Ik!'::tsl so e::tch mo rning she wou ld fry pne extra egg for the p t. Aft 'I' tha t. th crow wo ul l ca l nothin g else but eggs fo r hrc:1kfa l.
Each vcning as Wiley came home from work, Crodie-Jo ,,o uld flr up_to the head of th e d riveway and perch on the bumper of the car.
Hr enj o;ed that ri lc do \m to the back of the house an d into the
~3 r:t !!C- Other -ro \\- d iscovered this slra nn-e bird a nd probably talked it ~;cr~" ith him i n cro ,, lan g uage. He d id n' t leave his n ew home. No sir, 11011c of th a t wild li vi ng in the woods for him. Maybe he didn ' t know he "as a c ro11'.
Soon the Tuc ~c s d iscovered that it was u seless for them to se t an a l: I'm clock. CtodicJo took ca1e of that joh. Each morni 1g at 6 :30 o'clock the crow would fly to the winclow a nd peek on the glass until somebody got up and ackn o wl edg d h is signal.
On ce the Tucke r fam ily was up, Crod ie then sailed off for Dr. ] . H. Tucker's home abo ut a quarter of a mile away. There he tapped on the 1\indow until W iley s fah er got up. I magine-a crow for an alarm clock .
\Viley learne1l lon g ago that it is useless and brutal to slit a CJ'ow's to tgne in hopes he will talk. Crodie nev er lca rn c <l to cot 1 ri g 1t out and carry on a conversation. However, his odd vocal soun ds were not without nteaning. The Tuckets kn e w m any of h is sou nd s and they declare Crod ie d i 1 his le vel hes t to speak up.
o- lillle " ond r Tamara is an unhappy li ttle girl. She cried and cried "hen Crod ie's broken body was d iscovered . H e was buried under hi- favo rite pi ne tree. The Tucker fa mil y is ver y fond of animals but all of them swear by a cro w for an ideal pet. T amara has Papa's promi;e that he will vis it ou th Geo rgia in the near f uture and bring h er another pet crow. No th ing else will do .
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'l'f'~ 0 l'BOT F _:T th e l> r~ m . ha,;:;, p: rdt an d >tlw r wa r n1 .la. ' ' Jl<'r i15h . th e Stot f~ c a is 3 h;dt on c:! Vf:rv k lnd of
n ~hin ~ t.: XGf']>l lrou!. fishin:?. from Apri i 15 th to. J une h t.
T ru ut. a Cl)ld l\' 3te r ;;pec i e~, :;pawn in the fall and win te r . Therefore t h sea~o n on th e m remain:; ope n fr o m no w
until next !'\ ovem ber.

T he an g le r who lands a scr a wny bas"' dur.in g ;.pa wnin t; seaso n upsr t;; na ttlles p la ns fo r resto ckin g our la kes 11nd strra m:;, s ine, th nt i1;;h p robably wo nld have prodnced thou ,-an cl:; uf you ng, fo r that rca ::;o n, th e Div is ion of Wi ld li fe ur~e::; spor t:>mf'n i \ > o bser ve the annua l closed
se;1 sun.

Fottun td y, the out look on . warm wa te1 fi ;;h is CX<'c lle n t , d ue, in pad , to the cxcc ,;sjve . amount of r a ir . The high water has ,;cattered he fish , il u shi ng them f rom tlw large r h odics o f water int o the s maller cre eks and .htkes. Al~o, the heavy early spring d ownpov rs l"e vive d many favori te old fishi n g holt:s a nd strea ms t h ~1t in some casel:l had l~ccn Jry fo1: some tim e.

Ra n r;r.r s h a ve been on the al e rt for lra pl;, r;ets and oth e r ill egal devices "hi c h destr oy co untle::;s numlu~ n; of fi sh and this too accou nts for the r osy o utlo ok . Durin g the pa~t yea r-, the D ivision o f W ildlife has released mo re
than a. mill ion and a h a lf s ma ll fi sh and althou gh th ey I\on ' t be large e no ugh to offer the fish erm a n s port 'this season , th e y- will g ive hi m plen ty of fun i n th e fu~me.

Ther e will be n o m aj o r chan ge i n the fi shing r eg ul a

tions fo r th is seaso n. All wa rm wa te rs in th e state,

except L ake Jackso n a re closed fro m Apr il 15th to

June lst. The str ea ms in t he follow ing JH moun ta in co un -

ties---Ca toosa, Chattooga , Dade. Dawson, Fann in, Gilmer,

Conlon , H a bersham , Lumpki n , Mu rr oy , Pickens, Rab un ,

Stephe ns, T o wn s, U ni on, W alker , Whi te a nd Whitfi el d

ar e excep ted f rom this r eg ulation and are closed fr o m

l'; ovemher 15th throug h Ma rch 31 s t inclus ive.



N ot o nly ( oes the fi shennan des ttoy innu merable you ng fish when h e catches an
ntlult during the spawning season, hut he hlltm 't 111 t ch in t 1c wa y o:f a food fi sh . For
rnos t of t 1c w ;:g m water male s, which take over the hatch joh, don' t take out time to cat wh il e hey a re w ~1tching the n est .

One of t he m 0"'!. desc ripti ve ex amples of waste in catch ing " ] ccld ing" fis h was writ ten hy \V . T . Anderson, .lvbcon T elegraph ed it, r and spo rt:;m on .
"At St.tilb R iver ;;c. ~ral yea rs ago,'' he wro te, " l saw a b unc h of ci ty slicke r& catc h' a1.Gq~, 20 red-belli ed br eam.

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T h , brNtlll (:o ul d be :<;:en ;~ t th e lH >ll o m nf th e nve r ;:, ua rd i ng th e ir lli'.St ,__ Wh .n ;~ piece uf t ras!: 1,-r.uld floo t ove r , o r a n o th er fi ;.l; would conte int\1 the i lci .~hhorhoo d ,
th e ' ha td 1e ;' would dw !'e a w3y the: inva d er ~ r t ~t ke ttc
trash in its mouth an d ,-:arr v t hc~t off. To don;;le the h q~ k with worrn on it, wr iggl ing a nrl twis tin g , wa;; as good as
ha ving th e fish t)n the h ook. Since it d ,;es n' t eat d ur ing
the hatc.h ir;g ti me, its on ly ictea i;; to <;h al;e the w o rm, which it lllii;tak es fo r tra s h , [rom th e pr1~ci o u:; nest. .

" My ii <ohin g f ri e n ds cau ght th es~ fish a s fas t as they
cou ld he loc:a ted o ver their heds. l pl ,a ded wi th them not to la ke th e m , tha t th o usa nds of eg;;::; and little ones were be in g d est ro yed .

'But a nvthin !! was fi sh to those :!D loob who d idn ' t

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know any better.

'"T IH:,. n c x t m o rn ing o u p~ut y went i11 to th e yard to see the <:ook <:lcuni n g fi ~ h fo r -di n ner . Evcl"Y tin1 c h e c~am c to o ne o f thl',; c r cd hcll ics h e wou ld thto w it to II e h og,.; n e al'hy. :F or the b e n efit of th e fi sh e:m(n I a s k ed t he (;ook, in a k ind o f JH"O (' o;l, wh y fln ear th he was throwing those b eau tif ul fi ,; t t o th f' h ogs.

"He said , 'those fi s h are as poor a :-;na kc:;. The y were heddi ng a n d a r c just l ik ~ a p or uld h ,:n whe n sh e is :;ctlin g . Those fi sh arc no mor, lit i,; ca t th <n th e set ting hen'."

A sig ht to ma ke the fis he rmon 1s h c l1rf b (:at i~Hi w ith io 'Y - more fi sh fo r i .~ e
la ke s, creeks, riv e rs an d pon d :;. Here, C. C. h Jmcs, su;:: e; in funden t of S~u f!t Fish Hat ch e rie s, is shown releas ing o -; moll part ,.,[ o.ve r a million c od a h all fing erlings liberated within tl1e p ost 12 mo nth' in G eorg ia wo fers .

AP IL

STR EA M

OPEN

AREA

Rock Cree k la ke an d Drainag e Naontootly Jones Cree k Drainag e

April 18-19-25-26

.. Blu e Ridge

.... April 23 ...

........ Blu e Ridge

.. April 30 ..

..... ..... Blue Ridge

Dukes Creek

....... April 18-19-23-25-26-30 Chottohoochee-

Chestotee

Mocossin Cre ek Droinoge

.. ........ April 18,- 19-25-26 ..... loke Burton

J ocks River Dro inoge ( Except Rough Creek } ... Apr il 18-19 ........ ..... ..... ... Cohutto

SIZE liMIT : Th e m1n1mum size limi t for all trout is 7 inch es. C REE L liMI T: Th e max im um catch in any day and the max imum numb e r in possession for on e person shall not exceed 10 fi sh of any one or all species. FEES A N D MANNER OF FISHING : Fishing permits sholl be $1.00 per person per day or S 10.00 fo r season permi t. Pe rm its sholl be volid on ony streom or loke during the reg ulate d se ason for such wa te r. Permi ts shal l not be valid unl e ss accompanied by a regular State Fishing License . Children und e r sixteen yc ors of oge sholl be ollowe d to fish w ithout permit. Fish sh oll be to ke n only with rod ond line. Any type of boil or lure, e xcept Bolli mo re minnows o r gold fis h, may be used. Each permittee shall hove in use at any one time o n th e are a not more t ha n o ne rod and line . PER MITS NECESSA RY BEF OR E FISHING : Fisherm e n ore required to obtoin fishing per mits before th ey beg in fishi ng. Pe rmits con be obtoined from the Wildlife Rongers on the are as or t hey can be o bta in e d from the following addresses: Division of Wild life, Stole Copito l, Atlonto, Go . Fo res t Supervisor, U. S . Forest So rvice, Gain e sville , Go . Distr ict Fores t Ranger, U. S. Forest Se rvice, Blue Ridge , Go . District Forest Ranger, U. S. Forest Se rvice, Suches, Go . District Fo rest Ran ge r, U. S . Forest Service, Clayton, Ga . Wildlife Range rs and patrolmen will be at various road entrances into the areas and permits may b e o btai ne d from them . However, to ovoid delay in getting started, fishermen should obtain permits as far in advance as possible . Pe rso ns found fishi ng without permits will be liable for legol .;ction. FISHING TIME: Fishing sholl be p er mitted only between the hours of sunup on~ 7:00 P.M. o f th e some doy, eos te rn wor time . CREE L CE NS US : Eoch permittee will be furnished o fronked Government postol cord, addr essed to th e for est Ranger, on th e bock of which is a form for recorded pertinent informa tion in reg ard to his catch . Ea ch permittee will be requestc.! to fill out the card an d le ave it with Rang e rs or patrolmen or moil it (no postage required ). The information obtain e d from these cards, if accuratel y recorded ~ will be of value in formulating future po licies.
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(Continued from Poge II)
Here Mr. an d Mrs. Lombard have three dogs-all of th em fo nd of fishin g. Gyp's so n, Ti ppy, enj oys fi sh in g-- probably ta ug ht to ca tch fish by papa- and there i::; Ka yo, a mixt ure of bulldog a nd selle r, that gets a big thrill out of catchi ng fi sh . Kayo is U years old an d slowing down a bit but not so slow that he ca n' t catch fi sh .
After a few ho urs in th e po nd fi shin g Gyp will come out and dry himself nn a to.vcl spr ad out for him on the g rass. None of that shaking and wigQling like oth r dogs. You know the kind that will co me right up to you and shake wate r all over yo ur new sui t !
An eve ning at hom e with the fa mil y alwa ys is a pleasure for Gyp. Occa ionall y he wi ll require a little snack befo re bed tim e. He goes into the dining room, picks up a peca n a nd brin gs it to Mrs.- Lo1nbarcl who cracks the nut and feeds him. Gyp then run ;; for a no th er and so on until he is satisfied. U nlike lllOSl do gs, Gyp is part vegetar ia n. A little meat now and then . is 0. K. but he wants h i::- vegetables too . He even enj oys a drink of or a nge juice occas io nally.
Gyp likes to hunt and Mr. Lombard claims he is one of the hcst squil-rel dogs in the business. W hen duck season is open, Gyp is the rig 1t mswc1 for a duck shot on the pond. He does not hesitate to h op into chilly water, swim out and bring the duck to his hoss. Gyp tries awfully hard to talk. He whines and sort of howl s back t you when you talk to him. His inte lligent head twi::; s ~n d turns an d he looks you ri g ht in the eye. And make no lllis a t-" -he knows-most of the time, exactly what you are trying to tell h im . . Ye:;. s ir--Gyp is for sale. The price- a fe w to ns o f sugar, fiv e dozen new lires, nine ton s of gold and two 1nillion do)lars in nickels a nd climes a nd even then- it's a bargain.

Got 'Bald

s?

(Conti nued from Poge 8)
a dual purpose; providing a rcsc r voir of wate r for li vestock d uring drou ghts, as well as food and s port fo r the fa mil y. The same program was pursued in mai1y other Georgia co unties.
Th e Wildlife Divi s io n of' th e De parlment of Natu ral Resou rces has been ass istin g these farm ers to stock their fi sh po nds. As a re-ul t they s im ply teem with perch a nd bass.
Of co urse yo u ca nn ot fi sh 111 a private pond withou t pe rmission fr om the ow ner. A sma ll fee, ho wever, us u all y will win th e ri ght to get in a day of the hesl fi shin g possible right at h o me.
The main problem of a summer vacation this year is go ing to be gel ling to the spot. You will not wish to use yo ur a utomobi le any more than is absolutely necessary, what with the tires getting pretty thin and the prospect for more next yea r gelling thinner ::;till.
But you will find a suitable vaca lio n spot in Georg ia, not man y miles from where you are.
And if it isn't th e best vacation 111 man y years, we'll be surprise.

SMALL M OUTH ss
LARG E MOUYt-1 B SS BLUE G LL ISRL:A SHI:LL-CRACKI.:R BREAM

Live delivery guaranteed. Write for p rices and informution .

JAS. H. REEVE,

Calhoun, Ga.

A S
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(Continued from Poge 13)

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* COVER PAGES *
This splendid picture was taken on Moccasin Creek on the opening day of the trout fishing season and L. W. Lanthier, of Covington, was caught in the act of trying to tease a rainbow with a hook and some worms. In the shadows and pools just below these beautifu l falls, the rainbow trout are furnishing many Georgians with great spart fishing.
Ba ba blacksheep. Have you any wool-Yes, sir, these sheep have several bagsfull. It takes the wool of 20 sheep to properly clothe one U. S. soldier to say nothing of broiled lamb chops. (Pictures by Joe Stearns.)
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!fn CCkis !fssue

Pag e

We Must Stop Forest Fires

2

Commissioner Zodc Cravey

Fishermen Are Regular Fellows .

3

Ed Wall

WATER: Georgia's Most Valuable

Natural Resource

4-5

Joe Stearns

Pictures From the Dog Show

6

Fill Those Empty Seats . . .

7

R. F. Burch

Here's.Good News About Quail

8

Beverly Burch

Drafting of Trees . . . . . .

9

Walter Dyal

Fox Plays and Hunts with Dogs
Joe Stearns

10-11

Conservation Please

12

Smith and Autry Win Top Honors

12

Wildlife Tidbits

12

Down By the Old Mill Stream

13

It's Spring in Georgia . .

. 14-15

Ceramic "Grand Opera"

16

W . Carey Hansard

You Tell 'Em
Joe Stearns

. . . . . . . . 17

Clearing the Decks
Jalce Finch

. . . . 18

Fishing Seasons and Regulations . . . . 19

We Must Stop Forest Fires ~
Huge tongues of flam e, fanned by spring winds are eating away valuable timber in our North Georg ia Mountains. April and early May are the danger months in our forest since the wind and sun combine thoroughly to dry our woods to the point of crispness.
So terrible and destructive have been the fires that it was necessary to close the Chattahoochee National Forest to the public and this action stalled hundreds of trout fishermen who had just caught the fishing "fever." It serves to bring home more sternly the words "Everybody loses when fo rests burn." The ban on the Chattahooche~ Forest is expected to be lifted as soon as adequate rains come.
On the opening day of the trout fishing season, April 18, State and Government Rangers were called on to put out no less than six fires which might have destroyed large t racts of wonderful timber stands if they had been neglected. In each of the fires, it was shown that careless fishermen had either tossed away Iighted matches o r cigarettes Two cases proved that fishermen had built fires to dry shoes and clothing and left the fires burning.
Fires nea r our splend id mountain streams could cripple severely our trout fishing for the e ntire year . Wood ash from the burning trees would be carried into the streams and hundreds of trout would perish. Surely no man would want that crime on his hands.
It is estimated that better than 85o/0 of forest fires are started by man. Thus it is shown just how careless people are apt to be in the woods. It is so simple to put out a small fire, to step on a match or a cigareHe before moving on.
People are less apt to be careless if they know by their foolish actions, they might be taken into a court room and fined heavily or perhaps given a sentence. There should be a law directed and aimed particularly at the very small percentage of men who deliberately set fire to the woods for one motive or another. A man guilty of arson in our woods, particularly while we are at war, is more than a fool. He is a traitor to his country.
Georgia needs firm, icy laws to clamp down on careless people. The state should have laws with long, sharp teeth that could bite deep into the hide of a man who would build a fire and walk away leaving its hungry flames leaping searchingly for the treetops.
. The fire you might see raging in the woods does not mean that just the stand of timber is lost. It means the earth is scorched, er.osion gets a foothold, vegetation is gone, future crops are out of the question until rehabilitation of the soil is accomplished, and wildlife that made its home in these woods has been destroyed. And still that is but a part of the loss. The landowner is the big loser. When his lands burn, he is stuck with earth nobody wants. It is estimated that more than $2.50 damage is done to each acre burned-aside from timber and the price goes up when all angles are considered.
It is patriotic these days to fight fires and it is common sense that you be sure you are not the unwillir.g cause of a fire starting . Don't pass up a fire in the woods no matter how small - do something about it!

MAY, 1942

OUTJD)(Q)(Q)IR?. GE(Q)IR?.GilA

Volume X, No. XI

ZACK D. CRAVEY, Editor

JOE l. STEARNS, Managing Editor

PAT COOPER, Associate Editor

BEVERLY WALLACE BURCH, feat.ure Editor

Published mo nthly by The Georg ia Department of N a t ural Resources, 422 S tate Capitol, Atla n ta, Ga.. in t he interest of Geor g ia wildl ife and for fis herme n. h u n ters, nature Jovers a n d conservation of natUr a l r esources. Yearly subs cription s to United States a n d its possessions, and Canad9., 75 ce n ts ; other co unt ries, $1.50. Subscribers must n ot ify us of c ha n ge of add r ess four wee ks in advance of ncx t _pub-
lication da te, g iving both old a n d new a ddress. Con tents of t h is magazin e must not be r eprinted w it hou t per mission. T his ma,:cazine is glad to recei ve photos, dra win gs, stories and artic les deali ng with ou tdoor s u bj ects. but cannot gua rantee r etur n of uns olicited contr ibutions nor ins ure against t he ir loss. Contr ibution s not accom pan ied by suffi c ie n t postage will not be ret ur ned . Enter ed as 2nd c lass m atter A ug ust 31. 1940, at the post office at Atlanta, ~n der the Act of March 3, 1879.

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Best Trout Fishing in Many Years Is Prospect For Georgia Anglers

By ED WALL
0 CE I heard a thin,..~le individual ask, "Pray tell .ne, what on earth makes gr.own up men drive hundreds of miles and spend days fi shing?
It is difficult to answer in so short a space as this but first of all , the fi sherman is generally a regular fellow. You don't find a man out fishing grum bling about rough terrain or no fi sh caught or the water and food all wrong. A fi sherman is a man who welcomes the opportunity to come in contact with another fisherman and to talk fishin g. Not always does he get fish but those hours he spends in the woods, along river banks, on a quiet lake watchin g the gentle ripple of water tap his boat and glide by, and the night spent under the stars with fishin g companions means more than words could explain.
If you don't li~e to see rushing mountain waters roaring
down narrow channels with
swift gurgling sounds, soaring

hemlock and poplar trees
towering high above you and
seeming to nod a welcome to
you as the wind plays through
their tops, then, of course, you
won't like fishing.
A fisherman likes to get up at the crack of dawn and get to the water. That stillness of the woods in the early hours of the morning, like a forest lazy and drowsy after a night of sleep, makes you glad yo u're alive. During the afternoon the family gets a lunch together right out in the open. The smell of fish cooking in the wilderness has no equal. Appetite? Man yo u could eat a whale! And the ride down -twisting mountain roads makes you hate the idea of having Lo go home.
And the real fisherman goes back again and again. There is no monottony to fishin g. A good fisherman wants to try out new and harder places. He always wants one bigger and better than the last one he caught when they took his picture. Who ever heard of a youngster getting into trouble while fishing? No man or boy thinks evil while fishing. The devil must find a new workshop when a man sta_rts fishing. There is just one way to find out what is fascinating about fishing and that is to go out and fish a few times. Wait until you feel your spine tingle as yo u tug and fight a big one on your line.
Not since the opening of the
management areas in North
Georgia has our state had such
a bright and sparkling outlook

for trout fishing. This should be the best trout fishing season Georgia has ever had. Our mountain streams are-extremely well stocked. In fact it can be said that Jack's River is overstocked. The big ones are there-go get 'em.
Trout fishermen are using worms. About the middle of May the boys wi ll switch to flys and spinners.
L. H. Paris, vice-president of an Atlanta bank, gets the pearl handle frying pan and the trout fishing championship of April with a 15 inch trout caught on the opening day April 18th. And Mr. Paris insists the biggest one got away.
The trout streams will open again as soon as rainfall is heavy enough to remove the serious fire hazards. Before yo u fi sh on the Management Area be sure yo u have your state license and a permit. And be sure yuu fish on the right stream.

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H. G. Richie, ol Cornelia, walks right out in

Moccasin Creek seeking rainbow trout. He

doesn't mind wet leet. Richie was in action the
day alt~r the trout season open ed in the !.1an

agement Area .

......

In order to get up Moccasin Creek you are

often called upon to cross log bridges. A cou-

ple o f trout fishermen halt in the middle of the

bridge to look things over. It' s 0 . K. if you

don't lose your balance.

GEORGIA'S MOS
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Q UONSTANTLY, AUCU
By JOE STEARNS
NEXT to the air we breathe, water is the most important thing to life. Then comes food and so on. A hundred books could be written about a single raindrop. That drop of water might play a part in a destructive flood , or it might start in a mountain stream and finish up in the Atlantic Ocean only to start all over again.
Snow melting on mountain peaks and the resulting' water moving into the River Nile once determined the amount of tax the people of ancient Egypt had to pay. Thus was the first check on the flow of water made. The watermark on the temples along the River Nile registered how much water was present. An accurate check on the flow of water is kept in Georgia. The State, in cooperation with the U. S. Department of Interior's Geological Survey, a branch of which is the Water Resources Department dealing with surface water, operates over 90 gageing stations in Georgia. The first check on water in the United States was made on the Colorado River more than 50 years ago. Great importance is attached to this check of water flow. The weather bureau considers this information extremely valua ble. Heavy rains in the North Georgia sector might produce a flood in South
1 - Gageing station on Etowah River near Cartersville. 2 - Water level recorder. One of these in each station. They register the rise and fall of the river. 3 - This staff gage shows height of rivers. 4 - That article with the clock-looking article is the current meter. The silver gadget is a sounding reel hooked on to what looks like a bomb but really is a weight. 5 - M. T. Thom son, District Engineer, prepares to measure the Row of the Coosawattee River. 6 - This cable car
is used to glide into position . 7 - Engineer Thomson lowers the meter in to the river. 8 - Ticlcs

,tLUABLE NAT URAL RES0URUE,
LY UHEUKED BY STREAM GAGERS
Georgia, although down south the weather may be clear. The volume of water flow from city to city is very important.
The North Georgia mountains are watersheds for five Southern states. Water trickling and seeping off our mountains supplies rivers and streams in Georgia, Tennessee, North and South Carolina and Alabama.
Air absorbs water. How many times have you heard, "It's damp tonight?" When the air has absorbed a certain amount of water vapor, it can 'handle no more and the result is dew. Wet air is lighter than dry air, causing an updraft. Water vapor then is carried up and up until it meets cold air and con denses. When these little particles high in the heavens con verge, you see clouds. So much water gets together in the sky until its weight makes it fall. Rain, then, is this water return ing to earth. On dry, hot days we are apt to drink a great deal of water. Few have any explanation other than thirst, but there's more to it. Much of the water you dri nk is breathed out of your pores and absorbed back into the air. The sun dries yo u out and your body fights this condition by providing more and
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in the earphones from meter in water checked with stop watch and a chart tell Engineer Tho mson how fast and how much water is going by . 9 - With high rubber boots, Thomson heads
lor the Cartecay River with his measuring equipment. 10-ln he goes. 11 - Looks a bit like
trout fishing. 12- Meter is set-up and made ready for action. 13-Thomson checks the velocity all the way across the river to get accurate report. 14-Stream gager's tools. The meter is shown in action .

Your Outdoor Georgia photographer napped a few of the oritocrah of
dogdom recently at the how held in Atlanta. J- Meet Thor, of Reg nave, a
Great Dane owned by Mn. Dori P. Alexander of Deerfield, /1/inoi . 2 - Thi one i known a Brenda Gardinier, a beautiful Harlequin Dane owned by Mn. W. A. Mou, of Atlanta. A beauty and certainly one of the be.t looking
o dog in the how. 3 - Thi fellow looked lonely but he didn't mind having
hi picture taken. He probably ha had hi picture taken o many time it bored him. And on top of that, he fvck hi tongve ovt at the photographer.
4 - Ye ir, thi one tole the how. Withovt o mvch a blinking an eye{how wovld yov be able to tell} thi pooch grabbed off enovgh ribbon to

make a mall flag and fruited away with a well collection of silver cups. Don't get any idea abovt the clothe he i wearing - remember he is II French Poodle. Folks meet Joli Toqvimba Bon Ami, owned by Mn. John Knvden, of Atlanta . Don't you jvf love thoe powder puffs he i wearing on hi leg! 5 - Don't look o ad Scrapper. Yov' re breaking my heart. No amount of coaxing covld get him to smile. Looks like he is down to his la.t bone. Officially he is known a Champion Buccaneer of Idol 'Oun. He is a blooJ. hound owned by Pearl and Edd Armstrong of Long Beach, Califomill.
6 - Mascot on a shrimp boat at Brunswick. 7 - Beautiful seller owned by
R. L. Hvdon, of Vidette.

8 - Charles Hunter Pope, judge at field trials and expert on hunting dog, ha a champion in Brandy, a eHer. Mr. Pope ays he prefer> etten to pointer> for hi own ue. He ha everal of the be.t looking elfers you ever aw at his home in Monticello .

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TA E PARKS OPRATEO BY
GA DEPT. OF NATURAl RESOURCES D1 1510 OF STATE PARKS

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Invite Your Neighbor Next Time You Visit Your Favorite State Park

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By R. F. BURCH
Director of State Parks
WE are in a pinch! We are pinched for tires. Our gaso lin e supply is pinched, but ou r good Georgia peo ple are taking it with a smile and are willing to accept what co mes,. if it helps us to win the war.
Unde r ordinar y circ umstances Geo rg ia 's beautiful state pa rks mi ght suffe r a drop in attendance but Georg ia people a re not o rdinary people. Already we have witnessed great c ro wds gettin g to o ur parks fo r recreati o n, swimm ing, picni cs, boa ting and such. Thi s has been acco mplished by peo ple sha rin g their tran sportatio n fa c iliti es 11ith fri ends.
The days of empty back seats in cars is a relic of the past. Don't he guilty of an empty back scat - take your neighbors or some f ricll(ls along when you visit your favorite state park.
U nd er the fri endly and capable ma nagement of the H olmes boys, Vogel State Park, hi gh in Geo rg ia's scenic mo un tain s just above Cleveland , o pened late in April and will remain o pen until cri sp mountain winds late in the fall send us hack to fir esid es.
The re is enchantm ent a nd mag ic lure in a fe w da ys spent a t Vogel. Cabin s are available to the public alth o ugh it is a n excellent idea to make reser vation s in adva nce. Dog 11 ood. wild azal e a s, vio l e t s b) tumbling

Pretty Ethel Wood is getting a vacation ideo from one of the many state park signs which have been placed in various sections of Georgia .
strea n1 , a nd c ra bappl e decorate th e lofty should e rs o f th e mo unta in s near Vogel. When th ese lovely blosso ms have go ne, th e rhododendro n and mountain la urel will hurst into bl oo m. A nd 11ho 11 o uld 11 ant to n1iss o ne of those s well sq uare da nces at th e Walasiyi Inn ea ch Sa turda y ni g ht 11 ith 4-pl~ hill-bill y mus ic?
Pin e Mo unta in S tale Park nea r Chipley is the prourl h ost to hun d red - of o ffi cers a nd men fr o m Fo rt Bennin g each 11 eek.
Laura S. \'(! alker State Park, near WaytToss, is pre pared for the first time in its history to offer overnight accomodations to individual guests, and meals also will be available. The park is one of th e best fi shing si tes in Georgia and opens June l.
And as us ua l. Indi a n prin gs tale Park 11 ill ente rtain and prov id e rec reational adva ntages fo r th o usa nd s o f v is ito rs.
Alexand e r H . Stephens S tate Pa rk. a t Cra11 fo rd vill e. has add ed a da nce pavilli o n and o pened Ma y l with a large cro wd. Th o usa nd o f to uri st vis it thi s pa rk eac h year.
Th ere a re plent y o f place to go and mu ch to he seen in Georgia. Do n't leave Geo rg ia o ut o ( ro ur vaca ti o n plans a nd be s ure to fill up th a t back sea t!

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O UT DOOR GEORGIA M(ly 1942

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lNG OF TREE S

Uncle Sam Will Use 20 Million Trees To Care For 4 Million In Armed Service

Uncle Sam wants enough ol these quarters to house lour million men . That means 20 million pine trees are needed. Forest fires make our job harder. Don ' t give a fire a chance to slow us up .
By WALTER DYAL
Director of Forestry
W ITH the increased drafting of man-power for this war comes the incr~ased drafting of trees. Lumber coming in advance of man-power is preparing places for our fighting forces to live and train.
Up to the beginning of this year it is esti mated, according to "American Forests," our war effort called for over six billion feet of wood. During 1942 the outlook is that hetween twelve and fifteen billion feet will be needed. The end of the year will see an "allout" from the forests of eighteen to twenty billion feet of wood in one form or anther.
"American Forests" further states, assuming the content of the average tree to be 1,000 board feet- a figure low for the West but high for the East-eighteen million trees will have to be drafted for the winning of this war, and if at the end of the year we have an armed force of four million men, the forest contribution to their housing, equipment, and maintenance will be at the rate of about five trees per man.
Forests in the State of Georgia are making an all-out contribution in furnishing their quota of timber towards the future safe-guard of our nation.
Landowners should utilize the butts and tops of their trees by selling for pulpwood, fence posts, or cutting for fuel wood. With curtailed use of fuel oil and a threatened shortage of transportation facilities for hauling coal, fuel will be badly needed. By prop
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er utilization of tops and butts, the danger of fire and disease is greatly reduced. Good logging practices should b e observed, being careful to avoid damage to standing timher and young growing stock.
ational defense efforts are making ever-increasing demands upon our natural resources and our forests are one of the most important of all natural resources. With increased drain upon our forests and the uncertainty of the duration of this emergency, it is necessary that we make an effort to protect and perpetuate our forests and through close utilization, divert all forest products into channels of national defense, thereby hastening a satisfactory termination of our present emergency.
Each American soldier properly housed will cost our woodlands five trees. Horace "Oliver (felt) ol Clarkesville and Sergeant William B<!/1, ol Atanfa and stationed at Fort McPherson , are but a couple ol the boys the U. S. will not fail
OUTDOOR GEORGIA Ma:r 1942

State Plans To Distribute 75,000 Day-Old Quail This Summer . .

By BEVERLY BURCH
T HE State Division of Wildlife is chan gin g the manner of distributing quail from the Game Farm this summ er.
Last seaso n approximately 40,000 eggs were given to fanners, sportsmen,. 4-H clubs and school children who had suitable land on which to release birds. Most recipients used bantam hens to hatch th e eggs and, while the outcome was relatively successful, the Division i convinced that it has a better program which will result in more birds in the fields next fall.
All eggs this season are to be hatched at the Farm in large, modern incubators and day-old chicks will be distributed. Ap proximately 1,500 pairs of birds have been mated off at the Farms and placed in lay ing pens. The females are just now getting down to the seri ous jobs of producing eggs and within several weeks the peak will be reached.
However, as fast as they are laid, they are collected, otherwise Mrs. Bobwhite would give in to her maternal instinct and begin setting as soon as 12 or more of the thimblesize eggs had accumulated. But with her nest robbed constant!y, she dauntlessly continues to produce, ever hopeful that she finall y will gather enough to make a setting. Doubtless she often wonders what becomes of her eggs but her determination to have a family doesn't allow her to give up until the end of the laying season, usually early in September.
This summer, with increased quail stock at the Farm, the Division hopes to distribute some 75,000 young birds. However, it will be the last of June or early in July before the first distribution of chicks will be available and the appeal for patience is made since every one cannot be served at once.
Meanwhile, the applicant can be making his advance preparations. First of all , he must have suitable land on which to release the birds. It is most desirable that lespedeza, benne, partridge peas, sesbania, or

other quail food be provided and adequate cover must be available. The applica nt mu t a sure the Divi sion , also, that he will not hunt o r all ow anyo ne else to hunt the land for a full year after the quail a re released. In this way, the new crop will have opportunity to reproduce before it is shot into.
SECOND, the applicant mu st provide a brooder, which is approved b y the Division, for the day-old chicks. During their first few weeks, quail are as delicate as human babies and one night without protection from damp or chilly air usually is enough to finish them. Consequently, unless the applicant m eets this prer equi-

print and to make an estimate on the co t. Th e latter depend s, of co urse, on the amo unt of material the builder has on hand and on local prices.
Even thou gh there is an avai lable brooder on the farm , the quail-raiser ca nn ot use it if it has been occ upied by chickens at a former time. Chickens are the ca rriers of diseases which are fa tal to quail and thu s the two mu t be kept absolutely separated . Sin ce it is almost impossible to clean the chicken brood er adeq uately, the Division ca nnot approve the use of such an arrangement.
Many 4-H and FFA boys and girls are constructing brood er s as . a group project. The cost to the individual is extremely small and b y raising

This ty pe p en will accomodate 50 young quail and can be constructed at little cost. When the door at the end af th e pen is raised, the youngsters can go inside to the brooder which protects from the chilly night air and rain .

site with an approved brooder, the Division will be unable to supply him with young quail.

the birds on a ~ommunity basis, the work is light on every one.

Blueprints for constructing the brooder may be obtained from the Division of Wildlife, State Capital. The local Wildlife Ranger, Future Farmer of America teacher, or Agricultu ral Agent will be glad to give advice on how to follow the blue-

Pets should not be made of the q uail, and they must be released before they are ad ult birds. Seven to eight weeks old is the best time as they are strong enough then Lo survive and old enough to learn to take care of themselves in the wild.

OUTDOOR GEORGIA May 1942

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By JOE sTEARNS

,l CTIONS of wild animals often upset the. apple~art of sane reason-
f t ing. Wildlife experts spend years stud ymg ammals and then run
into something that knocks all of their c onstructed logic into a cocked hat.

up at all tim es s impl y because a new neighbor a mile o r so away moved in with a co uple of fox hounds. So Fox y - who has two dogs fo r playmates- must be penn ed up so that two other dogs won 't chew hi s hide up.

For example, Ross Hudson, of Vidette, owns a pet fox that plays with his dogs. When his dogs run off into the woods to go rabbit hunting, the fox trots right along with them. When the dogs jump a rabbit, the fox joins the chase and usually is the one to catch the rabbit. When the hunt is over the fox and his dog companions return home toge the r , cuddl~ up in a shady spot and rest-all piled up

Foxy recently celebrated hi s first birthda y. Some boys in Metter

discovered a fox den a year ago and captured fiv e fox puppies. They

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gave Mr. Hudso n one of them. He fed the pup on a bottle of milk. Foxy

slept in the ho use and th e famil y never had an uneasy moment. In

additi on, hi s co nduct was co mm endable and his persona!" cleanlin ess

was astoni shing.

Mr. Hudso n 11 ould never part with Foxy but he wouldn 't give a

together.

plugged dime for another one like him. Just because he is a fo x and

This sort of thing doesn 't make sense to the student of wildlife. In

maybe he has never so much as suspected it- Foxy is plenty trouble.

the first place and according to the general scheme of things laid down

In one in lan ce he was strolling about the farm and was spo tted by a

in Nature's program- the dogs should be chasing the fox .

r-----,=---- ------, neighbor who ran like blazes to get his gun. The farm er came

Still the fox is a member of the canine famil y. And the fox

running back up the trail shoutin g " Fox, Fox! " and prepared to

is a carnivorous animal, but this pet fox likes hi s vegetables

blast the animal into Kingdom come. He ran into Mr. Hudson.

and even cornbread. About the only thing that identifies him

who calmed him down a nd assured him all was well. The man

with the fox family is his inherited taste for birds and chick-

co uld not believe his eyes when Hud on whistled and Fox y came

ens. Mr. Hudson has to keep an eye on his chickens or Foxy

trottin g up to him and lea ped into his arms.

will satisfy his pangs of hunger with a Plymouth Rock. But when Foxy has had plenty to eat he pays no attention to the chickens, even though they walk only a step or two away from him.

Even strangers can walk right up to Foxy and pat his head. However, the presence of strangers make Foxy nervous and he will pace to and fro. When he

Foxy is handy for quail hunting. His keen nose

is with the home folks he remains calm.

locates the birds. Mr. Hudi>on places a leash on him
and they walk right up to a covey of birds.
And to Sllp arlother Mr"ckey Finn into the rules that ~govern wild animals, Foxy now has to be placed in a cage and must be tied

Mfor~.dHoufdsFoonx'sy

yoog daug hter . H1bops into h

is er

very lap

for some pots on bideen little head

However, pet or no pet, most people wh o extend a ha nd to pel a fox are not sure they will draw back a whole hand. Petting animals has the same un certainly as tickling the rear legs of a stubborn Missouri mule. You never know what will happen.

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J - Wake up, pall 2 - This 4foxy, a pet owned by Ross
Hudson, of Vidette. 3 -~r. Hrl.son holds his year old pet.

4 - Here is Foxy with his "-o rab bit dog companions.

He isn't biting Mr. Hudson,;, is just playing, but a fox

is capable of playing mig roug h. 5 - Such curiosity.

He hopped up on the hood of this car to see w hat it is

all about. 6 - This lox will lot right o ut ol your hand.

Others of his kind will eof tour hand rig ht ofl. Mister,

you sure do have 11 lot of <onfrdence in that animal.
7 - Those chickens don't kn if but they are only o meal

on the hoof lor " fox . Seltof of Mr. Hudson's ch ickens

tog,,. hove disappeared. Thre 9Q'"??? 8 - They're pols. They

hunt together ond P/CJy

er.

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Conse(\/ation Please

(1) Tall, steel towers in various parts of the state are used to
a. observe the constellations
b. provide a ref u g e abo ve t h e flames in time of fire .
c. provide a means of watching for l a w -violators .
d . detect fires in the vicinity .

(2) From the standpoint of geologic time the oldest section of Georgia is the area in which one of the following cities is located.

a. Rome.

d. Albany.

b. Savannah.

e. Cordele.

c. Atlanta.

(3) Besides their regular diet of fi sh ih~. terrible-;awed snapping turtle 1s fond of and will eat quantities of

a . earthworms.

c. moss.

b. mulberries.

d. may-flies.

(4) Which of the following fish are considered " game" fishes.

a. bream.

d. white bass.

b. chub.

e. pacific salmon.

c. grayling.

f. hog sucker.

(5) The largest salamander in the south attains a length of two feet . Besides bE:ing called a "mud dog" it is called a
a. stump-knocker. d. side-saddle. b. belly-whacker. e . hell-bender.
. c. gully-whopper.

(6) Coal, of which some is found in north-west Georgia, was deposited or formed by the
a . crystallization of molten minerals.
b. compressed charcoal from ancient fires.
c. organic remains of primitive animals.
d. transformation of ancient swamp flora .
e. changing of large bodies of crude oil.

(7) When a fish-hook is deeply imbedded in ones flesh the proper procedu~=e is to
a. try to act nonchalant and forget it.
b. draw it back out.
c. cut it out with a sterilized knife.
d. rub raw permanganate into the wound.
e. stick the point out, clip the barb off, and withdraw.
(Answers on Page 17)

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Smith and Autry Win Top Honors
Among Rangers
Another type of war is going fu ll blast. Georgia 's wildlife rangers a re maki ng life miserable and freedom uncertain for violators.
Ranger J. N. Autry, who works
DeKalb, Fulton and Cobb Counties, shares top honors for the month of April with Cha rlie Smith , of Homerville, for clamping down the lid. Autry turned in a long list of cases against violators and action in the courts will take place soon.
Ranger Smith confi scated a total of 4,800 feet of gill nets and grabbed a total of 10 men who were operating the nets. In several of the cases made by Smith, violators paid stiff fi nes in the Lanier Coun ty courts.
Other Rangers who have been making it " hot" for violators include : D. C. Paris, of Cedartown ; W. R. P erkins, of Mt. Zion; Arthur Wilson, of Valdosta ; Eugene Futch, of Richmond Hill; T . W. Long, of Ludiwici ; Robert Singleton, of Clarksville ; Luke Chester, of R o b e rt s t ow n ; Charlie Cook, of Cooledge and C. A. Rabun , of Pavo. Good work, men.
A Fisherman's Prayer
Dear lord , whe n Gabriel blows his bia s' A nd I come home to re st at last, Don' t me a sure me for harp and wi ng s, But let me have instead t hese th ings: So me tackle; and a rod and ree l; A pai r of waders and a cree l; A gu shi ng frothy glacial st re am; A q uiet lake by which to dream; An a ng el pa l wit h whom to angle; Mag ic lines that will not tangle; And g rant me leave, with fingers crossed , TO LIE ABOUT THE FISH I LOST!
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If 0. 0. Mor ri s of Br inson has witnesses to vo uch fo r his feat, he may have won a prize or establi shed a reco rd for the yea r. Recently, fishing at the po wer dam on Spring Creek in So uth west Georgia, he caught a 19-pound rockfi sh. One of the ga mest a nd fin est eating of all fish. The rock is none to co mmon in Georgia water-s and where that gra ndd ad had been h idin g all this time is a mystery to Southwest Georgia anglers. He says it took h im 30 minutes to la nd the whopper.
B y R a n ger Harvey Pace, of Iron City.
With eight live minn ows, Gene Elrod of Co rn eli a go t eight stri kes in Dick's Creek, a feeder of Lake Burton in orth Georgia, and landed five pretty bass.
Ran ger L. B. D a lto n , of Ba ldwin.
Frank Hai le, of R utledge is mighty careful these days how he makes a wager with Mrs. Haile. A tru e fisherman , if there ever was one, Mrs. H. decided she'd do a little fi shing in Rutledge Lake after a heav y rain . Mr. Haile tried to Jissuade her ar>d as a parting shot when she started out, he bet that she would n't catch a thing and pro mised, " I 'll eat all you do get toda y RAW." When she returned with a beauteous eight-po und bluecat that evening he had little to say but she didn 't forget the wager . His supper menu included a small chunk of raw bluecat.
R a n ger J e rry Bond, of Boga rt.
T. R. Spivey of Swainsboro somehow just didn 't look as though he had such a successful da y when he came rowing in on McKennie's pond recently. Out checking licenses, I offered sympath y and said, " Guess they just weren't biting toda y, were they ?"
" Oh, fairly well- and when they do, I always get them," said Mr. Spivey, and held up a bea utiful string of 14 la rge-mouth bass.
Ranger B. W. Hall, of Swa insboro.
Seems like some deer in this territory are about like the celebrated mule which j ust didn't give a . . . you-know-what. After a bad storm a buck deer ran into a sagging power line near Tate Moun tain Estates and was electrocuted.
Range r Guy 1\feWhorte r , of J asp e r.
OUTDOOR GEORGIA May 1942

(/)o69Jt BY THE

This is a faithful and lo ng used method of obtaining power the cheapest way . Eva Ryder holds out her hands lor a few drops of that cool mountain water. Belly Ryder and Juanita Lowery (in rear) are fascinated as the huge wheel turns on and on.

YOU don't see as man y of these old mills as you did several years ago. It seems the mills are giving way to new and more modern meth ods.
Still there is a set-up that provides plenty of power to grind corn and wheat. 1t is simple to operate and effec-

tive. The flume delivers something like 900 gallons of water per minute to whirl the huge wheel.
This old mill stands near Ellijay and even some of th e old-ti mers can't remember when it was built. Some say it stood up through the Civil War days. The mill is a rough looking affair but it gets the work done and that is what counts.
Man y years ago mills such as this could be found in all parts of Georgia. In another decade or perhaps two, sightseers will go many miles to take pictures of an old mill. Of course, it is a holdover from another age, but the presence of that giant wheel doing its work is a pleasant, soothing sight that adds new beauty to any rustic surrounding.
There is an overshot mill wheel on the road between Blairsville and Yo ung Harris that is used to produce power suppl ying electricity for industry and homes. The mill is well taken care of and should be with us for many years. This probably is the most photographed old mill wheel in Georgia. Thousands of cameras have clicked to register this mill for future reference.

Do wn this long flum e, which leads from o mounta in stream, flows 900 gallons ol water per minute to turn a giant wheel ol industry.
OUTDOOR GEORGIA Ma y 1942

UNI TD STATES SAVINGS BONDS
A.~DSTAMPS

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J- The dogwood came out in al

of its glory lat e in April and S'9hts lod Bud' or Judas Tree. Its

-ucn' as this could be found in tft(lfl(

~~ odds much to Georgia's co7lor
along stole highways. -

parts of the state. 2 - Peach b/ossa"' >y Georgians who enjoy frequent

And what a beautiful sight it was ~ into the mountains use the

around Fort Valley. 3 - Bur ( /or'." '<iendron blooms as a weather

is a favorite for many when d ' to decide just the right time
bursts into bloom . 4 - ProffY ~ ~1 into mo untains. It generally Ryd er, o I Ell'.l.OY makes 0 beoul~ h 'b''" when the Rhodos are in
picture covered wr.th brr'd0 1 wrf41 IIlo' ohm. 8-This flowder gardebn 1 11 bloo"' '' ed by dogwoo may e
which at th e time was '" u soO on 0 drive down Ponce de Leon

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Mountain decorate

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.l.llonta. 9-This peach tree to look a lot better r.n

is a

lure was taken last spring of yog 01 so with big luscious peaches

State Park .

11ce ol those blossoms. J0 -

8/ack Haw and sometimes

Slag Bush.

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POTTERS EXHIBIT WARES IN ATLANTA SHOW

By W. CAREY HANSARD

W HE the Georgia state-wide clay products exhibition opens in

Atlanta at Sears Roebuck May 4 it will be a kind of "Grand Opera" for

those interested in the grand art and

industry of Ceramics. The show will

remain open until June.

The show has won the approval

and interest of Zack D. Cravey, Com-

missioner of atural Resources. Captain Garland Peyton, State Director

of the Division of Mines, attaches

much importance to the exhibit since

Georgia raw materials are used and will increase in value and uses in the

ceramic industry - the fifth largest

industry in America.

Exhibits will come from Georgia

public schools, colleges, potters, man-

ufacturers and those interested in pot-

tery and elay products. It is the first

show of its kind ever held in the

state.

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llems promised for "the display in-

clude; diaramas, exhibits of raw ma-

terials and equ ipment; art potteiy

made by schoo ls a rti sts, roadside and

commercial potter s; dinnerware, kitchenware, structural clay products

to include fire-brick, building brick,

and tile and various oth er products.

Here are sponsors and organizations taking an active part in the

show :

A tlanta Public Schools: Dr. H.

Reid Hunter, Supt. of High Schools.

Girls High School: Miss Katherine

Comfort, Chairman of Committee.

Miss May Kluttz on Show Arrangements. Commercial High School: Miss Montgomery. Tech High School: Professor Albert A. Lacour. Bass ]unior High School: Miss Frances Stewart. Hoke Smith Jr. High: Mrs. Mary Beacom, Mrs. Mary Fluker. Joe Brown Jr. High School: Miss Mary Rose,nblatt , Miss May Holder. O'Keefe Jr. High School: Mrs. Paty Mann, Miss eola McDavid. Atlanta Elementary Schools: Miss Elise Boyleston, Supervisor, Mrs. Pat Cravey, Assistant Supervisor.
Department of Natural Reso urces: Commissioner Zack Cravey; Division of Mines, Mining and Geology : Capt. Garland Peyton, Director. Ceramic Engineering Department, Georgia Tech , Atlanta : Prof. Lane Mitchell, Head; Prof. Charles Wysong. University of Georgia, Art Department Athens: Professor Lamar Dodd, Head; Professor Alan Kusmicki, Professor Earl McC utchen . Georgia State College for Women, Milledgeville. Gainesville High School, Gainesville, Professor George Kinz y. Macon Public Schools, Professor Marshall Dougherty, Sculptor.
Julian Harris, Sculptor, Atlanta. Fri tz Zimmer, Sculptor, Atlanta. Fritz Orr Clubs, Atlanta. Sears Farmers Market, C. H. Bishop, Manager. Bauer Pottery Co., Inc., Atlanta, J . H. Brutsche, Pres. Georgia Art Pottery, W. A. Gordy, Cartersville. Englecraft Pottery, A. V. Lawton , Brunswick. Carling Tile Company, R. E. Lowrance, Supt., Macon. B. Mif-

flin Hood Brick Co., B. Mifllin Hood Pres., Atlanta. Chattahoochee Brick Co., Atlanta. Clare-Burns Brick Co., Atlanta. Merry Bros. Brick & Tile Co., Augusta. Cherokee Brick Co. Macon. Babcock & Wilcox Co., Au: gusta. Georgia Vitrified Brick & Clay Co., Augusta. Atlanta Ceramic Laboratories, Atlanta.
Exhibits will be arranged in a modern pattern featuring a two-tone color display scheme. Demonstrations in pottery making such as forming on the potters wheel; casting special shapes of pottery and dinnerware; firing pottery by glazes and designs; and making porcelain enamel ware.
Since Georgia is the leading producer in the world of kaolin (white clay ) , a minature kaolin mine will be shown.
Experts in ceramics agree the exhibit is timely now that so many new and vital products to National Defense are being made from clay. Most important among the ceramic products in war use now are spark plugs, radio insulators, dinnerware for Army and Navy, and bomb cases.
Georgia has a bright and promising future in the general scheme of ceramics since our state abounds with high grade clays, proximity of
other necessary materi >s, cheap fuel,
climatic advantages and splendid transportation facilities.
Even if yo u are only mildly interested in pottery, yo u will enjoy the show and the admission is free.

Girls High School, of Atlanta is out to win prizes for their exhibit in the Ceramic show which starts May 4th. Sue Meaders (left) and Julane Burt are glazing some of their work which will appear in the exhibit.

The class in pottery at Girls High School has plenty of splendid talent and all of the girls enjoy the work. Gray Baker is sh own fin ishing up a vase while Nell Johnson admires an elephant she just completed.

@j IThe MAIL BOX I

The Worm Turns!

Juanita Mahaffey sends in this one which is worth passing along:
" You know what happened to the patriotic worm? He joined the apple

core !

* * * Loosing Altitude

Mack Rozier, of Bruns wick, is heard from again and this time he asks, "You know what was wrong with the cross-eyed school teacher? "-She couldn't control her

pupilS-."
* * * Drafted?

Ernie Jenkins, Brunswick aviator, starts 'em off with this one: "You know what's become of diddy-warditty? Hold on now ... Diddy went

to war.
* * * From the Note Book

No larger than a sparrow, the elf owl is the smallest owl in North America ... The tongue of a woodpecker is longer than the bird's head .. . If the Grand Coulee Dam were a hollow shell, it would hold every person in the United States... The hroadbill swordfish is a deep sea dweller and but for its weakness for sunbaths, it might never be caught commercially ... The thresher shark kills its prey with its tail . . . From one shark's stomach came "7 leggins, 47 buttol)s, 3 leather belts and nine shoes." What a bill of fare! . : . Poison ivy can be prevented by. use of 10 % sodium perborate mixed with ordinary vanishing cream. Rub on before going into the woods and it will protect you against the limbs and leaves of poison ivy . . . Deer are ruminants and chew their cuds

the same as cows ... A set of John James Aubudon's elepha.nt folio "The Birds of America" . would cost about

$15,000 today.
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Credit for many of the fea lure stories appearing each month in Outdoor Georgia goes to the readers of the magazines and to the state

rangers who have J,elped us locate wildlife oddities. If there is something unusual in the way of wildlife near your home, please drop us a card and tell us about it.
But for Ranger R. E. Spears, of Augusta, this publication would nevey have the story and pictures of the fish- ing dog which appeared in the April issue. Let us hear from you.
* * * Picking Up the Loos~ Ends Many young fi~h live largely on
phytoplankton, floating microscopic plants which are classed as algae. And to think-you can get a box of fish food at the dime store and not be worried over those names. . . . Fox often will kill their young if disturbed by strangers. Sure-animals are emotionaL The mink, if frightened, while in a breeding pen, will eat its whole litter.... Russian olive is neither exclusively Russian nor is it an olive. It is a plant from Southern Europe and Western Asia which is important in its use for soil conservation planting, p~:>.rticularly in the western part of the U. S.... In the Orient a kind of sherbet is made from Russian olive and in the U. S. about 25 kinds of animals, including the grosbeaks, robins, squirrels, waxwings and cardinals, find its olives a delicacy.
LEAVE 'EM ALONE
Sometimes small bears and deer are found alone in the Woods. A fawn, for example, may seem to be deserted, but mama deer knows well where it is and < she will return to it at feeding time.

STATE OF OKLAHOMA GAME AND FISH COMMISSION
OKLAHOMA CITY

Mr. Joe L. Stearns Managing Editor Outdoor Georgia 422 State Capitol 7\tlanta, Georgia

April 23, 1942

Dear Mr. Stearns:
I have intended for some time past to write you and thank you for sending me "Outdoor Georgia." The April edition, which has just reached me, is one of your best, in my opinion, and I have read it with much int~;rest, I can assure you.
I realize that a great deal of time, effort, and hard work must go into such a publication, and you are certainly giving your readers--both residents and non-residents of Georgia- a worthwhile and interesting picture of your State's outdoor beauties.

Sincerely yours,

JAMES W. McMAHAN, Chairman
Oklahoma Game and Fish Commission

SOME FARM, EH KID!
The most spectacular and important furanimal enterprise in the United States is silver-fox farming, which yielded 6,000 pelts in 1923 and increased the output to 350,000 pelts by 1940.

ANSWERS
Conservation Please
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KNOW YOUR GEORGIA!
OUTDOOR GEORGIA keeps you informed on wildlife activities and natural ~esources in our state. You can get 15 exciting issues for $1.00. Send m your name today! 422 State Capitol, Atlanta, Ga.
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O UTDOOR GEORGIA May 1942

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STATE BANS TAKING OF POLLUTED OYSTERS ON COAST IN STEP TO REVIVE INDUSTRY

By JAKE FINCH
GEORGIA has applied the fourwheel brakes to halt the taking of polluted oysters from areas in Brunswick and Savannah. In doing so, the state has taken steps to give the oyster industry a shot in the arm which is expected to pull the business back into high gear.
Large areas along the seacoast are polluted by city sewerage and industrial waste. Oysters were being taken from these areas and canned or sold

ardson Creek ; Herb River and St. Augu stine Creek with all their tributaries.
AREA No. 2. All oyster produ cing areas so uth of Highway Bridge running between Brunswick and St. Simons Island, on the Frederica and Mackays Rivers; th ence, following a northerly direction along the westerly shore of Mackays River to the cut-oft' between Mackays River and Back River; the so utherly boundary of this area being the northerly shore of Jointers Creek ; also J ekyl Creek between J ekyl Sound and Brunswick River; from Jointers to Brunswick River ; from the Brunswick, the South Brunswick and the Turtle Rivers ; from Plantation Creek, Clubb Creek, St. Simons Sound and Mackays,

J ones Creek, Village Creek, Mosquita Creek, Black bank ~iver, 1>ostell Creek, and

all streams, estuanes and marsh lands con.

nected to or adjacent th ereto.

The provisions or this order will remain

in force and effect until such time as con.

dition s warrant their rescension by this

authority.

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Violators of any of the provisions of this

regulation shall be prosecuted as for a

mi sdemeanor under th e authority of law

Proclaimed and ordered this, the 27th

day of March, 1942, to be effective after

havin g been published once a week for

four consec utive weeks in a newspaper of

general circulation in Tidewater, Georgia,

as provided in Georgia Code 1933, Section

by oyster bootleggers.
The Division of Wildlife has no authority to close these areas on ac-

Frederica and Back Rivers to a poin t designated above as the northerly boundary line of this area; also Hampton River,

45- 109. ZA CK D. CRAVEY, Director
Division of Wildlife, State of Georgia.

count of pollution; however, there

is an exi:;ting. law which permits the state to close the areas to conserve the supply. This has been done. The oyster~ in the polluted areas will be transferred to clean waters and be used as stock i.n a re-planting. program being undertaken.

WATER: Most Valuable Natural Resource
(Continued from Page 5 )
more water to your pores. That's why yo u get thirsty. The same is true of plant life. One large tree will use as much water per day as an average family, or a herd of a dozen cattle.

.

Authorities over the state have

Water pressure is like piling up bricks. The deeper you go in water the

been high in their praise of the ac- heavier the pressure- the more bricks you have piled up. Water weighs

tion taken. Many are convinced it about eight and one-half pounds per gallon.

.

will be the re-birth of what once was

There is a valuable gageing station on the Etowah River near Cartersville.

a great oyster ' industry -in Georgia.

This station i's more important since a dam is being constructed and engi-

Here is proof of the action:

neers want to know how much water they can expect to store up behind the

State Capitol,

dam when it is ready.

Atlanta, Georgia.

Stream gagers have a rule-they must repeat these words

Under authority of Acts of the General Assembly of Georgia, 1924, page 112

before leaving a gageing station: "Pen writing, clock ticking, valves open." Inside the station there is a water level recorder

(Georgia Code 193.'3, Section 45-109), which authorizes the Commissioner of Game and Fish, now the Director of Wildlife, to open and close certain designated lands or waters for huntin g or taking of fi sh or oysters

run by a clock. A pen scratches out the accurate water level with the rise and fall of the river every hour of the day. The clock will run this faithful device for 75 days without attention.

when same is necessary for the conservation of the supply, and Georgia Code 1933, Section 45-106, granting authority to adopt

The average person might say: "Well, what does all of this mean to me?" Simply this-each time you turn on an electric light or get a drink of water

rules and regulations, having for their purpose the conservation and propagation of fish and game, it is, therefore, proclaimed and ordered that the taking or removing of oysters from any of the beds or

-yo ur water checkers have first surveyed the water conditions to insure you maximum satisfaction.
Water supply is not just something we need- it is something we cannot do without. Hong Kong and Singapore might still be in Allied hands if their

areas hereinafter described is prohibited

water supply had not failed.

for any purpose except same may be taken and removed for propagation purposes un -

The water table of any section is that level in the earth

der the supervision of the Chief Inspector

above which it is dry and below which it is full of water. Wells

of the Coastal Fisheries, to be replanted in the beds and waters of this State.
AREA No. L All areas in Georgia north of latitude 32 degrees, as show n on maps Nos. 440 and 1241, issued by the U. S. Coast and Geode tic Survey. This comprises

go dry because the water table has dropped down lower than the well. A spring is an intersection where the water table and the land surface meet. In wet weather the table is high and in dry weather it drops. All plant life pulls in water from the ta hie. It is simple to realize that a swamp is where the water table

all the waters of the Wilmington River, with its tributaries to a point approximately one quarter of a mile south of wh ere

is higher than the ground level. The Cartecay River near Ellijay was 'checked. Its flow of water was 190

Turner's Creek joins Wilmington River ; Tybee River from a point slightly north of where it joins Oyster Creek ; al so Shad River ; also Oyster Creek ; Lazarette Creek with its tributaries ; Turner Creek ; Rich-

million gallons per day. The watershed for this river covers 135 squ'are miles. In brief, the water that fall s on 135 square miles of land seeps and trickles into this river.
Gee! Makes yo u kinda thirsty, eh?

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OUTDOOR GEORGIA May 1942

FISHING SEASONS AND

MAY

STREAM Rock Creek lake and Drainage

OPEN

AREA

May 2, 3, 6, 9 , 10, 13, 16,

17, 20, 23, 24, 27, 30, 31 Blue Ridge

Noontootly Creek Drainage

May 14

....... Blue Ridge

Montgomery Creek Drainage

May 7, 28 . .

. . Blue Ridge

Jones Creek Drainage

May 21

~ Blue Ridge

Dukes Creek Drainage ~~~ -~-

May 7, 14, 21, 28 -~

Chatthaoochee-

Chestatee

Chattahoochee Riv. & Spoilcane Cr. Drainages May 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17,Chattahoochee-

23, 24, 30, 31

Chestatee

Moccasin Creek Drainage

May 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17,

23, 24, 30, 31 ~~-

lake Burton

Wildcat Creek Drainage ~

--~- May 6, 13, 20, 27

lake Burton

Jacks River (except Rough Creek ) ~

May 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17 Cohutta

Conasauga River and Rough Creek

May 23, 24, 30, 31

Cohutta

JUNE

Rock Creek lake and Drainage Noontootly Creek Drainage

June 3, 6, 7, 10, 13, 14, 17, 20, 21 , 24, 27, 28 ~-- Blue Ridge
~~~ ~ . Jun~ 4, 25 .... -~-~ .......~ ... Blue Ridge

Montgomery Creek Drainage ~~ Jones Creek Drainage -----~~ ~--

-~- ---- June 18 ~~~--~ ----~---~-.~.~-~ Blue Ridge -----~ ~- June 11 ......... ~~-----~~~~~- Blue Ridge

Chattahoochee Riv . & Spoilcane Cr . Drainages June 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21, Chattahoochee-

Smith Creek Drainage ..... _

27, 28 --~ -~---~-~ - --- ~ ------- Chestatee ~~-~ June 4, 11 , 18, 25 -~~ ~ Chattahoochee-

Chestatee

Moccasin Creek Drainage ...

~- .. ~ June .6 , 7, 13, 14, 24

lake Burton

Wildcat Creek

~.... June 3, 10, 17, 20, 21 , 27, 28 ........ --- ..~- lake Burton

Jacks River Drainage (except Rough Creek) ... June 6, 7 , 13, 14, 20, 21 Cohutta

!=onasaugo River and Rough Creek ...

-- - ~ June 27, 28

.. Cohutta

SIZE LIMIT: The minimum size limit for all trout is 7 inches. CREEL LIMIT: The maximum catch in any .day ~nd the maximum number in possession for one person shall not exceed 10 fish of any one or all species.
FEES AND MANNER OF FISHING : Fishing permits shall be $1.00 per person per day or $10.00 for season permit. Permits shall be valid on any stream or lake during the regulated season for such water.
Permits shall not be valid unless accompanied by a regular Stole Fishing license. Children under sixteen year. of age shall be allowed to fish without permit.
Fish shall be taken only with rod and line . Any type of bait or lure, except 8uliimore minnows or goldfish, may be used. Each permittee shall have in use at any one time on the area not more than one rod and line.
PERMITS NECESSARY BEFORE FISHING: Fishermen are required to obtain fishing permits before they begin fishing . Permits can be obtained from the Wildlife Rangers on the areas or they can be obtained from the following addresses:
Division of Wildlife, Stale Capitol, Atlanta, Ga .
Forest Supervisor', U. S. Forest Service, Gainesville, Ga .
District Forest Ranger, U. S. Forest Service, Blue Ridge, Ga .
District Forest Ranger, U. S . Forest Service, Suches, Ga.
District Forest Ranger, U. S. Forest Service, Clayton, Ga.
Wildlife Rangers and patrolmen will be at various road entrances into the areas and permits may be obtained from them . However, to avoid delay in getting started, fishermen should obtain permit! as far in advance as possible .
Persons found fishing without permits will be liable for legal adion .
FISHING TIME: Fishing shall be permitted only between the hours of sunup and 7 :00 P.M . of the same day, eastern war time.
CREEL CENSUS : Each permittee will be furnished a franked Government postal card, addreued to the Forest Ranger, on the back of which is a form for recorded pertinent information in regard to his catch . Each permittee will be requested to fill out the card and leave it with Rangers or patrolmen or mail it (no postage required) . The information obtained from these cards, if accurately recorded, will be of value in formulating future policies.

OUTDOOR GEORGIA ll1ny 1942

REGULATIONS

Macon's lnclian Mounds

Imagination plays a friendly hand

For one who views the ancient Indian mounds

On Macon 's hills; or seelcs to understand

The treasured trin/cels /eft upon those grounds.

The level surfaces of sun-ba/cecl clay

.

Ar proof that men have labored faithfully

With daily living in their little clay.

One flash of mind, and bro/cen pollery

Is new again; and gaunt, long .buriec/ braves

Leave for a lillie hour, their crowded groves.

But pic/c and shovel clarly mention three Dep-rootecl cultures on that same plateau, Each culture resting with fidelity Upon the one beneath. The subtle flow Of thought seeps questioningly through the
grime 01 centuries, in effort to construct The life and customs of that distant time. The peoples march across the viaduct Of passing years, and there before the eye, Wor/c out their simple lives, and love, and die.

Today men rummage through the fragile bones Of those, especially, who vanished last; They gather brolcen /cnives, and grinding
stonesThe silent symbols of a living past. Here is the council chamber, and the slate Of warriors; and lilce a blaclcenecl ghost Some charred old timbers that recall their fate . There is the spring, and here the trading post. Th years have written on that ancient den, A worthy epitaph to early men.
-Christine Park Hankinson.

SMALL MOUTH BASS LARGE MOUTH BASS BLUE GILL BREAM SHELL-CRACKER BREAM

Live delivery guara nteed. W r ite for prices and info rmatio n .

JAS. H. REEVE,

Calhoun, Ga.

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John Jones Knudsen, skillful trout and bass fisherman from Atlanta, dreams of the opening of the fishing season and of pulling in a big one. Note calendar and alarm clock and fishing togs. All that is needed now is a pretty day. Mr. Knudsen's many friends testify to his ability to rod and reel.
The rapid flow of this beautiful water makes one of Georgia's most delightful mountain streams. This stream is near Ellijay and the cool Sparkling waters is a joy to fishermen. Georgia's North Georgia streams are famous throughout the South and many a Rainbow trout has departed his aquatic home to decorate plates around the dinner table.

!fn CCkis !Issue

Pag e

" It's Great To Be A Geo rgian"

2

Comm ission e r lac k Cra vey

Time to Go Fish ing !

3

March Of Progress

5

Joe Stearns

Dine, Dance and Be Merry -

At Georgia State Pa rks . .

6

Georgia MUST Save Its Forests

7

"So Long . . . Pal " .

8

Conservation Please

8

Can Wildcats Be Tamed ? .

9

Joe Stearns

One of Georgia's Biggest Projects . 10-11
(I n pict ures)

Help Protect O ur Birds! . . . . .

12

C. H. W ha rton

You Tell 'Em

13

Joe Stea rns

Atlanta Woman G rows Own Oranges 14

Amethyst Magic

15

Pat Cooper

Rationing of Fur Coats Unlikely .

17

Fish ing Seasons and Regulations .

19

In The Mail

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When Nature set up the schedule for Natural Resources in various states, it d id not just smile on Georgia-no, Nature must have been in a hilarious and happy mood for our red clay state not only received abundant natural resources but also the necessary conditions fo r these resources to flourish .
Some time ago when I visited Wisconsin, which is considered one of the most advanced states in America in the administration of its resources, I remember looking up at lofty pine trees and remarking to my associates that the pines certainly were beautiful. My Wisconsin friends were justly proud of their trees and deserve much credit for the way they have protected their forest. Still, when they told me that the trees I had admired had taken 60 years to reach full growth I was stunned. The same tree in Georgia would have developed in 12 to 15 years. Severe weather cuts down Wisconsin's growing months while Georgia's mild weather permits almost year around growth.
One official told me, "We are very jealous of your state. If we just had your Okefenokee Swamp, it would be worth several million dollars a year to us. It is perfect to attract thousands of visitors and it is a natural fo r a wildlife santuary." It was my turn to be proud. The Okefenokee Swamp is just one of this state's many natural assets.
W isconsin has almost unlimited money with which to develop its natural resou rces. Georgia's purse strings permit only a modest flow of money .for development work. In view of this handicap, Georgia must be guided by a long-range program designed to build gradually and firmly . You r Department of Natural Resources is forever looking for new and better methods. We want modern equipment and tools with which to do our work and I am happy to report- we are making progress in our wildlife and fish propagation, our re-forestation work and our mining developments.
The day is not too far distant when Georgia will lead the nation in Natural Resources. Few states have our gift of climate, and how many states have huge, rolling mountains in one section and flat prosperous lands in another. And too, we have coastal fishing, beautiful resorts by the ocean and the list is too long for this space.
I am greatly encouraged at the outlook for this state. The day will come when I can look back with pride to know I played a part in getting Georgians to realize their wonderful resources and to conserve and develop them .
No other section could take the place of Georgia in my heart. I despai r at the thought I might live in any other state. It would be like placing a goldfish on a Persian rug . Like thousands of others1 am sold on this sta te and prepared to give all I have to make it the best fishing and hunting grounds in America. It will be doneand the sooner the better.

JUNE, 1942

OUTJD)(Q)(Q)lR?. G IEOlR?.GIT A

Volume X, No. XII

ZACK D. CRAVEY, Editor

JOE l. STEARNS, Ma nag ing Ed itor

PAT COOPER, A ssociate Editor

BEVERLY BURCH , Featu re Editor

P ubl ished mo nt hl y by The Georgia Department of Natura l Resou r ces , 422 State Capitol, Atlanta, Ga., in t he interest of Geor g ia w ildlife a n d for fishermen , hunte rs , nature Jovers and conservation of natural resou rces . Yearly subscr iption s to U n ited States and its possessions. a n d Ca nada, 75 cen ts; ot her countries, $1.50 . Subscr iber s must notify us of change of add r ess four weeks in advance of next p ublication date, giving both old a n d n ew address . Con ten ts of t h is magazine must n ot be repri n ted with ou t per missio n . T h is m agazi ne is glad to r eceive photos. drawings , stories and articles dealing w it h outdoor subj ects. but cannot guarantee r etu rn of u nso li cited contri bution s n or inRure allai nst t heir toss. Contribution s not accom panied by sufficient postage w ilt not be ret urned. Enter ed as 2nd class matter August 31,
1940 . at t he pos t office at Atla n ta, under the Act of March 3. 1879.

ANGLERS GET TOGETHER' ON JAUNTS TO HELP CONSERVE GASOLINE, TIRES

oFFICI ALLY and otherwise the fi shin g season now is open. The lid was lifted Jun e l and there was
that usual grand rush by fishermen to their favorite fis hing holes.
Georgia is blessed with beautiful lakes, rivers, ponds and mountain strea ms and one of the finest fi shing seasons in the past decade is right in front of us. Few states enjoy that pleasant and distinct pleasure of possessing mountain trout streams plus all the other waters fine game fish.
Georgia fishermen, a gang of the best fellows in the world, are going to have to be mighty resourceful this year. The gasoline is pinched down and the problem of getting to favorite fishing waters is acute.
Any fisherman who can realize enough gasoline out of his rationin g card for a fishing trip should by all means invite enough pals to fill up his car. We all are in the same boat. There are no pills yo u can take to cure the fishing fever and yo uld wo uld never forget a neighbor who asked yo u to go along on a fishing trip with him.
There is no point in hauling an empty back seat to good fi shing spots. The seal of fri endship never is more
Who wouldn't like to spend a day doing this kind of fishing? These were caught by Glenn W. Bell, of Atlanta and his partner last season on the Toccoa River in the Chattahoochee National Forest.

Ann Bell, 3 years old, shows a 2 pound crappie caught la st year at Lake Burton . This fish was caught on a broken-bock plug . That's something . . . .
certain than when yo u are wetting yo ur hook and yo ur friends are 'l>'ith yo u.
Hundred s of Georgian s fi sh for the thrill and sport in it. Many have no taste for fish. Let's remember we have a war to win and food plays a great part. Don't waste a single fish. See that you r catch is kept fresh and if you don't want the fish, pass them along to neighbors or friends. Take them to a hospital or an orphanage but don't let a single one go to waste. When you are conservation-minded, you are patriotic and helping Uncle Sam get in a lick at our enemy.
And a note to fathers- don't leave yo ur boy at home. Take him fish ing. Don't be just a dad-your son wants to make a pal out of you also. Give him that chance on yo ur next fi shing trip.
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Useful Georgia Resources
J- Georgia cloy has been worked into useful pots,
plates and jugs of Girls' High School in Atlanta . Here is Louise Maddox taking a pot out of the kiln . 2 - These ore but a few of the uses of good G eo rgia clay . This collection belongs to Cory Hqnsord . 3 - Moria;, Lewis shows Dot Ratchford how to use the mallet to beat Georg ia metal into plates, etc., of Girls High School. 4 - This beautiful body of water is port of the Richmond Hill State fish hatchery. Thousands of fi sh ore token from this pond each season and released in Georgia lakes, streams and rivers. 5 - Hundreds of such signs are scattered ?ver Georgia's protected wildlife management are a s. 6 - 0ne of the Deportment of Natural Resources man y signs which line our hig hw ays . The words on this sign tell the story.

* They Lear To Do .. By Doing
At Henry Ford~s Riehmond Dill Plantation

By JOE STEARNS ttT EARN to do by doing!" Therein lies the secret of
L successful operation of o11 e of the largest projects
in Georgia. It is astonishing what is being done on Henry Ford's Richmond Hill Plantation down below
Savannah. Ford is the own er but it is J. F. Gregory,
superintendent, who keeps th e wheels of this great industry forev er spinning forward.
Most people consider lettuce in the class with pop corn. You chew a lot but you don't get much good out of it. Still salad without lettuce would be dismally undressed. So let tuce, after a fashion, has its place in the gen eral scheme of things. On the Plantation a good many thousands of dollars were spent to reclaim land. That simply means Richmond Hill plantation swamp lands were drained, the rivers backed up and controlled. The bottom land that resulted has proved ideal for farming. So lettuce was planted and plenty of it. Truck load after truck load of lettuce left daily during May. It was sold in markets over the Southeastern states and the market prices were good. So good in fact that the Plantation took in about $1000 a day. Superintendent Gregory expected to clear between $20,000 and $30,000 on the lettuce crop. Gregory says enough lettuce is grown on those reclaimed swamp lands to supply the demand for all of Georgia. Just to figure big scale growing, it might be well to mention that only recently the Plantation sold 100 tons of sweet potatoes to Camp Blanding.
It is some sight to see lettuce as far as you can look. Dozens of workers pick the lettuce and pile it in boxes after which it is taken to
During these perilous cloys os these young locls master the art of welding they ore snapped up in industry engaged in vito/ defense worlc . They ore experts wh e n they leave the Ford industrial school shops
OUTDOOR GEORGIA June 1942

One of the many roods at Richmond Hill Plantation. Ford' s own road machinery is used to keep about 100 miles of such roods in perfect condition .
a washing and culling plant. There it is packed in ice and ready to move into marke t. Li ving co nditions are excellent at Richmond Hill. Workers may rent a beautifu l house wi th two to three bedrooms for as little as $15 a month . But if yo u get on e of these hou ses, it is necessar y to plant a garden. That i~ a rule.
In seaso n, the oyster beds which are carefully cultivated and protected, prod uce hundreds of gallons of splend id oysters and bring in a neat profit.
Harry Ukkleberg, in charge of. experimen tal farming, reports a crop of 500 bushels of rice last year but expects almost to double that mark this year. .Wonder how many people in Georgia knew this state was growing rice?
For those who like can e grinding time, the Plan tation il.' perfect. Grind in g starts in October and lasts right on up to Christmas. Last year 3,000 gallons of cane syrup were turned out.
The soy bean is in great demand. The Plantation pro duced 1000 bushels last year but that will be increased this year.
You can find mustard, broccoli, 20 acres of cabbage, 30 acres of onions and other
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1Jine, 1Jance anJ be _A1erriJ
AT G EORGIA STATE PARKS
1 - You bet, it is one of those old time square dances and there will be a great
many more this summer at Alexander H. Stephens State Park. 2 - A big t me was
had by all. 3-Swing your partners-now circle to the left-yes sir- an old 1ash. ioned square dance, nobody barred, is held at Vogel each Satu rd ay night. It . great fun. Just another feature that brings hundreds of visitors to Vogel eac''
""" year. 4-Hiking and swimming in the mountains at Vogel State Park is a 11 h
/ant for jaded apetites. And the food at '(ogels is splendid. He re is shown a few of the visitors on opening day in the dining room at the Inn .
OVAL-"Fiddling " John Carson waits his turn while AI Walker shoots for a ringer. It's that 9rand old barnyard sport of horse shoes played on the beach at tho lake in Vogel.
BELOW - Ewing Daniel, Superintende nt of Alexander H, Stephens State Park , at Crawfordville, con consider the new
dance pavillion in the pork as a personal monument in honor of his untiring efforts to give the people in his section this splendid building a nd new form of enter. tainment. The Building on t he left is the bath house. The Donee pavillion (Danie l built it himself) on the
right. This pict ure was to ke n only a . few hours be. fore the pavillion officially opened fa the public.


EORGIA Midi
AVE ITS FORESTS



1 - Your Outdoor Georgia photographer climbed to the observation post recently and snapped a picture of a fire several miles away. 2 - Very often people do not con. cern themselves with a forest fire . That is an invitation for disaster. Here is what might happen to your house if you ignore a forest fire in your county. Not much left of what once was a beautiful country home . 3 -This is one of many fire lowers in North Georgia . The State Di vision of Forestry keeps a man at this lookout post day and night. 4 - Big Dan, owned- and picture taken by J. K. Hannon, of Rex, Georg ia, is on point. Those trees in the background are necessary to good quail hunting, And what to do about a forest fire-fight it and fight if some more. Don't stop until every spark is harmless. Georgia must save its forest . Stop fires! 5 -Here is some properly you can buy. If is cheap too. But before the fire swept away those trees, the price was much higher. This is pure and simple waste. Precaution and quick
action would have prevented this destruction .

"So Long ... Pal"

JT wasn't easy last month to say adios to Frank Edmond-
son, Assistant Director of State Parks. Frank is in the Navy and it is Lieutenant Edmondson now. He reported for active Service May 20.

It was a crippling

blow to the Parks Di-

vision the day Frank

packed his seabag and

departed. While it was

a big gain for the

Navy, the state faces

the problem of plug-

ging up a tremendous

gap. Frank, you might say, was

Here is more bad news for Japan . Frank Edmondson goes info active duty in the United States Navy

the favorite son of the fourth

floor in the State Capitol. He was a messenger of good-cheer. On cheerless

days when nothing seems to go right and you feel like you have two left feet

and nothing hut thumbs- Frank comes in with one of those bright sm iles and

a carload of hilarious conversation. Yes sir, the Lieutenant can brush away

clouds of gloom faster and better than just about anybody you ever met.

Everybody was fond of Frank. You just never heard anybody say they didn' t like him. And he is a man possessed of inexhaustible energy. Apparently with a smooth, even stroke Frank could get more work done with his left hand that most of us could with a dozen machines and ten hired hands.
It doesn't seem the same any more. Frank may not miss the Capitol hut the Capitol sure does miss him. His trademark is a big smile and the boys in the avy who work with Frank will find their job much more pleasant.
That strong pillar of wisdom, judgment, acumen, sympathy and friendliness most of us needed is out doing a bigger and better job. Georgia is proud to offer a man of Edmondson's caliber. We don't mind admitting we choked up at our good-byes and back slaps but it wasn't easy for Frank either. We could see determination, great strength of character and courage stamped in the face of the man who, in his bright new Navy officer's uni form, told us 'so long.'
Okay, Uncle Sam, you have a man who will reflect nothing but glory and honor on the Navy. If the Navy wants a job well done, just call in Frank and IT WILL BE DO E. He is that kind.
Good luck fellow! Hurry hack!

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GonseiVation Please !

(1) Which of the following birds occasionally devour smaller birds?

a. shrike

d. kingfisher

b. chuck-wills-widow e. kingbird

c. crow

(2) A wet fly as used by trout fishermen is
a. a fly caught in a cloudburst b. a fly soaked in water and tied on
a hook c. an artificial fly fished beneath the
surface d . the uppermost of two flies on the
same leader

(3) A hog-sucker is a. a blacksnake that suckles sows b. a large black terrapin found on-
ly near salt water c. a fish with an elongated mouth d. the common name given to an
oversized brown trout

(4) Experiments have proven that the

most important thing about a fishing

plug is its

a . shape

c. color

b. size

d. action

(5) Channel catfish may be readily identified by
a . the fact that they always frequent the channel of a stream
b. their absence of scales c. a forked tail d. the reddish eyeball

(6) Snake venom when exposed to the air
a. evaporates slowly b. crystallizes and retains potency
for as long as twenty years c. absorbs moisture and thus loses
much strength d. dries up and loses its power e . relases its poisonous properties in
gaseous form leaving a dry, yellowish residue

(7) Spiders are essential to national defense because
a. the venom of the black widow is used in medical preparation
b. their webs exhibit structural examples for engineering students
c. they catch flies d . their web fibers are used in arma-
ment manufacture

(8) Two of the following birds can move or raise a part or all of the upper portion of thir bill

a. cuckoo b. parrot c. black skimmer

d. woodcock e. green heron

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OUTDOOR GEORGIA /une 1942

?
GERONIMO, A LYNX, TAME AS A LAMB!

J a newsreel recently a scene of some wildcats was

u sed to take some of the wild out of the lynx.

shown. A man with thick leather gloves was trying un-

And it sounds like a perfectly swell short cut

successfully to handle some wildcat kittens and not hav-

to your favorite hospital.

ing much luck. The narrator said, "Wildcats, always dangerous, are an enemy to man and never tamed."

Mrs. Blount tells of giving the cat cod liver oil and calmly tells of it losing its baby teeth for the real McCoy.

There is room for question on that "never tamed." Ask somebody in Georgia's moun-

That- my friends- would be where most of us came in and had to leave.

tains if they ever saw a tamed wildcat or ever heard of a tamed wildcat and you probably will get this answer, "No, sir. And who the dickens would want a tamed wildcat if you could tame it?"

Only once was Geronimo ill. He ate a rubber ball, a sponge and some toys. These were removed by surgery. The cat likes a little water in the tub and loves to splash in it. He is fpnd of celery, although it intoxicates him just as catnip does. Chrysanthemums are his favorite

But whether or not anyone has tamed a wildcat in

flowers.

Georgia, Isabel Blount, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, has

Geronimo disproves the superstition that

tamed a lynx. A lynx is a mighty close relative of a wild-

wild animals will not look a human being in

cat and if anything a lynx

the eye. He watches

would make a wildcat appear

each speaker intently.

a sissy. Lynx or wildcat, both

Who in Georgia would

are fighting fools and killers

care to try to out-

from taw.

stare a wildcat? In the

Mr. and Mrs. Blount purchased the lynx when it was

first place, it would be only a deceitful effort,

but two weeks old. It was one

cause grey hairs and

of two kittens found near

drive a man cock-eyed

Carlsbad Caverns. They named

trying to stare down

it Geronimo, after the famous

a wildcat. No thanks.

Apache chief.

Mrs. Blount says the lynx's

Geronimo traveled for days with Mr. and Mrs. Blount in the car. He was fed milk by means of a baby bottle with an occasional

loyalty is comparable with a dog's. She admits it takes patience to train and romp with a lynx- (how true)-but the reward is the affection of an intelligent, perennial child.

piece of meat. In two

The Blounts say they have

lessons Geronimo was house broken. It required plenty of pa-

This is the business end of a Georgia wildcat. Picture was taken in North Georgia . If a wildcat didn 't have claws and teeth, some of us wouldn't mind trying to tame one.

no doubt but what Geronimo would leap to their defense if attacked. Madam, you

lienee to promote an

have the best reason in the

understanding between owners and animals.

world to have more friends than yo u kn ow what to do

Once Geronimo went into a tantrum and Mr.

with. Can you imagine - bending over, stretching out

Blount firmly grasped the animal by the scruff

your hand to pet a lynx that is 29 pounds of dynamite,

of the neck and the seat of the pants and held

T. .T., brimstone and destruction all rolled up into one

him roughtly against the floor until he ran out

piece of fur?

of steam. That was just one of the methods

I'll stick to Fido. His bark is worse than his bite.

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ONE OF GEORGI

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J- II you work on Henry Ford' s Richmond Hill plantation you can
rent this lovely home for only $l:Sa month . It has three bedrooms . There is one rule you must observe il you live in this houseyou absolutely MUST plant a garden . 2 - These youngsters are in competition with each other in the woodworking shop. They are building model airplane s. In a few years, after they have mastered the art they more than likely will be making the real thing . It is

just one of the many plans of instructions in the Ford Industrial

School. 3 - George Cheaves reaches for one of the many tools

available to the boys in their work . Instructors teach the boys how

to use hundreds of variou s tools. Little wonder these lads turn out

to be experts. 4 - Ford has hundreds of acres of beautiful trees.

These natural asset s are used to make up all of the lumber used at

Richmond Hill . The crates used to ship lettuce and other vegetables

are made in the mill. Even the sawdust is

used to keep mill fires glowing . There is no

such word as wa ste at Richmond Hill .

5 - This foreman holds up a couple of

heads of lettuce and they are as nice

a s an y you have ever seen in your favorite grocery store . 6 - This is a head of lettuce grown on reclaimed land on the Plantation.

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* * GGEST PROJE~TS
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This so urce of lettuce supplies dozens of Southern markets and is quite an industry. Superintendent Gregory expects his lettuce crop should show a splendid profit this year, with perhaps $25,000 or
more written on the ledger in blaclc ink . 7 - More lettuce than most
of us have seen in a life time . Field after field of it and workers busy geiting it ready for market. 8 - The lettuce is taken from the field to a washing and culling plant. It is packed in ice and ready
to move on-finally finishing up in a salad maybe on one of your plates. 9 - Harry Ukkleb erg , in charge of experimental farm ing, looks over some of the rice which by now has been planted. Each one of those bags is full of rice ready for planting .
J0 - Back in the Industrial School, the
boys learn mechanical drafting and engi-
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neering under expert teachers. Their class rooms, as shown here, are

cheerful and well e quipped. J J-When working with machinery,

it is precision that counts. The boys learn the meaning of splitting

an inch up a hundred times or more and the result is good work.

J2 - Repairs are made on any machinery that might happen to

break down . The boys can fix it up as well as any commercial

machine shop. (Pictures by Joe Stearns .)



HELP PROTECT OUR BIRDS!

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w~ e~ dJ.Ufld (!Jn, J~ 1
By C. H. WHARTON
MERJCAN forests suffer an annual loss of $100,-
f t 000,000 caused by destructive insects, according
to a recent estimate. In many cases nothing is done to meet this challenge to our woodlands. The forests would be compelled to fi ght this battle against insects alone but for a single and powerful ally-birds.
In recent years much emphasis has been placed upon game birds on the farm. Always there has persisted a tendency to overlook the far more valuable and ever present "small birds." Many Georgia birds eat more insects than all other food combined, and a few examples will show their true value.
With the common meadow-lark, or "field lark," which is, unfortunately, often shot for "sport," 74 percent of the stomach contents consists of insects, preferred ones being grasshoppers, cotton boll weevils and cutworms. Particularly fond of big 'hoppers one

on him, however , and his varied tastes scarcely warrent his protection. Of interest is the diversity of the crow's food which may include crawfish, mollusks, fish , toads, salamanders, snakes, eggs, nestlings, carrion, and grain.
Woodpeckers are true conservationists. Their drumming tatoo is a death knell for hordes of destructive insects. Since these insects compose from 2/ 3 to 3/ 4 of their total food, our woodpeckers must consume count less quantities of beetles, caterpillars, and ants. Ants destroy timber. Beginning with a vacant burrow in the bark they devour the wood until a tree is riddted with the_r passages, and into these cavities flashes the barbed tongue of their enemy-the woodpecker.
Ever yone knows a " rain crow's" raucous call tolls a coming storm , though few know his rightful name, the cuckoo. A cuckoo is hard to see, but watch the white nests of tent-caterpillers and web- worms and sooner or later you'll see him , for these leaf-eaters are his favorite food, 250 having been found in a single stomach! ot seeming to mind the hairy kinds of caterpillars, which other birds avoid , the cuckoo's stomach is often completely lined on the inside with fin e, silvery hairs, presenting the appear ance of a fur-lined pocket.
So you see, considering birds for sport alone is not enough. Sportsmen and far mers alike should give consideration to the mor e important insectivorous birds. Much can be done to attract and aid them . Fires can be controlled, gullies and ditch-banks can be planted with food and cover shrubs. Fence rows left with grass and

There's no place like a gourd! This flight-loving visitant, the purple martin, deems no place so suitable as his pendulous, vine-grown home. On long, thin wings these welcome birds, like living fly-traps, clean the air of troublesome insects.
lark contained 37 of these crop-eaters. The phoebe, an insignificant-looking little bird which usually plasters its nest beneath a bridge, comes through wjth an insect percentage of 89. The diminutive, perky little house wren takes top honors, since analysis shows 98 percent of it total food to he insects. How welcome these active birds should he about the garden! As many as 50 different kinds of hugs and beetles have been recorded from the stomach of that flyer in the dusk, the nighthawk.
Even a gleam of redemption shines through old brother crow's black reputation as grasshoppers, maybeetles, caterpillars, weevils, and wire-worms compose l / 5 of his yearly food supply. That other four-fifth s tells badly
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Few pauses for this fellow! He's too busy foraging for grasshoppers and boll-weevils. Brightly clad in his nuptial costume of yellow and black, the meadowlark makes a cheerful picture as he carols his whistling notes from summer fields .
bushes, and border strips sowed with small grains, or lespedeza, enable birds to survive the winter. Let us not forget the most important thing- birds must nest, and they will seek the best areas possible, and they carry on a never-faltering search to feed their growing young. Dead and hollow trees left standing provide a good home for swifts, owls, bluebirds, and woodpeckers.
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higher percentage of vitaminized oils than any other liver, activities reminiscent of gold-rush days have flourished in coastal towns. One poor helper staggered from his boss' office with a check for , 980 after his first week's work. How unfortunate that soup-fin sharks do not abound on the Georgia Coast!

High-de-ho! Finis Cox has a recipe on how to keep from getting stiff in the joints - just stay out of them!
Oh, Well! George Cannon recalls the time a lady fell overboard while out on one of those ocean excursions. Bobbing about in the water the woman yelled, "Somebody do something, there is a shark close to me." Her husband yelled back, "Don't worry, dear. The shark won't hurt you-it's a maneater."
Spiking Wid Her Axsent!
Ed Danforth, who raps out fresh , lively news and features and the sportsmen's favorite column "Ear to the Ground," must take the blame for this one.
One fellow sez to another fellow, "You know, pal, we sure are whipping H- out of the Nazis today." The other fellow sez- "Brother, you sure do speak good English to be a Russian! "
Farmer in the Dell! Troy Dennis, popular printer with more ideas for make-up than Heinz has pickles, offers this one and admits it isn't new but worth passing along. Have you heard of the farmer's son who went to the city and got a job as shoeshine boy7 Now the farmer makes hay while the "son" shines !
Shooting 'Em Down
B. B. Kennington, Wildlife Ranger, heard some gun shots recently while on patrol duty. Upon investigation Ranger Kennington found Seaton Hardie, of Gordon, cracking-down on hawks. Hardie was using a hawk caller and had bagged five hawks. One of the hawks had quail feathers in its claws.
Hardie enjoys a hawk shoot and at the same time he is protecting chickens and quail by removing predators. He has downed 19 hawks since Christmas and still is going strong.

Beer Bottles Useful
At last! Something to do with your old empty beer bottles. West Coast fishermen have found the "stubby" bottles, often thrown away, not only make good floats for their shark nets, but cost from one-tenth to onetwentieth less than the ones they had been using, which, incidentally, were Japanese made.
The use of the novel floats was first discovered by J. T. Barnaby, aquatic biologist with the Fish and Wildlife Service, while rigging his tackle preparatory to catching kingcrabs in the Bering Sea.
This reminds us of the Georgia fi shermen who use light bulbs for the same purpose - except on smaller fish.
In case you haven't heard, the Soup-fin shark industry on the Pacific Coast is big business. Formerly these sharks were utilized for their fins only-the Chinese seem to prize them for soups. Since the discovery by an enterprising coastman that soup-fin shark livers yielded :1 much
* * SPORTMEN'S CREED
Thou shalt inherit the holy earth as a faithful steward, conserving its resources and productivity from generation to generation. Thou shalt safeguard thy fields from soil erosion, thy living waters from drying up, thy forests from desolation, and protect thy hills from overgrazing by the herds, that thy descendants may have abundance forever. If any shall fail in this stewardship of the land thy fruitful fields shall become sterile, stony ground and wasting gullies, and thy descendants shall decrease and live in poverty or perish from off the face of the earth .

The Startling Starlin({ The European Starling is increasing rapidly. So rapidly in fact that something may have to be done about this bird in the future. The Starling is a splendid fighter and very destructive.
On the other hand, woodpeckers are getting scarce. Too many people believe the woodpecker is destructive while actually it is a splendid bird and does a great deal of good work. There is a law against shooting woodpeckers. A Federal law, too, and it is stiff. You get six months in jail or a $500 fine or both for shooting wood-
peckers. If you want a friendly little bird to take up room and board with you, try hanging out some gourds and bring in the Purple Martins. The Martin is said to feed in the air and likes to take a bath in ashes. The ashes act as a disinfectant. Martins love a fight with hawks. The pokeberry bush is splendid bird food. The blue bird diet is made up of 68 percent insects. And for those who didn't know-wasps fertilize our domestic figs.
Grady Archer heard this one and hands it along:
-But It Didn't Happen in Georgia!
Game Warden, jerking out notebook and pencil: "What's your name?"
Game Law Violator: "Christopher Z. Xrompopolutos."
Game Warden, putting away notebook: "Well, all right, but don't let me catch you fishing out of season again!"

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ATLANTA WOMAN GROWS OWN ORANGES AND LEMONS
T HERE is a shortage of s ugar, tires, gasoline and a shortage of this and shortage of that. Georgia ma y not get all the oranges and lemons it needs in the future - who kn ows, but that is no wo rr y for M r. P . L. Richardson, of Atlanta.
Mr. Richardson grows oran ges and lemons as a hob by. Yes, it is true- oranges a nd lemons gro win g each yea r at Mr. Richardson 's home on Bria rcliff Road.
Three years ago plants were ordered fr om 1ew J ersey as an experiment. The plants were placed in a green h ouse and last year Mrs. Richa rdson collected six l1:1.mons

Bizzell Roberts, of Ball Ground, thinks it is just wonderful to go into your own back yard and pick the malcings of a lemonade. The lemons were a bit thick-skinned but full of juice. Does that make your mouth water?

Pretty Mary Estes of Gay, exa mines some o f the ora ng e s g rown near Atlanta . The fr uit is sweet. The only thing wron g is- there just isn't eno ug h o f the m to g o aro und .
and eight oranges. This yea r's crop yielded almost two dozen lemons and abo ut four oranges. ext . year- who knows?
Mrs. Richardson likes the bea utiful white blossoms of th e plants and the fra g rance of the lemon is somethin g yo u don't get fr om any other bloom. Make no mistake abo ut the fruit. The oranges are just so-so but the lemons are g reat big affairs, better than those yo u get in the store. Mrs. Richa rdso n made a lemo n pie out of one lemon!

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crops at Richmond Hill. Yes sir, even the golden rod is being planted so that the Government might experiment with it as a substitute for rubber. Oh yes, recent sales show 15 tons of tung "oil sold.
About 650 people are employed on the Ford place and \Vith Gregory steering their industrial wheel, they get results.
There is a new industry popping out constantly. For example, turpentine production already is under way and beef cattle will have a chance on this extensive program at the Plantation.
The young people are not overlooked. Industrial Schools teach the boys to use their hands as well as their mental powers. This is in addi.tion to a general education. Instructor Bell, in charge of Industrial Education, laas turned out some skilled workers, many of them now engaged in vital defense work in all parts of Georgia. The boys draw a salary for their work and the pay is regulated according to ability .and production. New ideas

are welcome and workers are encouraged to become expert in their selected fields of en deavor. It is a gratifying sight to see young boys learning to operate tractors, repair machinery, handle all types of farm equipment. The disgruntled man, woman and child is not found. The people are happy and making progress. What a shame Georgia does not have one or two more such places. In fact a dozen.
Ther e seems to be no limit to what can be done at the Planta tion. T here is no way to ascertain the va lue o f this gr eat project to our state. It is estimated that about 10,000 wild turkeys r oam about over the Plantation grounds. A nd there are so many deer a system had to be invented to keep them out of the lettuce fields. The wildlife flourishes on the Plantation beca use there is ironclad protection. Ford has his own rangers constantly on guard . Occasionall y so mebody will slip in a nd get a shot but not a second time. A stiff fin e or jail sentence keeps poachers far , far awa y.
How wo uld yo u like to have a lettuce field and collect $1,000 or more a day for a month each year ? Imagine!

OUTDOOR GEORGIA June 1942

!By
(Pat Coope!t

Amethysts found in Georgia and on d isplay in the State Capitol Museum. A cluster of smo//, pole amethysts in notrix fotm {left). Th is probably is the most beautiful amethyst ever found in Georgia . Deep purple in color, it has splendid commercial value (ce nter). Huge twisted amethyst crystals (right)

Amethyst, the wine-colored gem, is one of the best known jewels and Georgia has a huge unharvested crop.
Georgia's amethysts are not precious stones, and the commercial value is low as compared to the ones from foreign countries. Still, our state does have all the amethysts it can use. Occasionally a deep purple amethyst of splendid value is found, hut for the most part ours are pale. This, plus the high cost of cutting and shaping, reduces the value considerably.
Just beyond Madison over in Buckhead , Georgia (not the Buckhead near Atlanta ), a contractor one day exca vated a gravel pit and used the material to surface a road. It was discovered later that hundreds of amethysts were in the gravel pit- thus it is safe to say Georgia has a road paved with amethysts.
There seems to be warmth and comfort in an amethyst, and legend has it that an a~eth yst has power to ward off intoxication, no matter how much is consumed. All of us must know a couple of fellows who should purchase an amethyst immediately. Ameth yst is th~ birthstone for February.
Brazil and Uruguay are among the leading sources of our best amethysts toda y. Russia once held the honor but has lost out.

The origin of the amethyst is described in an old French verse. It seems that Baccus was angry with Diana and vowed to set his beasts on the first person h e met in the woods. Who could it he hut Amethyst, a gorgeous maiden! So Amethyst appealed to Diana for help and was turned into marble just before the beasts reached her. Baccus was deeply touched and tipped over a wine glass on the petrified maiden, dying the marble the color of the juice, and that is the story of the amethyst even if you have to he awfully gullible to believe it.
Not only is the amethyst supposed to ward off intoxication but also sharpens the mind and makes shrewd business men. It is supposed to control evil thoughts and ward off sickness in addition to keeping soldiers from harm and helping them whip the Axis.
The very name "Amethyst" is a Greek word meaning "Not drunken. " An ameth yst necklace once valued at $10,000 co uld be purchased today for about $500 or less. There is no shortage .of ameth ysts and they always are in demand for jewelry, prc bably beca use of the delicate, lovely color of the stone.
Splendid amethyst specimens are on display m the Natural Resources Museum on the fourth floor of the State Capitol.

UNITED STATES SAVING S aONDS AND STAMPS

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J- Ben Cooper, well-known Rome news-
paperman, tells his friend, Carl Griffin, Rome attorney, that all wars are fought over natural resources and checks up on the world globe to prove his point.
No argument about that, Ben! 2 -
Waters of the Soque River above Clarksville pour over the dam and on down over jagged rocks for a cool, refreshing view these warm days . 3 - Johnny Dilbeck, keeper of the Grant Park Zoo, plays a long hand at this game . The idea is to keep your hand. 4 - Well, sir- look WHOOOOO is here! The owl on the right just hates to have his picture taken as you con see. They're at Grant Park Zoo . 5 - Keeper Dilbeck is proud of these beautiful- if you can call pelicans beautiful- birds. 6 - lf you need a dam on your creek, you would do well to get this engineer- the beaver.
7 - Bessie Pope Hempstead of Monticello
with her setters. They are fop -flight bird dogs and they are cray-zee about their master. Annie on the left, Gloria on the right and Brandy outside the fence. 8 - Mildred Turner, Marian Briscoe and Margaret Norman take it easy during recess under the magnificent dogwood frees o f Girls High School in Atlanta.

Rationing Of Fur Coats Unlikely
I :ZB:Z <J~ PCUf State $3,846 A-n .e~ dj.e&J, ~WU~uf Pad $eG4oH,

T i\D I ES- don 't be un easy about L new fur co ats for next yea r or
th e next year. State reco rd s show that 1282 trap-
pers paid Geo rg ia $3,g46 for licenses for th e seaso n 1941-2 accord -
in g t() fi g ures assembled by J. K.
Fin ch o f th e Divi sion of Wildlife.
One non -residen t trapper was listed. Georgia had 40 resident fur dealer s and one nonresident fm d ealer. Eight were dealers or agents fot furs.
These fi g ures revea l that trappin g took a decid ed jump over the 19!J.(). 4 1 seaso n. Onl y 857 trappers were licensed in th e p revious seaso n.
Some of th e ex pert trappers wi ll reap a golden harvest. Even before th e seaso n closed one trappe r alread y had reali~ ed more th an $1200 on hi s pelts. F or th e m onth s he spent with hi s traps thi s gentlentan was well paid.
Reports from th e trappers invariably state th at o nl y a . small percentage of wildli fe vas taken. They ag.ree that Georg ia is abundantl y blessed with fur-beari ng a nimals a nd with co nse rva ti on so v ivid ly brought to mind by the outbreak of wa r, th e suppl y will far exceed th e catch for yea rs to co me. T he success of th e trappers thi s seaso n has cl one much to enco urage trapping. Th e Di vision o f Wi ldlife is co nfident that next trappin g seaso n will fi nd a g reatl y incr eased number of men in the fi eld s and in b usin ess fo r th emsel es.

great induslly. When the cool hreezes blow next fall, the ladies will be in the department stores slipping into this coat and that coat and stroking soft f ur-Georgia fur.
Geo rg ia mink was the aristocrat of all th e trapped animals. Fancy pri ces were received for mink hides.
Th e in glo ri ous mu skrat also pro vid ed a great medium of exchange for cash. Furs whi ch will be sold nex t season under fancy trade names

might be traced to the little muskrat o r even rabbit fur.
The youngest lice nsed trap~ per was a 12 year old boy. The oldest trapper was 83 years of age.
Now the trappin g seaso n is closed. Ran ge rs are on the lookout for th ose wh o do not observe the la w. The Divi sion of Wildlife will appreciate an y information on illegal .traps. Information will be held in strict confid ence.

Thousands of coats will be trimmed with skunk, raccoon, o'possum, muskrat , mink, fox and otter tra pped in Georgia.. These animals are part of a
Season 1941-42
Trappers (Res id ent) - 12130 Trap pers (No n-Resident) - 1 ......... Fur Dea lers ( 1on-Res ident l - 39 .. Fu r Dealers (N o n-Res id ~ nt J -1 Fur Dealers, Agen ts - B

This little fellow can b e mighty unfriendly. Although he is a bit deslruclive , he is of greal value lo Georgia ' s !rapping industry . His p elt brought many dollars info G e org ia during lh e lasl !rapping season . Yep - you' re righl - il's a skunk.

$3,340.00 2 5 .0 0
390.00 200.00
40.00

Season 1940-4 1
Trappers l Resident I . __ ......... ....... .... . ...$2,571 .00 Trappers (Non-R es ident ) ........ ---------- .... ................... Fur Dealers (Resident I _------------- 300.00 Fur Dealers (Non -Resid ent l .................. ------------Fur Dealers, Agents ....... .. ............................ 70.00

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TOTAL

- $4,495.00

T hl' ahov \\a > ma dl' from copi e of lice nSl'S n ow i n thi s ofli cl'. Tlw H vn11 c Offi ce ' ay s "That's a ll."

TOTAL ....... ------------ .....$2,941.00 I 11 crease i11 Reve11u e Over Lasl Y ear. .............$1,542.00

OUTDOOR GEORGIA }uue 1942

J- This spring furnishes cool, flow ing' water fo r the state fish hatchery at Millen . Thousands of gallons of
water each hour gush from th is spring . 2 - The color picture " Seeing Georgia" is being finished on this ma-
chine shown he re. It will be ready soon for showings ove r the state. 3 - Cade Cleveland covght this 40
pounds of carp from the Savannah River. Carp ore extre mely destructive and the Savannah River con do without these and all of their relatives. Good work, Code . (Photo by Fronk N . Wansley .) 4 - Whot is it? It
is a badger. Picture taken in Zoo . 5 - Pryor Worth of Thomaston caught these beautiful bream just before
the closed season . 6 - These mallards paddling peacefully along were snapped at Block Rock Country Club
recently. Mr . and Mrs. with no place to go and all day to get there , 7 - During the war between the
states the Confederate A~my used this rock structure located near Cartersville as o furnace turning out implements of war. 8 - This is the preliminary work necessary to the construction of o dam. The work is going on near Cartersville .

FISHING SEAS 0NS AND REG ULATI 0NS
JUNE
Rock Creek Lake and Drainage ..................______ June 3, 6, 7, 10, 13, 14, 17, 20, 21, 24, 27, 28 .... Blue Ridge
Noantaotly Creek Drainage ............................_.. June 4, 25 ......................... Blue Ridge Montgomery Creek Drainage .............................. June 18 .............................. Blue Ridg e
Jones Creek Drainage -June 11 ............................ Blue Ridge Chattahoochee Riv. & Spoilcane Cr. Dra inag es June 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21, Chattahoachee-
27, 28 -- Chestatee Smith Creek Drainage -- ....... Jun e 4, 11, 18, 25 ............. Chattahoachee-
Chestatee Moccasin Creek Drainage .........- June 6, 7, 13, 14, 24 ......... Lake Burton
Wildcat Creek ---June 3, 10, 17, 20, 21, 27, 28 ............................ lake Burton
Jacks River Drainage (except Rough Creek) ..... June 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 2 1.. Cohutta
Conasauga Rive r and Rough Creek ................. June 27, 28 - Cohutta
SIZE LIMIT: The minimum size limit for all trout is 7 inches. CREEL LIMIT: The maximum catch in any day and the maximum number in possession for ane person shall not exceed 10 fish af any one or all species . FEES AND MANNER OF FISHING : Fishing permits shall be $1.00 per person per day or $10.00 for season permit. Perm its shall be valid on any stream ar lake during the regulated season far such water. Permits shall not be valid unless accompanied by a regular State Fishi ng License. Children under sixteen years of age shall be allowed to fish without permit. Fish shall be taken only with rod and line. Any type af bait ar lure, except Baltimore minnows or goldfish, may be used. Each permittee shall have in use at any one time on the area not more than ane rod and line. PERMITS NECESSARY BEFORE FISHING: Fishermen are required ta obtain fishing per mils before they begin fishing . Permits can be obtained from the Wildlife Rangers on the areas or they can be obtained from the following addresses: Division af Wildlife, State Capital, Atlanta , Ga . Forest Supervisor, U. S. Forest Service, Gainesville, Ga . District Forest Ranger, U. S. Forest Service, Blue Ridge, Ga . District Forest Ranger, U. S. Forest Service, Suches, Ga . District Forest Ranger, U. S. Forest Service, Clayton, Ga . Wildlife Rangers and patrolmen will be at various road entrances into the areas and permits may be obtained from the m. However, to avoid delay in getting started, fishermen should obtain permits as far in advance as possible. Persons found fishing without permits will be liable for legal action . FISHING TIME: Fishing shall be permitted only between the hours of sunup and 7 :00 P.M. af the same day, eastern war time . CREEL CENSUS: Each permittee will be furnished a franked Government postal ca rd , addressed to the Forest Ranger, on the back of which is a form for recorded pertinent information in regard ta his catch . Each perm ittee will be requested ta fill aut the card and leave it with Rangers ar patrolmen or mail it (no postage required ). The information obtained from these cards, if accurately recorded, will be of value in formulating future policies.

The IUIL~BOX

Savannah, Georgia May 1, 1942. Hon. Zack D. Cravey, Commissioner of Wild Life Division, State of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia.
Dear Zack: I am in receipt of your May issue of
"Outdoor Georgia," which is most attractive and very creditable to our State.
I take this opportunity of saying to you that in my part of the State, namely Effin gham County, I have seen much evidence of activity of the Game Wardens, and I am quite sure that the game and fi sh have received more protection in the last twelve month s than in many years in the past.
I wish to commend you and yo ur colleagues for your good work.
With all good wishes, I r emain , Sincerely, G. PHILLIP MO RGAN.

United States Department of Agriculture

FOREST SERVICE

Chattahoochee National Forest

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Gainesville, Georgia May 13, 1942

Mr. Zack D. Cravey

Commi ssioner

Department of Natural Resources

421 State Capitol

Atlanta, Georgia

Dear Mr. Cravey : I have just read yo ur editorial " We
Must Stop F orest Fires" in the May number of the " Outdoor Georgia." The editorial is especially valuable and timely and I sincerely hope that each member of the State Legislature will receive a copy of thi s number. I am not acquainted with the "O utdoor" distribution but certainly the weekly newspapers should have access to this editorial.
If I may be of help to yo u in the prepa-
rat ion of proposed State fire law legislation please let me know.
Very sincerely yours,
H UGH S. REDDI NG F orest Supervisor

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