REFORESTATION RELEASE NUMBER 12 
ANNUAL SEEDLING REPORT 
 
JULY 1962 
 
1961-62 
 
PLANTING SEASON 
 
GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION P. 0. BOX 1077 
MACON, GEORGIA 
 
 TABLE I NUMBER OF SEEDLINGS PURCHASED BY V.ARIOUS TYPE OWNERSHIP 
 
TYPE OF OWNERSHIP 
 
PERCEN.r OF TOTAL CROP 
 
1. Private Persons, Clubs, Associations & Private Schools 
2. Private Forest Industry - Lumber Mfg. 
3. Private Forest Industry - Pulp & Paper 4. Private Forest Industry - Naval Stores, Plywood 5. Private Other Industry Lands 6. Town, County and Public Schools 
7. State and Other Public Lands 
8. Federal Government 2 Other 
 
65.4 39 21.5 2.4 39 
3 .8 1.6 .2 
 
Totals 
 
100.00 
 
NUMBER SHIPPED 
35,563,050 2,095,500 ll,692,200 1,297,500 2,103,500 
163,000 424,000 872,500 131,000 
54,342,250 
 
TABLE II NUMBER OF SEEDLINGS SHIPPED TO FOREST DISTRICTS BY SPECIES 
 
DISTRICT 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 
Totals 
 
SLASH 
4,ll6,500 9,ll9,600 4,978,400 
208,100 5,916, 700 2,176,000 
6,000 7,676,000 
9,600 1,147z000 
35,344,4oo 
 
LOBLOLLY 
74,000 176,4oo 1,669,000 3,509, 78o 272,000 2,102,890 2,464,000 34,000 2,357,600 4,343,500 
17,084,170 
 
LONGLEAF 
 
WHITE PINE 
 
1,000 150,000 108,500 26,000 
90,500 17,500 10,500 14,500 5,000 
9,000 
 
1,000 3,500 2,000 12,000 4,500 71,050 45,000 2,500 149,500 6,300 
 
435,000 303,350 
 
RED CEDAR ARIZONA CYPRESS 
51,200 78,700 82,000 78,500 s6,6oo 68,28o 41,000 35,000 61,700 152z600 
771,08o 
 
YELLOW POPLAR 
24,250 31,500 7,300 34,500 12,000 38,500 10,000 6,500 21,500 33,300 
222,350 
 
MISC. SPECIES 
 
TOTAL 
 
3,500 1,500 
19,500 37,000 3,500 1,000 16,000 2,000 
83,500 1,400 
 
4,271,450 9,561,700 6,866,700 3,905,88o 6' 395,800. 4,475,220 2,592,500 7,770,500 2,688,4oo 
5,693,100 
 
171,900 54,342,250 
 
 TABLE III 
DISTRICT I 
COUNTY Bryan Bulloch Burke Caodler Chatham Effingham Emanuel Evans Jenkins Liberty Long Mcintosh Screven Tattnall 
Totals 
 
NUMBER OF SEEDLINGS SHIPPED TO COUNTIES BY FOREST DISTRICTS AND SPECIES 
 
SLASH 480,500 472,000 414,000 559,500 109,500 45,000 734,000 85,000 231,000 
8,000 5,000 402,000 307,000 264,000 
4,116,500 
 
LOBLOLLY 5,000 
30,000 3,000 35,000 1,000 
 
LONGLEAF 
 
WHITE 
PINE 
500 
 
RED CEDAR ARIZONA CYPRESS 
3,500 13,700 
500 16,500 
2,500 
1,500 4,000 
500 
 
YELLOW POPLAR 
1,000 
16,000 
 
74,000 
 
1,000 1,000 
 
500 1,000 
 
5,500 3z000 
51,200 
 
1,000 6,250 
24,250 
 
DISTRICT II 
 
Baker 
 
958,500 
 
Brooks 
 
485,000 
 
Calhoun 
 
434,000 
 
Clay 
 
93,000 
 
Colquitt 
 
511,500 
 
Cook 
 
402,500 
 
Decatur 1,193,500 
 
Dougherty 1,012,700 
 
Early 
 
1,348,650 
 
Grady 
 
341,500 
 
Miller 
 
375,100 
 
Mitchell 
 
488,500 
 
Seminole 
 
247,000 
 
Thomas 
 
383,000 
 
Worth 
 
6~2zl20 
 
Totals 
 
9,ll9,600 
 
6,000 10,000 4,000 1 000 
2,500 147,300 
500 
2,000 3zl00 176,4oo 
 
500 500 
1,000 
 
5,000 2,500 5,000 
500 
137,000 
 
1,500 500 
 
15C,500 3,500 
 
2,700 11,100 
300 1,200 9,000 3,000 8,700 9,500 5,000 7,500 1,600 4,500 2,500 8,000 4zl00 
78,700 
 
2,000 8,000 18,000 1,000 
500 2,000 
31,500 
 
MISC. SPECIES 
500 
3,000 3,500 
 
TOTAL 489,000 487,200 444,500 
579,000 147,000 
46,500 
735,500 105,000 231,500 
8,000 
5,000 405,000 314,500 273l750 
4,271,450 
 
1,000 200 
 
971,200 502,600 444,800 
58,200 524,500 405,500 1,212,700 1,192,500 1,358,150 355,500 577,200 493,500 250,000 
532,500 642.z850 
 
1,500 9,561,700 
 
 DISTRICT III 
 
COUNTY 
 
SLASH 
 
Chattahoochee 190,500 
 
Crisp 
 
90,000 
 
Doo1y 
 
155,500 
 
Lee 
 
274,000 
 
Macon 
 
46,500 
 
Marion 
 
412,000 
 
Muscogee 
 
295,500 
 
Quitman 
 
435,700 
 
Randolph 
 
536,100 
 
Schley 
 
76,000 
 
Stewart 
 
108,000 
 
Sumter 
 
450,900 
 
Talbot 
 
227,000 
 
Taylor 
 
1,293,4oo 
 
Terrell 
 
225,300 
 
Webster 
 
161z000 
 
Totals 
 
4,978,4oo 
 
DISTRICT IV Butts Carroll Clayton Coweta Douglas Fayette Fulton Harris Heard Henry 
Lamar 
Meriwether Newton Pike Rockdale Spalding Troup 
U;eson 
Totals 
 
38,500 8,000 3,500 
12,600 15,000 
15,000 3,500 49,000 
1,000 1, 500 
12,500 
48zOOO 
208,100 
 
LOBLOLLY 325,000 20,000 
5,100 35,000 100,000 66,000 
9,4oo 15,000 678,500 27,000 85,000 291,000 12,000 
1,669,000 
92,800 353,500 30,000 108,100 90,000 288,800 232,500 135,500 216,700 147,4oo 49,880 4o3,500 ll8,500 217,000 23,000 65,500 756,100 18lz000 
3,508,780 
 
LONGLEAF 50,000 
1,000 54,000 
1,500 500 
1,500 
108,500 
1,000 500 
2,000 9,500 4,000 5,500 
2,500 500 
500 26,000 
 
WHITE 
PINE 
1,000 1,000 2,000 
 
RED CEDAR 
ARIWNA CYPRESS 
11,500 1,000 2,300 3,000 7,500 1,000 4,000 3,100 
1,000 13,600 1,500 
4,500 25,000 3zOOO 
82,000 
 
YELLOW 
roPLAR 1,200 
500 500 
5,100 
7,300 
 
MISC. SPECIES 
16,500 3,000 
19,500 
 
TOTAL 
565,5U 122,700 156,500 281,4oo 85,500 520,000 418,000 439,700 548,600 
91,000 787,500 514,600 317,000 1,591,400 263,300 
164~,000 
6,866, 700 
 
2,500 1,000 5,000 
500 2,000 1,COO 
12,000 
 
3,500 500 
5,000 9,500 1,000 2,500 10,500 3,000 
4,000 
12,500 3,4oo 500 9,000 3,500 9,000 lzOOO 
78,500 
 
1,000 
20,000 7,000 5,000 1,500 34,500 
 
1,000 500 
30,000 1,000 
4,500 37,000 
 
97,300 394,500 46,000 123,600 101,500 321,300 265,600 159,000 216,700 186,400 
53,380 474,500 122,500 224,000 35,500 71,5CO 782,100 
230t.20C 
3,905,880 
 
 DISTRICT V 
COUNTY 
Ben Hill Bleckley Dodge Houston Irwin Jeff Davis Laurens Montgomery Pulaski Telf'air Tift Toombs Treutlen Turner Wheeler Wilcox 
Totals 
DISTRICT VI 
Baldwin Bibb Crawford Glascock Hancock Jasper Jefferson Johnson Jones Monroe Peach 
Putnam 
Twiggs Washington Wilkinson 
~ 
Totals 
 
SLASH 
538,500 123,000 632,000 152,800 214,500 837,000 588,000 247,000 108,000 657,500 
66,000 260,000 126,500 574,500 299,500 49lz500 
5,916,700 
233,500 144,200 176,000 
35,000 19,000 
374,500 105,500 10,500 
34,000 67,600 18,000 138,100 461,000 359,100 
2,176,000 
 
LOBLOLLY 25,000 22,000 21,000 175,000 
5,000 19,000 
5,000 
272,000 
130,000 263,470 64,420 83,000 539,500 157,500 
2,000 79,000 52,000 252,500 34,600 107,500 95,500 126,500 114,4oo 2,102,890 
 
LONGLEAF 
5,000 76,000 4,500 
5z000 90,500 
 
WHITE 
PINE 
3,000 
500 1,000 
4,500 
 
RED CEDAR ARIZONA CYPRESS 
9,500 9,500 23,500 12,000 2,500 5,500 3,000 7,500 2,000 2,000 
600 4,500 5,000 5,000 
500 4z000 
95,600 
 
1,500 6,500 4,000 
1,000 
 
50 70,000 
 
500 2,000 
 
500 2,000 
17,500 
 
500 71,050 
 
3,000 29,830 5,100 
4,600 1,500 5,000 
4,000 5,650 2,000 4,100 3z500 68,280 
 
YELLOW POPLAR 
5,000 1,000 
500 1,000 2,000 1,000 
500 
1,000 12,000 
1,500 
22,000 
9,000 6,000 
38,500 
 
MISC. SPECIES 3,000 
500 
3,500 
 
TOTAL 
579,000 159,500 678,000 345,300 217,000 924,500 616,500 255,500 110,000 660,000 
67,600 270,000 131,500 579,500 301,000 500z500 
6,395,800 
 
1,000 1,000 
 
395,500 444,050 249,520 118,000 581,500 157,500 451,100 186,000 67,500 297,000 108,200 137,150 236,600 592,100 479z500 
4,475,220 
 
 DISTRIC'l' VII 
 
COUNTY Bartow Catoosa Chattooga Cherokee Cobb Dade Floyd 
Gilmer Gordon Haralson 
Murray Paulding Pickens 
Polk Walker Whitfield 
 
-SLA-SH 
2,000 3,000 1,000 
 
Totals 
 
6,000 
 
DISTRICT VIII 
 
Appling Atkinson Bacon Berrien Brantley Camden Charlton 
Clinch Coffee Echols Glynn 
Lanier Lowndes Pierce Ware 
wa~e 
 
288,500 630,000 102,000 
207,500 562,000 4ol,OOO 691,000 1,220,500 610,000 660,500 61,000 
138,000 
869,500 
34o,500 610,000 284,000 
 
Totals 
 
7,676,000 
 
LOBLOLLY 418,000 47,500 83,500 207,000 124,500 44,000 183,500 144,000 47,000 208,500 17,000 159,500 256,000 85,500 384,500 54,000 
2,464,000 
1,000 
3,000 
15,500 
4,000 
500 
10,000 
34,000 
 
LONGLEAF 500 
1,000 500 
1,500 4,000 1,000 
2,000 
10,500 
 
WHITE PINE 
500 
3,000 2,500 1,500 2,500 2,500 6,000 8,000 
500 500 2,500 
10,000 
2,500 2,500 
45,000 
 
RED CEDAR ARIZONA CYPRESS 
2,500 
 
YELLOW 
POPLi\R 
 
MISC. SPECIES 
9,000 
 
2,500 6,500 3,000 8,500 1,000 11,000 4,000 
500 
1,000 
500 
41,000 
 
5,000 500 
1,500 
 
5,500 500 
 
3,000 1,000 10,000 16,000 
 
TOTAL 430,50) 
50,500 87,000 211,000 134,000 55,000 204,500 153,500 64,500 216,000 22,500 160,000 266,000 92,500 388,000 57,000 
2,592,500 
 
1,000 
 
10,000 
 
500 500 1,000 2,500 
14,500 
 
500 500 500 2,500 
 
500 
1,000 4,000 
500 3,000 
3,500 2,000 2,000 
500 11,000 
500 5,000 1,500 
35,000 
 
5,000 500 
500 
500 6,500 
 
1,000 
500 500 2,000 
 
297,000 630,000 103,500 214,500 562,000 411,500 709,500 1,220,500 615,000 666,500 
63,500 139,000 882,000 341,000 628,500 286,500 
7,770,500 
 
 DISTRICT IX 
 
COUNTY Banks Barrow Dawson DeKalb Fannin Forsyth Franklin Gwinnett Habersham Ha.ll Hart Jackson Lumpkin Rabun Stephens Towns Union 'White 
 
SLASH 
2,100 1,500 4,000 1,000 1,000 
 
Totals 
 
9,600 
 
DISTRICT X 
 
Clarke Columbia 
 
10,000 
 
Elbert 
 
2,000 
 
Greene 
 
500 
 
Lincoln 
 
Madison 
 
6,500 
 
M:!Du:ff'ie 109,500 
 
.t>t>rgan 
 
8,500 
 
Oconee 
 
Oglethorpe 
 
Richmond 845,500 
 
Taliaferro 
 
Walton 
 
46,500 
 
Warren 
 
u8,ooo 
 
Wilkes 
 
Ill 
 
Totals 1,147,000 
 
LOBLOLLY 
120,500 104,000 29,000 198,600 61,500 60,000 166,000 257,500 183,000 175,000 177,000 462,500 
56,000 11,500 172,000 77,500 38,000 8zOOO 
2,357,600 
 
LONGLEAF 
1,000 1,500 
500 
500 1,000 
500 5,000 
 
WHITE 
PINE 
500 500 2,000 4,000 1,000 1,000 5,000 23,500 7,000 1,500 
4,000 36,000 24,500 7,500 30,000 1,500 
149,500 
 
RED CEDAR 
ARIZONA CYPRESS 
1,000 6,000 
3,000 5,000 2,000 3,000 14,200 
500 7,000 5,000 3,000 4,000 3,000 5,000 
61,700 
 
YELLOW MISC. POPLAR SPECIES 
 
2,000 1,000 8,000 
500 2,500 
 
500 1,500 1,000 35,000 20,000 
 
2,000 5,000 
500 
21,500 
 
6,500 16,000 
3,000 83,500 
 
31,500 118,500 301,500 317,500 204,500 830,500 
92,000 209,000 804,500 478,000 120,500 137,500 123,000 56,000 519,000 
4,343,500 
 
3,000 2,000 
 
2,8oo 
 
4,000 9,000 
 
1,500 500 
500 
500 500 6,300 
 
ll,OOO 
5,000 45,500 2,000 2,500 2,500 14,000 
500 2,000 1,000 52,500 3,500 6,000 3,500 4z100 
152,600 
 
3,300 
 
400 
 
21,000 
 
2,000 500 
 
1,500 2,000 
 
1,000 
 
w 3z000 33,300 
 
1,400 
 
TOTAL 
121,500 110,500 
29,500 207,200 75,500 67,000 182,000 277,200 245,500 209,500 184,500 466,500 64,000 
59,00C 222,500 85,000 68,500 13z000 
2,688,400 
52,000 135,700 
367,000 
320,r:J:XJ 
209,00C 841,500 216,000 218,000 
8o6,500 
481,000 1,025,500 
141,000 176,000 177,000 526,6oo 
5,693,100 
 
 TABLE IV NURSERY STOCK STATUS 
Number produced by Georgia Forestry Commission Number purchased out of State 
Totals 
 
50,933,150 5,650,000 
 
Number Sold 
 
54,342,250 
 
Surplus Trees 2,24o,SOO 
 
TABLE V NUMBER SEEDLINGS PRODUCED BY NURSERIES BY SPECIES 
 
SPECIES 
Slash Loblolly Longleaf White Pine Virginia Pine Sbortleaf Pine Sand Pine Spruce Pine Red Cedar Arizona Cypress Yellow Poplar Sycamore Cottonwood Pin oak 
 
DAVISBORO 
2,139,500 1,495,500 
2,500 8,8oo 
 
BERTY 
8,181,300 49,900 32,000 
28,000 63,300 
 
HIGHTOWER 
3,574,500 45,000 102,000 
 
PAGE-WJ\LKE!R 
18,433,000 199,500 90,000 
 
MORGAN 
1,100,600 13,994,770 
313,000 153,350 
 
197,000 
 
12,000 1,500 132,250 413,830 159,050 
 
11 000 
 
Totals 
 
3,646,300 8,354,500 
 
3, 721,500 
 
18,919,350 16,291,350 
 
TABLE VI NUMBER OF SEEDLINGS PURCHASED OUT OF STATE BY VENDORS BY SPECIES 
 
SPECIES 
 
NORTH CAROLINA DEPr. OF FORESTRY 
 
ALABAMA DIVISION OF FORESTRY 
 
Slash Pine \tfuite Pine 
 
150,000 
 
5, 500,000 
 
Totals 
 
150,000 
 
5,500,000 
 
TOTAL 
29,854,400 19,314,170 
435,000 153,350 
45,000 102,000 12,000 
1,500 132,250 638,830 222,350 
2,500 8,8oo 
ll 000 
50,933,150 
TOTAL 
5,500,000 150,000 
5,650,000 
 
 TABLE VII NUMBER SEEDLINGS SHIPPED BY NURSERIES BY SPECIES 
 
SPECIES 
 
DAVISBORO 
 
Slash 
 
2,462,000 
 
Loblolly 
 
2,646,000 
 
Longleaf 
 
9,000 
 
White Pine 
 
1,000 
 
Virginia Pine 
 
1,000 
 
Shortleaf Pine 
 
Sand Pine 
 
Spruce Pine 
 
Red Cedar 
 
ll,500 
 
Arizona Cypress 89,950 
 
Yellow Poplar 
 
35,500 
 
Sycamore 
 
Cottonwood 
 
Pin Oak 
 
HERTY 
11,752,300 425,500 151,500 4,500 
500 
20,000 102,300 
31,600 
1,000 
 
HIGHTOWER 23,500 
5,346,200 22,500 205,000 5,000 95,500 
15,500 82,500 31,500 
 
PAGE-WALKER 15,225,000 
146,500 21,500 6,500 5,000 500 
18,500 130,200 
43,250 2,000 3,500 
 
MORGAN 
5,891,600 8,519,970 
230,500 86,350 34,000 
5,500 12,000 
1,500 66,750 237,88o 80,500 
500 4,300 
100 
 
Totals TABLE VIII 
 
5,251,950 
 
12,489,200 
 
5,827,200 
 
15,602,450 
 
15,171,450 
 
NUMBER OF SEEDLINGS SHIPPED FROM NURSERIES BY SPECIES & METHOD OF SHIPMENT 
 
METHOD & SPECIES State Truck 
Slash ,. Loblolly 
Longleaf 
White Pine Red Cedar Yellow Poplar Mise. Species 
 
DAVISBORO 
1,319,000 1,374,000 
8,500 1,000 8,500 29,500 81,500 
 
HERTY 
4,581,500 239,000 145,500 4,500 7,500 10,000 72z500 
 
HIGHTOWER 
23,000 3,417,700 
22,000 199,500 13,000 
31,500 178,000 
 
PAGE-WALKER 
8,173,500 115,500 14,500 6,000 13,500 30,500 101,000 
 
MORGAN 
2,489,000 5,993,370 
139,000 14,800 52,550 75,800 226,780 
 
Totals 
Pickup Slash Loblolly Longleaf White Pine Red Cedar Yellow Poplar Misc. SJ2ecies 
Totals 
 
2,822,000 
1,143,000 1,272,000 
500 
3,000 6,000 5,450 2,429,950 
 
5,o60,500 3,884, 700 
 
7,143,000 186,500 6,000 
12,500 21,600 31,300 
7,428,700 
 
500 1,928,500 
500 5,500 2,500 
5,000 
1,942,500 
 
8,454,500 
7,051,500 31,000 7,000 500 5,000 12,750 40z200 
7,147,950 
 
8,991,300 
3,402,600 2,536,600 
91,500 71,550 14,200 4, 700 69z000 
6,1~,150 
 
TOTP.L 35,354,400 17,084,170 
435,000 303,350 45,000 102,000 12,000 
1,500 132,250 638,830 222,350 
2,500 8,800 
100 
54,342,250 
TOTAL 
16,586,000 11,129,570 
329,500 225,8oo 
95,050 177,300 659z 780 
29,203,000 
18,768,400 5,954,600 105,500 77,550 37,200 45,050 150z950 
25,139,250 
 
 T.ABLE IX NUMBER SURPLUS SEEDLINGS BY SPECIES BY NURSERIES 
 
SPECIES 
Loblolly Pin Oak 
Total 
 
NURSERY 
Morgan Morgan 
 
AMOUNT 
2,230,000 
10,~ 
2,240,900 
 
TABLE X NUMBER SHIPMENTS MADE BY NURSERIES BY METHOD OF SHIPMENT 
 
METHOD 
 
DAVISBORO 
 
HERTY 
 
HIGHTOWER 
 
PAGE-WALKER 
 
MORGAN 
 
State Truck 
 
269 
 
Pickup 
 
126 
 
Totals 
 
395 
 
528 321 
 
849 
 
921 
 
813 
 
982 
 
236 
 
358 
 
1049 
 
1340 
 
TABLE XI NUMBER OF SEEDLING ORDERS ACCEPI'ED BY THE GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION 
 
GEORGIA FORESTRY COMMISSION NURSERIES & LOCATION 
 
Davisboro Nursery, Davisboro, Georgia 
 
Fireside 8-3676 
 
Herty Nursery, 2910 Newton Road, Albany Georgia Hemlock 2-6131 
 
Hightower NUrsery, Star Route, Gainesville, Georgia Dawsonville, Amhurst 5-2292 
 
Page-Walker Nursery, Route 4, Lyons, Georgia, Reidsville 557-2061 
Morgan Nursery, Route 1, Byron, Georgia Centerville 953-3717 
 
TOTAL 
3423 1131