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w# may have a problem. The
competition i» between four
boys, ail of them pretty good,
but none of them have the ex
perience or size for greatness
this year.”
He also said they will play.
“We have the potential for a
really good team, maybe not
a great one like last year s, but
a good one. Os course we’re
in Class B's toughest region
(Region 4), so you just never
know what sort of record we
will have.
“We’re just waiting to see
what happens,” he added.
Annual expenditures by the
Veterans Administration range
from $3.5 million in Alaska to
more than $567 million in
California. They total more
than $6 billion exerting a sta
bilizing influence on the na
tion's economy.
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Research Shows
Idle Tractors
Are Expensive
The tractor, that universal
work horse of mechanized farm
ing. can easily become a “white
elephant" type of luxury item on
a farm if it just sits there and
isn’t used often enough to earn
its keep.
A recently published analysis of
the cost and utilization of tractor
power and equipment in the Coas
tal Plain of Georgia shows that
many farmers in this section of
the state are paying extremely
high ownership costs for tractors
and other power farm equipment
because this machinery :i so sel
dom used.
Depreciation accounted for
about 66 per cent of the total fixed
costs of the 322 tractors owned by
the 149 farmers interviewed in
this study. Fixed costs accounted
for $4.41 and operating costs ac
counted for $5.76 of the total aver
age annual operating cost of $10.17
per 10-hour day.
This analysis, published by the
University of Georgia Agricultur
al Experiment Stations as Bulle
tin N. S. 104. is entitled. “Cost
and Utilization of Tractor Power
and Equipment in the Coastal
Plain of Georgia.” The study was
made and the report written by
Mr. J. C. Elrod, associate agri
cultural economist at the Geor
gia Experiment Station. Experi
ment. and Mr. J. R. Russell, for
merly assistant agricultural econ
omist at the Georgia station.
On the basis of cost figures re
realed in their study, the agricul
tural economists conclude that a
number of farmers in the Coastal
Plain area own more tractors
than seem necessary to efficiently
operate the cultivated land they
own. They found that frequently
ownership of a large tractor for
land preparation and other heavy
work and of a small tractor for
cultivation results in low annual
use of both tractors and high
hourly costs of operation.
The agricultural economists
point out that a better knowledge
and understanding of the relation
ships of various costs involved in
operating tractors and tractor
drawn farm equipment would
help farmers cut farming costs.
This information should aid far
mers in selecting the size trac
tors and type of farm equipment
best suited to their particular
needs and in planning work so
that maximum efficiency could be
obtained for each piece of equip
ment.
The analysis shows that hours
of annual use and type of opera
tion are the most important fac
tors affecting costs of operating
equipment. Small tractors used
less than 150 hours annually had
an average cost of $2 75 per hour
while those used an average of 400
hours or more had an average
cost of 82 cents per hour.
An earlier study. Bulletin N. S.
95. shows that a similar situation
in regard to cost and utilization of
tractor power and equipment
exists in North Georgia.
My Neighbors
“Ahh—junt a bent pin, a
worm and dad s $90.00 rod
and reel.”
Going Stronger Than Ever — After 355 Years
Trees are a self replenishing re
source. There’s no better example
of this bounty of Nature than Sou
thern Pine.
For exactly 355 years, these
forests have provided the nation
with lumber and other products.
Today many industries are based
on Southern Pine with all going
strong. Even more remarkable is
the fact that there's more and
better sawtimber in the forests
with permanent supplies now as
sured.
Captain John Smith is generally
credited with writing the first
chapter of the Southern Pine
story.
Reporting to his London head
quarters from the Virginia Colony
in 1607. Smith observed that “the
countrey is overgrowne with
pvne.” He sought permission to
realize the commercial possibili
ties.
These observations brought a
sharp rebuke. In no uncertain
terms, the Captain was reminded
that he had been sent to the New
World to search for gold and sil
ver — not to admire the trees.
However, he was persistent and
in another year prevailed on his
superiors to let him carry out his
ambitions. In 1608. under Captain
Smith's direction, the nation’s
first industry —a sawmill —
started up in Jamestown, Virginia,
and began turning out rough pine
boards.
From Jamestown. lumbering
spread to the South and Southwest
until it enveloped the entire 12
state Southern Pine region. Dur
ing 355 years, more than a tril
lion feet of Southern Pine lumber
have been produced — enough to
build 100.000.000 homes. Present
output is sufficient to construct
one million homes each year.
Other industries based on these
forests are more recent in origin.
For example, the South's pulp
and paper industry which ac
counts for about half the nation's
total supply. While naval stores
industries are not young, forest
based chemical enterprises are
comparative fledglings.
Still another potentially Impor
tant industry is scheduled to be
born this year — the manufac
ture of plywood from Southern
Pine.
How can the forests sustain so
many industries without loss of
volume'’
The truth is they are not losing
but gaining in abundance each
year. The reasons can be found in
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(Best Coverage: News, Pictures and Features] Thursday. September 5, 1963
the aforementioned self replenish
ment, and in another major an
niversary being observed this
year.
This is the 50th anniversary of
forest management —a practice
of growing, protecting and other
wise managing irees as a lo n g
term crop. Under 'he precepts of
forest management, harvest is
not allowed to exceed the rate of
growth.
Progress in this field was ex
pedited in 1942. when the South
ern Pine Association sponsored
the Tree Farms Movement in the
South. Lumber companies shared
their “know-how” on forest man-
Family life specialists at the
University of Georgia Exten
sion Service say many teen
agers feel that parents have not
given them enough responsi
bilities.
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! EVACUATING WOUNDED
MEN—one of the most spine
chilling feats of mountain war
fare. Two Army Cold Weather
and Mountain School students
slowly rappel down a sheer
cliff while they guide the
stretcher down. A healthy but
rather scared patient is se
curely tied to the stretcher, giv
ing him a feeling of complete
helplessness as he watches the
■faces of the two men perform
ing their exhausting work.
agement with farmers and other
non-indust rial holders of forest
land.
Now sponsored by American
Forest Producers Industries. Inc.,
an organization of lumber and pa
per companies and other wood
products industries, the movement
has advanced to the point where
the South now has more than 40
million acres of "tree farms” —
two-thirds the nation’s total.
After 355 years, some of the,
brightest chapters of the Southern ।
Pine seem yet to come. According ■
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to U. S. Forest Service Chief, Ed
ward P. Cliff, the growth of Sou
thern Pine “sawtimber” (trees
large enough for lumber) exceeds
that of any other species in th a
nation.
“The modern crop of Southern
Pine — managed under good for
i estry practices — has quality as
well as quantity.” Cliff declares.
, "This quality is improving — so
much so. in fact, that it should
j lead to many new and improved
। uses of wood as a building mater-
I ial.”