McCormick messenger. (McCormick, S.C.) 1902-current, April 18, 1935, Image 2
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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA
Thursday, April 18, 1935
McCORMICK MESSENGER
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Established June 5, 1902
jEdmond j. McCracken,
Editor and Owner
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Cormick, S. C. t as mail matter of
(he second class.
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FOREST RANGER
WRITES LETTER ON
FOREST SERVICE
(Continued from 1st page.)
consideration for small immature
trees and reproduction while drag
ging logs out of the woods are not
at all conducive to securing the
‘highest possible immediate finan
cial returns from a logging opera
tion—and so they are not done!
Destructive lumbering with no
thought of perpetuating the forest
for others to use, may rightly be
thought of as making economic
orphans of our posterity.
. The second Fury, and one no less
scourging, is the removal of the
restraining forces exerted by a for-
dust storms in the West: this could
never happen in a forested country
Perhaps one of the Furies that
would have been most felt by the
ancients is the destruction and dis
appearance of game and fish that
attend a removal of the forests.
Game needs shelter, the protection
and cover of woodlands in which
to breed and to live; fish cannot
exist in streams and creeks that dry
up during the summer months or
that become so clogged with silt
and clay from washed-in soils that
life is an impossibility.
A Fury that would be felt now
mere than in earlier days is the
effect that forest-removal has on
towns and population. Towns that
depend in whole or in part upon
trees to supply them with the raw
materials necessary for the susten
ance of wood-using industries have
all too many times in the past few
decades been forced to a state of
ruin cr made poor when the lum
bermen had cut out. Shifting and
transient population is an attend
ing evil upon this logging policy of
cutting out and then getting out.
People that depend upon forest and
wood-using industries as a means
of securing a livelihood can never
attain a very high standard of liv
ing and economic and social secur
ity when the supply of saw logs is
ever and again becoming depleted
and they are always on the move,
as it were.
The seventh Fury is the absence
«st cover in preventing floods and ^
soil washing. It is surprising how °* opportunities to hunt and
much effect an oak leaf -or a pine to go camping, to enjoy the
needle has in checking the force of s P iri t of good fellowship afforded
rain, gravity-driven to the ground, i b y even a short s P ace of tim f spent
stopping It and then letting it down I in the woodlands; in short, the lack
ttnreh more softly. Nor is all of !°f the recreational advantages
the rain water deposited at any one
time, for a tree canopy tends to
distribute more evenly the fall of
rain, instead of its being all con
centrated within a small space of
time. The soil-binding' powers of
the roots of trcleg* and forest vege
tation need no discussion here. Ev
eryone knows hdw they hbld to
gether the soil, tehlch ab&orbs the
'faitihg rain water and releases It
gradually by seepage, rather than
flowing it ah tb rush off; fcell men,
to the nearest stream, to the xie&t-
creek, and thence to the near-
est'irtver, there creating and giving
^-^tus to floods* and flood con-
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beneflfc^eht influence of for
ests in tend$ij2r to maintain and
create more mddetate temperature
is well recognized. An area that
supports no growth of trees knbws
the third Fury, and knows, too,
greater extremes of temperature
than does its more fortunate neigh
bors. '
And a fourth one is the absence
accrue with forest destruction. The
beauty of trees, the inspiration of a
quiet walk down, the leafy aisles,
the sublimity of God that in these
busy, crowded days is seldom found,
save in churches—all these go when
the trees go!
Someone has well written that
the carpeted paths df a forest could
be likened to the Walks of God—
indeed, for quite a long time it ap
peared as if an act of God’s would
be necessary in order to protect
His walks! Since no one else would
or could do It, *the United States
Forest Service was charged with
the'safeguarding of the nation’s
forests and - the proper care of
them. Much impetus has been given
the cause of forest conservation by
the far-sighted policies of this pres
ent admin.stration; however, it was
another Roosevelt that gave for
estry in this country its first great
step forward, creatihg many new
national forests out of the public
domain by presidential proclama
tion. It has been only within a
of the effect exerted by forests in relatively recent period of time
checking wind movements. Much that the Forest Service has begun
lias been written of late about the the purchasing and administration
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of forest lands in the East, where
many new problems were found.
However, problems have 2ver been
the lot of the Service, both in the
West and in the East; indeed, from
its very inception the Forest Serv
ice has encountered a certain
amount of opposition from the
very people who were being bem-
fited: from cattlemen, from sheep
men, from lumbsrmen, and from
farmers, as well as from local gov
ernmental units and from othe*
good folk v/hose suspicions includ"
a complete lack of trust in any
form of altruism in the United
States Government'.
Altruism in a government is cer
tainly a quality that cannot be
valued too hnhlv. and the altruistic
motives of the Forest Service are
well-evidenced by the fact that the
one-time bitterest enemies cf the
national forest system in the West
have now become its greatest
friends. The cattlemen and the
sheepmen no longer howl because
they are forced to pay for grazing
privileges and because thev are
restricted as to the number of .ani
mals that are permitted to feed on
a given area: they feel that with
the wise management policies of
the Forest Service at the helm they
have seme assurance of a perpetun!
.supply of range lands and food for
their cattle and for their sheep:
many lumbermen and loggers have
found their supply of raw material
undiminished over a period of
many years because the trees came
from forest lands administered by
the Forest Service, and many more
are becoming converted to the
guiding thesis of national forest
management: never cut more than
is grown or sustained yield. Units
cf municipal government, as well
as of county government, find that
much of the taxes that contribute
to the support and maintenance of
the government are derived from
levies on the income received from
forest and wood-using industries;
many county governments have
found their greatest source of sup
port to be the 25 per cent of the
proceeds from national forest sales
that is given by the Forest Service
to the county in which the sales
take place. Thinking farmers will
readily take sides with the Forest
Service when they consider that
the wisest form of land retirement
is one that embraces the principle
of substituting forrst-crop produc
tion for agricultural-crop produc
tion cn areas that are sub-marginal
from an agricultural point of view.
Sub-marginal agricultural land is
usually marginal forest-producing
’and and finds its highest social
and economic service expressed i.i
growing trees.
However, the”"* will always be
m^e people who ore unsympa
thetic in their attitude toward the
policies of the Forest Service, as
well as the basic principles upon
which these policies are based: and
it is inevitable that there will be a
certain amount’cf misunderstand
ing, even amongst thinking men.
regarding the application of the
Service policies. The United States
Forest Service does not wish to
censure those who fail to concur
in its point of view, nor does it de
sire to make the mistake of plac
ing any stigma of blame whatso
ever fer a lack of co-operation. The
Forest Service is honestly trying to
be a good neighbor and to do some
thing, not for the advancement of
the interests of any one particular
person or group, but for the public
as a whole—in short, the greatest
possible good to the greatest pos
sible number.
In the evolution that marks the
progress of any section in this
civilized world, there can be no
greater help than a spirit of co-
I operation; and there can be no
| finer ideals of citizenship than
j those inspired by a love for fair-
j mindedness and unselfishness and
! good will.
Since Adam’s first excursion to
jthe apple tree, man has ever been
prone to accept as inviolate certain
, privileges of land use that he has,
J willy nilly, taken as his own. ' A
peculiar distortion of logical think
ing, it is true, but then man is man
for a’ that and a’ that .... A
characteristic human quality it is
—and perhaps at times hecessarily
so—that the individual thinks al-
! most entirely in terms of his own
interests and cf the immediate
present. Only a few philanthropic
millionaires are able at any time to
afford the investment and carrying
changes essential as the basis for a
program of forest conservation, the
: purchasing of large areas of for
es’ lands, and the unselfish man
aging of them in perpetuity for
the public good. We have sem how
necessary and essential it is that
; this eho.uld be done, and what with
this country using timber many
I times faster than it is being grown,
it is imperative that something-
should be done; it is very much in
favor of the United States Govern
ment that something has already
been done, that something is being
done. But more must be accom
plished; the whole is an obligation
that we owe to ourselves and to our
posterity; and there is scarcely any
need to point out that the only
agent capable of managing this
public trust and able to assume it
is the United States Forest Service.
WM. P. DAVID,
District Forest Ranger.
Greenwood. S. C.. Eox 56.
April 15, # 1335.
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Dan Bickley Is
•A
Awarded Prize
LEXINGTON BOY TELLS HOW
HE MADE BIG COTTON
YIELD
J COLUMBIA. Annl 1.—Dan. Lewis
State 4-H Boys Club Leader at
Clemson College, today announced
, that Dan Bickley. cf Lexington, had
; won the $100.00 prize given by the
Chilean Nitrate Eudcaticnal Bu
reau. Inc., for his achievement in
cotton production in 1934.
I Mr. Lewis also announced the
winners of the district ' prizes
awarded to 4-H Cotton Club mem
bers by the Chilean Nitrate Educa
tional Bureau, Inc., as follows:
Piedmont District: John Brown,
Piedmont; Robert Welbom, Pick
ens; Donald Jordan, Chesterfield;
and Melrow Sloan, Inman. Pee
Dee District: Sam Garwood, Sum
ter; Samuel Chandler, Minturn;
Robert McIntyre, Marion; and Mar
ion Rhode, Cottageville. Aiken Dis
trict: Dan Bickley, Lexington; T. B.
Heape, Fort Motte; and Agile Ayer,
Olar, S. C.
Dan Bickley, winner of the State
'*-ide prize, had a yield of 2945
pounds cf seed cotton or 1115
nounds of lint cotton of excellent
staple on his acre.
T n a letter to his county agen*
^oiling how he made his yield,
young Bickley said, “I attribute my
success mainly to the following
"actors: Good seed, close spacing,
and the right use cf fertilizer. I
have never found any source of
nitrogen that will equal Chilean
Nitrate, and much of my success is
clue to the 253 pounds of Chilean
Nitrate, applied as side-dressing per
acre in two applications after chop
ping.”
Bickley said he planted his cot
ton on April 20, using 500 pounds
3-4-4 before pdanting and in addif
tion he broadcasted 12 two-horse
loads of stable manure. His rows
were 39 inches in width. He plant
ed Wannamaker’s Improved Dixie
Wonder Seed. He secured a good
stand and left plants thick in the
drill.
After chopping young Bickley
says he applied 250 pounds of Chil-'
ean Nitrate per acre as a side
dressing in two applications. He
used sweetened poison to keep
down weevils and also made three
light dustings with calcium arsen
ate.
Young Bickley said his profit on
this acre amounted to $117.62 after
deducting cost of $63.36.
Bickley has been a 4-H Club
member for ten years and has been,
a consistent prize winner. The
$100.00 which he won in this con-
itest bringing his total winnings in
the ten years up to $489.00 and his
returns from his club acres during
the ten year period have amounted
to $2,399.95.