3. Less harmful and more conservative operating 

 practices should be followed in the turpentine 

 woods, where mortality is unnecessarily high. 

 Deep chipping, hanging too many cups on each 

 tree, and the working of trees less than 9 inches 

 d. b. h. are practices that result in a decrease in 

 naval stores production and in both the quantity 

 and quality of residual wood. Through skillful 

 management in combining naval stores operations 

 with the harvesting of pulpwood, poles, ties, and 

 sawlogs, increased financial returns can be obtained 

 from turpentine orchards. 



4. More intensive forest management should be 

 practiced on all operations; this involves selective 

 logging, improvement cutting, thinning, and a 

 more integrated utilization that will convert into 

 usable commodities material now being wasted 



or not being used to its fullest advantage. 



5. To assure these measures' being accepted and 

 applied, a more intensified program of forestry 

 education, especially among the many thousand 

 small land holders, is badly needed. Extension 

 activities, as organized and equipped at present, 

 are entirely inadequate to give the amount of prac- 

 tical on-the-ground instruction, demonstration, 

 and advice that is required. 



6. Finally, research in all phases of forestry, but 

 particularly in the fields of forest management, 

 utilization, naval stores operations, and planting, 

 should be continued and expanded. So many 

 forest owners have taken the first steps in forest 

 management in south Georgia that the demand for 

 sound and tested technique cannot be satisfied by 

 the present sources of information. 



