Canadian Forestry Journal, March, 1919 



127 



At three o'clock the fire fighting squad is at 

 the scene of the fire, and before darkness falls 

 the fire is put out or is safely checked. 



The present method of fighting fires is as 

 primitive as travel by horse and buggy. A 

 fire may get far beyond control before dis- 

 covered, and by the time a crew of men to fight 

 it has collected, it is of too great a magnitude 

 for checking. 



A complete and geological photograph of all 

 this huge area can also be made, which would 

 be of inestimable value to the Ontario Govern- 

 ment. 



Air Force to Operate. 



Th° Canadian Air Force would take re- 

 sponsibility for the administration and opera- 

 tion of the service, and the supply of necessary 

 training of personal and other ranks. 



Th" organization would be as here outlmed: 

 (1) One seaplane squadron with its headquar- 

 ters at North Bay railhead; (2) Three detached 

 Hi'rhts of SIX aeroplanes, each located on one 

 of the three railway lines emanating northwards 

 and westwards from North Bay. 



The patrolling seaplane would carry a pilot 

 rind observer for locating all fires, and the larger 

 flymg boats would carry the pilot and six pas- 

 sengers for fighting the fires. The organization 

 of machines for one squadron would thus be: 16 

 seaplanes for patrolling, and two large flying 

 boats for carrying fire-fighters and their equip- 

 ment. 



The whole of the organization would be in 

 constant communication by wireless, and ma- 

 chines on patrol can be ordered to return or pro- 

 ceed to other points as the adminsitration at 

 Nor'h Bay considers necessary. 



A great possibility of this, too, is the opening 

 of rapid communication by mail between North 

 Bay and James Bay. as there would be every day 

 spare machines and pilots not on aerial patrol. 



It would also serve as a means of giving 

 quick assistance and supplies of food and cloth- 

 ing to devastated areas and districts in Northern 

 Ontario, which are not served by any means 

 of communication with the outside world except 

 by canoe. 



A BUSH TO EVERY FARM. 



(V. A. Hart, in Toronto Globe.) 

 "I would like to see it made compulsory for 

 every one hundred-acre farm to carry at least 

 five acres of live bush. Outside of the value of 

 the dead or old wood for fuel, the natural mois- 

 ture would be conserved. Many of our old On- 

 tario counties have practically no bush, and 



creeks which were large forty years ago have a 

 struggle to keep going throughout the sum- 

 mer. Then, again, almost every county in On- 

 tario has hundreds of acres of dead or non- 

 productive areas, which once produced a heavy 

 crop of timber, and without timber they are 

 useless (unless the Government wanted it for 

 any purpose). They could be made to pro- 

 duce as they once did. Then in sections in 

 Muskoka, Parry Sound District, Nipissing, and 

 even in Algoma, thousands of acres could be re- 

 seeded or planted to timber again, and with our 

 past experience it would not be so ruthlessly 

 slaughtered as in the past. The farmers for a 

 few years can get to market on the roads as 

 they are being made from year to year, and 

 the money spent to greater advantage for farm- 

 er, town and city chap in the building up of our 

 resources. I would not know a million dollars 

 if I should or could see that much, but one 

 million dollars would do a lot of reforesting." 



C.\.\.\1'AS O.N'LY 



riioiu b.\ i;. 11. .Morion 



1 1 .V u n w oo n - e \' i-: rg r e e n . 



The Mailrona tree, pliotOfirapluHl near Olieinanius. 

 Vancouver Island. Ordinarily our hariiwoods slied 

 their leave.'^ on the approaeh of frost and the ever- 

 greens, witli tlie exception of the tamarack, retain 

 their leaves or needles. 



Tlie Madrona. Ijowever, is a genuine luirdwood 

 tliat is non-deciduous. 



