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heat haze that lay on the forest. Capt. 

 Maxwell, in spite of a still misbehaving 

 engine, had to give up the water and 

 steer a compass course. We came down 

 in the lake where the gasoline had been 

 cached, added 15 gallons to the 5 left in 

 our tanks, and in the late afternoon start- 

 ed on our last leg of 30 miles to Remi 

 T^ake. The visibility was worse than 

 ever. 



Maxwell was still steering by compass 

 but an east wind sprang up and blew us 

 miles out of our course. He climbed 

 down to take observations and found we 

 were below Kapuskasing, 14 miles from 

 Remi Lake, so he headed along the rail- 

 road tracks and got home safely with the 

 gasoline tanks all registering zero ! Nar- 

 row enough !" — From Aeroplane and 

 Motor Age. 



Quebec Sends Four Foresters to Europe 



The appreciation of the Quebec Gov- 

 ernment of the necessity for the practice 

 of forestry on its non-agricultural lands, 

 and of the need for thoroughly trained 

 foresters to make its programme effec- 

 tive, has recently been further evidenced. 

 Four of the employees of the Provincial 

 Forest Service, Messrs. Guay, Landry, 

 Baillairge and Lussier — graduates of the 

 Forest School at Laval University — have 

 recently been sent to Europe by the Pro- 

 vincial Government, to spend a period of 

 six months in making advanced studies 

 of forestry practise and forest utilization 

 in France, Belgium, Switzerland and 

 Germany. One of the men will extend 

 his studies to cover a period in Sweden. 

 Among the lines of investigation to 

 which particular attention will be paid by 

 these men will be methods of lumber- 

 ing, saw-milling, silvicultural practice, 

 reforestation, aerial photography, forest 

 research, wood technology and wood 

 utilization, including the development of 

 markets for hardwood species through 

 small wood-using industries. 

 Europe and Canada. 



While forestry conditions in Europe 

 are widely different from those in Can- 

 ada, the general principles of the science 

 of forestry are the same the world over, 

 though it is of course necessary to adapt 

 the practice to local conditions in every 

 case. In Europe, the practice of inten- 

 sive methods of forestry — the systematic 

 growing of wood crops — has been a mat- 

 ter of development through centuries, 

 and foresters from other cotmtries can 

 learn much of direct value to them in a 

 study of methods and conditions there. 



A period of study in the forests of 

 Continental Europe is. for example, a 



regular part of the curriculum of Eng- 

 lish and Scottish forest schools which 

 prepare men for the practice of forestry 

 in the United Kingdom, India, and other 

 parts of the British Empire. The de- 

 sirabiht}'' of such study was particularly 

 emphasized at the Imperial Forestry 

 Conference, held last summer in London. 



Quebec is setting the pace in this direc- 

 tion, with the prospect that a number 

 of scholarships may be established, under 

 which several Quebec foresters will be 

 sent annually to Europe for intensive 

 study of particular problems. The value 

 of such a programme in developing and 

 broadening out men for wider and more 

 useful fields of activity at home is self- 

 evident. The four men sent this year to 

 Europe by the Quebec Government will, 

 upon their return, take positions of re- 

 .sponsibility in the Forest School at Laval 

 and in the Quebec Forest Service, thus 

 at the same time strengthening the 

 courses of forestry instruction and in- 

 creasing the effectiveness of the Provin- 

 cial I'^orest Service in solving its pro- 

 l)lem of how best to retain the groat areas 

 of non-ngricultural Crown timber lands 

 of the Province in a condition to produce 

 successive crops of the more valuable 

 timber species. To accomplish this with- 

 in the limitations of practice sot by the 

 surrouMcHng oconomic coiuHtions will tax 

 the best olVorts of a largo statY of the 

 most thoroughly trained and experienced 

 foresters, for a period oi many vcars. 



The example sot ]>y Quebec in this 

 direction may well serve as an object les- 

 son to other (^ovonnnont agencies. Do- 

 minion and provincial, wliich are engag- 

 ed in the administration of Crown tim- 

 ber lanils. 



