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who would be able to visit otherwise 

 inaccessible places in comfort and 

 safety! Another development at the 

 front is the transportation of injured 

 men by means of aeroplanes. I sup- 

 pose people are sometimes hurt in the 

 woods, are they not? Well, say a 

 man is badly injured off in the forest, 

 miles away from any place where he 

 could receive care and attention; all 

 you have to do is to pop him into your 

 aeoplane and take him out to the 

 hospital. There is no jarring from 

 rough roads, or anything of that sort, 

 just a steady, even motion, and you 

 can imagine what a great thing that 

 would be for the chap who had been 

 hurt. You could get him to the 

 hospital in a very few minutes. There 

 is no doubt at all, gentlemen, tra- 

 velling by aeroplane is the most 



comfortable way in the world. 

 Carrying Food 



Another instance of the usefulness 

 of aeroplanes is that of the siege of 

 Kut-el-amara. When that city was 

 besieged by the Turks food was taken 

 in by means of aeroplanes, as you all 

 know. Of course they didn't get 

 enough in, but that was not the fault 

 of the machines, it was because they 

 didn't have enough of them. 



MR. FLETCHER: How much 

 weight can you carry? 



MAJOR KENNEDY: Well, I can 

 take a machine, an ordinary machine 

 which is not what would be considered 

 up-to-date at all, and carry a ton 

 with comfort. 



(To be concluded in March issue). 



How Uncle Sam Attacks the Wood 

 Fuel Problem 



By A. F. Hawes 



United States Department of Agriculture. Address given at Annual Meeting of Canadian 

 Forestry Association, Montreal, February 7th, under title "The Wood 

 Fuel Campaign in the United Stales'' 



Organizing Idle Labor— Cut-a- Cord Clubs — Sawbuck Clubs 

 For Boys. A Striking Article of Practical Suggestion. 



The fuel wood campaign in the 

 United States is now assuming fairly 

 large and definite proportions. It 

 was started and is iDcing conducted 

 by the Department of Agriculture 

 and the Fuel Administration co- 

 operating, and has for its definite 

 object the substitution of wood for 

 coal just as far as is practicable. It 

 is not expected that the use of wood 

 in the cities will be materially in- 

 creased; or that the railroads will be 

 burdened with wood since it is more 

 bulky than coal, in proportion to its 

 heating value. Neither is there any 

 object in substituting wood in the 

 vicinity of coal mines. Team-hauled 

 wood should replace railroad-hauled 

 coal as far as possible. Farmers and 



other woodland owners throughout 

 eastern United States have gradually 

 drifted into the use of coal while 

 plenty of wood in their own wood- 

 land went to waste. This practice 

 should be discouraged. Villages and 

 small cities in the vicinity of wood- 

 lands can greatly increase their use of 

 wood. In a few cases cities of moder- 

 ate size may be supplied by wood 

 hauled by auto truck or by water. 



The coal shortage on January 1, 

 1918, was estimated at 50,000 000 

 tons. Assuming a cord of wood on 

 an average equal in its heating 

 capacity to two-thirds of a ton of coal, 

 an increased cut of 75,000,000 cords 

 would be necessary to meet this de- 

 ficiency. 



