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Egypt, and you certainly get ex- 

 tremes in flying there. In mid-sum- 

 mer you get the heat all right, then 

 when you go up three or four thousand 

 feet, which is a normal elevation for 

 flying, it is quite cold. Up higher 

 it is very cold, and if you stay up long 

 enough you freeze. One thing you 

 would have to look out for over here 

 would be to keep your radiators warm. 

 You might fmd it a bit hard to get 

 started in very cold weather, but not 

 if you keep your machine in a heated 

 building. 



A MEMBER: Do you think there 

 would be any trouble experienced in 

 landing in the Rockies? 



MAJOR KENNEDY: All you 

 need is a small piece of land of the 

 dimensions mentioned, and I should 

 think you could find that unless you 

 have nothing but up-and-down peaks. 

 I don't remember just how high the 

 Rocky Mountains are, but we have 

 flown over some of the highest peaks 

 in Europe without any trouble. So 

 far as space is concerned, I would 

 undertake to land jn the city of 

 Montreal, and not kill myself. I 

 might spoil the machine but I could 

 save myself all right. 



MR. HOWARD : How about land- 

 ing grounds? Would you sometimes 

 have to go very great distances with- 

 out finding a place where you could 

 land? 



MAJOR KENNEDY: That de- 

 pends largely on your height — how 

 high you are flying— but if you are up 

 5,000 feet you have a choice of ten 

 square miles to land on. Of course 

 accidents will happen, but they are 

 usually due to people choosing the 

 wrong places at which to land, an 

 error in judgment, you know. But I 

 should think you would get one or 

 two small lakes in an area of ten 

 square miles in this country, where 

 you could make a safe landing. 



The Association was organized rather 

 laic in 1917 and therefore had not an 

 opporlunity to perfe^'t its organiza- 

 tion for the full period of the fire 

 hazard. This Association comprises 

 those limits on the north shore of the 

 St. Lawrence around Quebec and in 

 the Saguenay district. The report of 

 President Robert B. Kernan outlines 

 the construction of a system of look- 

 outs and telephones, and the use of 

 motor cycles in open and extended 

 districts. The cost of patrol and 

 fighting fires worked out on tbo 

 economical basis ot .0031 dolhrs per 

 acre, the total expenditure for 1917 

 amounted to S19.705.73. The total 

 area patrolled for members of the 

 Association was 9,88S squ;Me miics. 



LAURENTIAN'S FINE YEAR 



The first Annual Report of the 

 Laurentian Forest Protective Asso- 

 ciation of the Province of Quebec 

 makes a remarkably good showing. 



A Partnership Suggestion! 



The Canadian Forestry Associa- 

 tion is not a Government institu- 

 tion in any degree. Neither is it 

 affiliated to any commercial in- 

 terests. 



Each year's programme is fitted 

 to each year's receipts. Many 

 important enterprises that should 

 be started at once must wait upon 

 the receipt of membership fees. 

 The Association has no endowment, 

 no reserve funds. Your fee and the 

 next man's fee, decide how much 

 work the Association shall do in 

 1918. 



The copies of the Forestry Jour- 

 nal sent to each member alone cost 

 over 60 cents a year, for printing 

 and engraving. When a member's 

 fees remain unpaid, it means that 

 the general funds of the Associa- 

 tion must be drawn upon to meet 

 the cost of his Forestry Journal. 

 Nor doe<i this take into account the 

 fact that the Journal is only a 

 part, a minor part, of Membership. 

 Each member is an equal partner 

 in the main business of the Asso- 

 ciation, the educational and pro- 

 pagandist campaigns that are build- 

 ing up big dividends for the future 

 of the Dominion. 



