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Canadian Forestry Journal, December, igi6 



Illustrated Lectures in French 



By an arrang-ement recently com- 

 pleted between the Canadian Forestry 

 Association and Mr. G. C. Piche, Cliief 

 of the Quebec Forest Service, a series 

 of illustrated public lectures will be de- 

 livered in Quebec Province beginning 

 early in the New Year and extending 

 through February. Where advisable, 

 bi-lingual addresses will be given, but 

 in communities where French-speaking 

 citizens predominate a French lecturer 

 will be exclusively employed. The 

 Canadian Forestry Association will 

 manage the undertaking, supplying 

 stereopticon and equipment, advertis- 

 ing matter, etc., without cost to local 

 authorities. , 



The first lectures will be held at 

 Windsor, Stoke Centre, St. Camille, 

 and St. George, in the Eastern Town- 

 ships, and other dates will be arranged 

 so as to reach the greatest number of 

 people and at centres which promise 

 best results. Suggestions as to other 

 localities, dates, etc., are invited by the 

 Secretary. 



The topics will follow much the same 

 lines as other lectures given through 

 the Association, a discussion of the ex- 

 tent and value of the forest posses- 

 sions, the importance of the wood- 

 using industries, the public losses 

 through forest fires, and how to elimi- 

 nate them, the care of woodlots, etc., 

 etc. One hundred lantern slides will 

 be used. 



Those who can place a number of 

 these French booklets in the hands of 

 French-speaking boys and girls of 13- 

 years and upward are asked to corre- 

 spond with the Secretary of the Asso- 

 ciation. 



As the Association's funds are able 

 to provide for only 5,000 copies, kny 

 member of the Association may under- 

 take by private subscription to greatly 

 increase this number. 



A Forest-Book for French Children. 



The Canadian Forestry Associatin 

 will have ready for distribution about 

 January 1st a 32-page illustrated book- 

 let in French telling of the forest, its 

 dependent industries, the origin of for- 

 est fires, the care and value of the 

 woodlot, etc., etc. 



There will be about 30 photographic 

 engravings, the whole resembling very 

 closely the "Boy Scout's Forest-Book" 

 which had a circulation throughout the 

 Dominion of 15,000 copies, going to 

 every Boy Scout and hundreds of 

 school teachers and pupils. 



The recent announcement that $1,- 

 000,000 will be spent by the Dominion 

 Government in the construction of an 

 aeroplane factory, probably at Toronto,, 

 lends special interest to the report that 

 the proposed aeroplane station to be 

 established by the United States Gov- 

 ernment at Duluth, Minnesota, will be 

 made the basis of an aero forest fire 

 patrol system. The state forester of 

 Wisconsin has already secured excel- 

 lent results from the use of an aero- 

 plane for the patrol of a large area of 

 forest in the northern part of the state, 

 and it is expected that similar good re- 

 sults will be secured in Minnesota, 

 from the co-operative arrangement 

 which has been approved by the com- 

 mander of the Minnesota Naval Militia. 

 The main object of this patrol will, of 

 course, be the prompt discovery and 

 location of forest fires. The telephone 

 system which has been developed will 

 enable the forest rangers to be notified 

 at once in case a fire is located, so- 

 that they can at once take all necessary 

 steps for its extinguishment. State 

 Forester Cox, of Minnesota, estimates 

 that at least $45,000 can be saved the 

 state annually with the installation of 

 an air patrol. - 



In view of the great importance of 

 Ontario as a timber-producing pro- 

 vince, and of the enormous damage 

 that has resulted in the past from for- 

 est fires, it is to be hoped that some 

 co-operative arrangement may be pos- 

 sible, in connection with the testing of 

 machines and training of men, under 

 which a thorough test may be made of 

 the practicability of using aeroplanes.. 



