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Winter Feeding of Cattle. 



eight-hour day for underground miners has been written into the state constitution 

 and an eiglit-hour day is in force on all public and practically all private works — 

 child labor is prohibited and truancy laws are well enforced, while the law prohibits 

 employers from requiring women employees to work more than nine hours a day in 

 certain classes of work; an efficiently administered workmen's compensation law has 

 been placed in successful operation at a lower administrative cost than has been 

 attained by any other state in the Union; the promotion of the dairy industry is in 

 the hands of a state dairy department; an efficient and well managed agricultural 

 experiment station, with sub-stations in various parts of the state, carries on exten- 

 sion work among the farmers of Montana, and good-road building has become the rule 

 under the energetic activity of the state highway commission. 



Intelligent aid is extended agricultural operations of all kinds, and every effort is 

 made to insure the success of the new settler. Important among the agencies active 

 in this work are 'the county agriculturists, who are in reality county agricultural 

 teachers, whose pupils are the farmers of their respective counties. These men, who 

 are paid jointly by the state and the federal government under the Smith-Lever Act, 

 assist the individual farmer in working out his particular problems and already their 

 influence is being felt in the direction of better farming and increased production. 



The Montana State Fair, held each year at Helena, is a great statewide agricul- 

 tural exposition, which attracts visitors not only from all over Montana, but from 

 every state in the Union and is generally recognized as the best agricultural show 

 in the country. Practically every county in the state exhibits at this annual event, 

 which arouses much competition among the farmers of the state, and is an educa- 

 tional institution of incalculable value. The standing of the Montana State Fair is 

 indicated by a remark made by the late James J. Hill to President Taft at the 1909 

 State Fair, when the great railroad builder assured the nation's chief executive that 

 this was the finest agricultural display he had ever seen. 



In short, Montana, while offering to the honest and energetic of all classes 

 unequalled opportunity to better their condition in life also strives valiently and 

 successfully toward those happy conditions which make life more worth living and 

 without which success in a material way becomes scarcely worth while. 



