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The Best of Horses Are Raised on Montana's Farms. 



all the schools in the state have at least a six months term, while practically all 

 of the town schools are in session for nine or ten months. It was disclosed by a 

 recent comparative study of public school systems in the United States, conducted 

 through the Russel Sage Foundation, that many states with more than double the 

 population of Montana, expend less for the maintenance of their schools. Only four 

 out of the forty-eight states of the Union exceed Montana in the per capita expenditure 

 for children of school age. Only three states west of the Mississippi river have 

 public school property of as great a value, in proportion to the school population, 

 as Montana. While the average annual salary paid to public school teachers in the 

 United States is given as $485, the average paid in Montana is $645, an amount 

 equalled by only six other states in the Union. During the past five years more 

 new school houses have been built in this state than in any other and the progress 

 of education in Montana continues strongly upward. 



The character of any people depends, to a large extent, upon their environment 

 and their ability to earn the means necessary to live in comfort and contentment 

 In this matter, Montana is proud of the superior position it holds. Industrial condi- 

 tions in this state are good, not only for the employer but likewise for the employee. 

 As an instance of this, attention might be called to the fact that in the city of Butte, 

 where more than seventeen thousand miners find employment, the average wage paid is 

 higher than in any other industrial community of like size in the United States, if 

 not in the world. Good working conditions prevail throughout the State and the 

 eight hour day is almost universal in industrial activities. 



The agricultural growth of Montana has been one of the marvels of this great 

 age of achievement. A man who twenty-five years ago would have said that 

 Montana would in 1915 produce 33,000,000 bushels of wiieat or six million bushels 

 of potatoes, the big portion from non-irrigated land, would have been laughed to 



