REGULATIONS AS Tfl OF 8TATE LAW WILL PREVAIL DUR ING FIRST MONTH OF 8EAS0N. Federal regulations for the protec tion of migratory birds, the most im portant of which prohibit the hunting of wildfowl from sunset to sunrise, will not take effect until after Oct 1. This is official. An extract from a pamphlet of the department of agri culture relating to the regulations states: "The regulations, as finally adopted, will become effective on or after Oct. 1, 1913, whenever approved by the president. Twenty Ducks a Day. This means Montana hunters will be required during September to conform only to the state law, which allows hunting night and day. The state law limits bags to twenty ducks a day. After Oct. 1, Montana hunters can shoot wildfowl only between sunrise and sunset. Because of the conflict ing opinions held as to when sunrise and sunset occurred, the Record wrote the bureau of biological survey and was advised in reply that actual time governs and not standard time; that "in fair weather anyone can determine when the sun rises and sets and in cloudy weather the time can be ob tained from the almanac or by mak ing proper allowance for variation from standard time. The text of the reply, written by T. S. Palmer, acting chief of the biologi cal survey, follows: What Will Govern. "In reply to your letter of Aug. 13, addressed to Mr. H. W. Henshaw, chief of the biological survey, I beg to say that the provision in regard to night hunting under the regulations protecting migratory birds refers to local time, or sun time, and varies with different localities. In fair weather anyone can determine when the sun rises, and sets and in cloudy weather the time can be obtained from the almanac or by making proper allow ance for variation from standard time. "It is not essential that hunting should begin and end simultaneously at all points in the state. While such would be the case in Montana by adopting the standard time of sunset and sunrise, this same method in Texas would make a difference of two hours, inasmuch as points in eastern Texas are governed by central time, while El Paso, for certain purposes, uses Pacific time, which is two hours later. "The simplest method, therefore, seems to be the adoption of actual time of sunset for each locality." C.C.JEFFRBY Manufacturer of and Dealer in HARNE88 8ADDLE8 TURF GOODS Etc. All Repairs Given Prompt Attention Sign of the Big Collar 109 Main St WANTED BEEF HIDES SHEEP PELTS THE OLD RELIABLE Lewistown Hide & Fur Co. 207 Fifth Ave. A. L. Hawkins, Mgr } LEWISTOWN DENTAL PARLORS Health and Beauty Hinge on Good Teeth Let us inspect them and if they need our care, we will do the work SKILLFULLY and at a REASONABLE PRICE. DR. H. L. MILLS, ROOMS 7-8 EMPIRE BANK BLK TELEPHONE 730 LEWI8TOWN, MONTANA MALINGERER8 OUTWITTED. Professed Deaf and Dumb Made to Talk. London Globe: The treatment of malingerers is a somewhat rare in cident in the work of a civil medical man. In the army this branch of med ical diagnosis has always been well to the front. The soldier, weary of field days, "fed up" with some insalu brious tropical station, or under or ders for foreign service, has always proved a certain source of trouble to the army medical officer. Take the case of the professed deaf and dumb man. Of course, under or dinary circumstances, writes a sur geon-major, a soldier does not become deaf and dumb. To be aware of this fact, however, does not of necessity mean that the crime can be proved against the man in a moment. In the case of the man under consideration the patient, when asked ° question, would stare straight to his front in stony silence. Upon his diet sheet each morning was written a tempting array of hospital comforts such as T. Atkins loves—rice pudding, bacon and eggs and even beer. This list of lux uries could be studied by all who cared to read. Day by day the medical orderly brought nothing to the poor patient but milk. Each morning, in sympar thetic voice, the officer inquired of the orderly, in front of the patient, wheth er each and every-article of diet had been religiously provided. The order ly, with truth written upon every lineament of his features, glibly an swered, "Yess, sir." At first the poor deaf and dumb man's face would red den, but never a word could he hear or speak. There is, however, a limit to all endurance. And it was for that limit that the officer waited. Fully convinced that the orderly had been bagging the comforts for him self the patient could stand it no long er. "He's a liar, sir!" gasped he at THE LABOR WORLD There are more than 20,000,000 per sons in the United States engaged in farming. Linotype operators in Switzerland have a minimum wage of $7.25 a week. Adelaide, Australia, motor drivers demand $13.50 a week. Arizona, New Jersey and the Philippines require the licensing of chauffeurs. Shoe workers pay the president of their international union $5,500 a year. New Mexico regulates the hours of work as to railroads by law. 1 In France minors may work ten hours a day or 60 hours a week. Chinese painters at Darlin, Man churia, are paid thirty-five cents a day. International Electrical workers pay their president an annual salary of $4,700. In Germany the Coppersmiths' union has 100 locals, with a total member ship of 5,266. Massachusettse state printing is now done under the eight-hour law. The maximum working day for wom en in Germany is now ten instead of eleven hours. The Ohio constitution confers a gen eral power on the legislature to fix the hours of employment. More than 2,000 locksmiths in Vienna, Austria, have secured an in crease in pay and a reduction in hours. In Italy children may work eleven hours a day. The headquarters of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, located at Indianapolis, Ind., cost $73,000, with m OF INTEREST TO FARMERS Husbandman: The admonition is to raise more hogs. This newspaper has been figuring out that it would pay to raise hogs for twenty and more years. We had a season that many years ago when soft wheat on the Gallatin val ley went to 35 cents per bushel. We then commenced to urge the greater production of hogs, for at that price, wheat is the most profitable hog feed that can be had. However, soft wheat did not remain at 35 cents for a very long period. Nor did wheat remain the staple ration of the hog for a very great period of time. But the hog has stayed in fashion and promises to be the chief livestock product of the state in a very few years. Alfalfa which is the forage plant, has strange enough become a great hog feed. It sounds strange to one from the state where they have to be shown, to talk about a forage plant for 'hogs. The Mis last. "I've had nothing but milk for a week." Result: Immediate discharge from hospital and a court-martial. Then there is the deaf man who can not withstand the temptation to turn his head when a coin is suddenly dropped upon the floor behind him. Snamming lunacy is, perhaps, the commonest form of attempt to obtain a discharge from the army on medical grounds. This often succeeds. There was a case in India, the writer recalls with amusement. Each morning the guard over "the insane" would rush in and hold the dangerous patient while the medical officer visited him. The struggle that ensued was invaria bly fierce. A lusty officer took charge of the case. The door was opened. . The guard, as usual, prepared for battle. "Hold!" commanded the officer. "Leave him alone!" Walking boldly Into the cell, he approached the patient unattended. "Now then, my man, what are you going to do?" asked he. "Please, sir," replied the patient, grin ning, "I wouldn't touch you for any thing." Pains in the back are generally sup posed to puzzle the army surgeon most. But there are also wiser men who try more subtle ailments. A sol dier with an incurable headache is none too easy an individual to tackle. I have in my memory such a case. The soldier concerned slept well, ate exceedingly well and never showed any rise of temperature. Yet he com plained of excessive headache, which apparently no drugs could alleviate. He was passed on from one medical officer to another. Each one was convinced that he had no headache. How to prove it was the dfficulty. At last the man was brought to a court-martial. The opinion (for what it was worth) of a strong com bination of medical officers was con sidered by the court to be sufficient. The malingerer received three months imprisonment. He served his time. The headache was heard no more. estimated value at present time of $100,000. In France the minimum rate for mil liners is 3 cents and rarely ever ex ceeds 7 cents per hour. Five years ago the organized work ers in Russia's woodmaking industries numbered less than 10,000. Auto factories are said to be healthy places for workmen because of elec tricity employed. Miners in the United Kingdom have worked, on the average during the last ten years, 5.24 days per week. As the number of cotton mills in crease in Lancashire, England, the miners find a great difficulty in get ting operatives. Plasterers in Switzerland have se cured a reduction in hours and a mini mum wage of 18 cents an hour. Letter carriers in Russia are paid from $12.50 to $17.50 a month. Employment bureaus have been pro vided for in the Philippines by the government. A new form of protection for wages of contractors' employes is in force in Louisiana. In the manufacture of corsets, arti ficial flowers, feathers and plumes and steel pens, more than 80 per cent of the wage earners are women. The International Brewery Workers' union now has a membership of near ly 60,000 in the United States and Can ada. Thirty-two per cent of the 7,000,000 working women in this country are un der age. sourian never dreamed of anything but corn for hogs. In our boyhood days hogs ran at large and not un frequently fattened on the nuts and acorns that fell from the forest trees A few people pastured hogs on red clover fields, but the hog only just lived on red clover. It took something better to make thq hog fat. But, strange to say, alfalfa will fatten the Montana porker alright. It is better to mix in some grain, peas or some thing on the grain order, but it is pos sible to make alfalfa hay constitute at least two-thirds of the hog's ration during the feeding period, and the oth er third need not be more than half grain. We have seen nice fat hogs made by feeding one-tenth chopped grain and the remainder alfalfa. In the years to come the hog is slated to go to the front with alfalfa as the foundation and some grain and roots mixed in. We do not undertake to say just what the ration will be. It may be one thing in one locality and in another something else, but We will use alfalfa as the principal feed. This will insure the upbuilding of the soil and the continued increase of produc tion. Why Don't the Horses Go? "The passing of the horse" was duly announced in the public prints even before the pleasure automobile was a pronounced success. A few years later when motor cars became plenty, the horse again had a period of being "passed" and when the motor truck became a practical utility his obituary was once more read into the "Facts for the Family" sections of thousands' of daily and weekly papers. But ap-j parently he doesn't go; in fact, in! some of the cities there are more cf, him today than ever before. Whether our noble friend prefers city life to a' home in the country, or whether our| street traffic is growing so rapidly that the addition of thousands of tons' capacity of motor trucks barely keeps up with that growth, we leave for our readers to decide. It will, however, be a surprise to anyone who takes the trouble to study into the matter to discover how slow ly the horse is retreating from our large cities. In Chicago, for instance, there are now 72,939 horses employed, or only 287 less than one year ago. In Boston there are only 50 horses less in use than 10 years ago; Baltimore skows a decrease of 873 in 7 years; Cincinnati reports only 153 less than 10 years ago, while Minneapolis has actually 158 and St. Louis 730 more than ten years ago. It should be noted, however, that the city carriage horse hns practically gone; in fact, the cartoons are already picturing the occasional driving horse as a curiosity, and he is now relegated chietly to omnibus and funeral work-, in which he is gradually losing ground. The riding horse will remain for a time, but hangs on a slender thread, for some new exercise fad is likely to displace him at short notice. The farmer is rapidly reducing the num ber of horses on his place, going to town in an automobile, and plowing more and more with mechanical pow er. Nevertheless, the price of a good working horse today is more than 10 years ago, partly because there is lit tle demand for any but the best qual ity. Thirty years ago there were something like 80,000 horses drawing street cars in this country, now there are only 2,500. In most industries so radical a change is usually accom panied by a shift to another, usually a new occupation, but in the case of the horse, where will he go, when the motor truck and light traction engine come Into their own, as they surely will?—H. H. Windsor in the Septem ber Popular Mechanics Magazine. The Meat Problem. Ten years ago the statement that the United States would ever become a beef-importing country would have been laughed at. Yet a ship load of "chilled beef" from Australia arrived at San Francisco the other day and was sold at prices lower than those of the local product. American beef exports have dwindled almost to noth ing. Americans are the greatest meat eaters in the world and we have in the United States 29,000,000 more peo ple to feed than we had twenty years ago. The annual consumption of meat per head of population is today 162 pounds, of which beef and veal con tribute more than half. The average consumption is twenty-five pounds greater than Great Britain's and forty pounds more than that of Germany or France, says Dry Farming. Obviously our meat troubles lie much deeper than the packing houses. We must Increase production or face a meat famine and a day of higher prices even than now. The open range Is gone in most states and is going rapidly in all others. The beef problem lies In the hands of the small farmer who combines agriculture with stock raising. There is need for the raising of few cattle by many men, instead of many cattle by few men. This is the field of the dry farmer of the future. With the advent of sure feed crops, the silo and modern tillage methods for the handling of moisture, he is in a position to take full advan tage of the present scarcity of beef cattle. On his shoulders also rests the real future of the meat problem of America. Lessons From Little Denmark. It is a good thing for American farmers as well as other people In this new, growing, experimental coun try of ours, to get a perspective on themselves occasionally. As the old Scotch bard exclaimed: ''Oh wad some day the giftle gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us; It wad frae mony a blunder frae us, And foolish notion." One of the best ways to get this many-sided view of ourselves and our efforts kt subduing and cultivating the soil ,is to study the agriculture of other nations, especially older nations. Little Denmark can give us many good lessons if we will but study them with an open mind. In any case thiB brief sketch of some of the things the l D anish farmer has to contend with' will be of interest to all. It is from an address by the Hon.' Maurice Francis Egan, minister from the United States to the court of Den mark. \ "Denmark is almost entirely devoted to agriculture. It has no mines, no potential water power, no great mills. It has existed, and it seems as if it must exist, solely by means of the brain and brawn of its people applied to a soil that would be considered by the Pennsylvanians as ungrateful and in a climate that would drive a Louisianian to madness and suicide. | On the soil and the climate it is only necessary to say that there are only 16 weeks in the year when the cattle are let out in tbe open. In May tbey| are allowed in the fields, carefully: tethered, so that they may consume only a fixed quantity of grass or clover. When this grass or clover Is high, In July, they go back to their stalls to be fed on grains that the tall grass may not be wasted by them. In August, after the harvest, they go out to remain in the open, still care fully tethered in thg interest of econ omy, until the first of October. "The scientific treatment of the cow is never relaxed for a moment. It has become a habit with the large and small farmer and bis dependents. 1 The cow to him is a milking machine,' whose power of production is to bo^ approached exactly as if she were of steel or iron. "The Danish farmer takes few chances. The unhappy chance he has to take is from the foot-and-mouth dis ease, against which he and his gov ernment use the most drastic meas ures. He complains that he can not control his German and Swedish neighbors, or that birds carry the con tagion, or that occasionally there is a criminally foolish neighbor, like the one not far from Copenhagen who re cently concealed the existence of this dreaded disease in his barns until after he had given a birthday party to half the countryside. The consequences justify the vigilance with which Mr. Grut Hansen, of Kollekolle, the pro prietor of the finest farm in Denmark, guards his splendid herd. He ofTers bounties to his farm hands for keep ing visitors away from his cattle, so that the danger of contagion is minim ized. He carries his precautions against tuberculosis so far that each cow has her own drinking vessels, and every precaution is taken to keep her from infection should there be danger. Although the Bang test is not used at Kollekolle, the unusual amount, of light and air in the barns, and the care taken to keep the tem perature sufficiently and healthily low in winter speaks well for the condition of the herd. "After a consideration of the pres ent condition of this purely agricul tural country, made largely by com paring the soil, not very good, tind tiny climate, for seven months of the year very bad, with the wonderful results, I asked myself, 'What is the main cause of these results?' and the first part of the answer was, 'The misfor tunes of the Danes and their way of meeting these misfortunes.' Their ways of meeting them were by edu cation, cooperation, and the intelligent assistance of the government. It must be remembered that the government is a monarchy, but since 1848 a very constitutional monarchy, and the gov ernment never forgets that Denmark, like Caesar's Gauls, is divided into three parts—butter, bacon and eggs." j i j j ! I ; Slightly used Typewriter in excellent repair. Will sell at Factory Cost. Fergus County Democrat, Inc. Let Your Money Work For You fXPEN a savings account and you " will be astonished how fast mon ey will grow. We pay five per cent interest compounded semi-annually and accept accounts from one dollar up. A safety deposit box for twenty-one cents per month. Empire Bank and Trust Company Lewistown, Montana Edwin L. Norris, President George B. Conway, Secretary and Auditor H. B. Palmer, S. D. Cook, Vice President and Treasurer Vice-Pres. and Supt. of Agencies _ 1. A *L Dr. E. D. Nash, Chief Veterinarian MONTANA LIVESTOCK & CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY Helena, Montana Judith Gap, Mont., Aug. 12, 1913. Montana Livestock & Casualty Insurance Co., Helena, Mont. * • j Gentlemen: I have just received your draft for one thousand dollars in full payment of my claim for the death of my Shire stallion, "Klnsal Lad," No. 7726, insured by you for that amount on May 24th. I com mend your plan of insurance to every stockgrower, and thank you for your prompt settlement of the loss, just four days after the death of the horse. Yours truly, (Signed) A. A. COSLET. E. L. SHEPARD, District Manager LEWISTOWN, MONTANA Great White Way of Assyria, Shergat consists of one great mound, nearly a mile in length and more than half as broad. Near the northwestern corner is a high conical peak repre senting the ancient temple tower. The double city wall has been uncov ered. The parapet, even, remains; and along its outer edge are the small holes, through which the Assyrian warriors of nearly 4,000 years ago used to shoot their arrows at the enemy below. The city gates, wind ing so that the people without might not see through them into the city, have been uncovered. Temples con structed in honor of the god Assur and the goddess Ninip has been found and their plan revealed. While looking at their ruins, it requires but little imag ination to see the statues of the deities on their pedestals, the altar before them with the smoke of the offerings rising heavenward, the long, robed priests officiating and the crowds