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Miles City

county-seat of Custer co., Mont., 114 miles N. E. of Billings, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, and Northern Pacific railroads. Center of extensive cattle and farming district, and market for horses. Has manufactures of saddlery, woolen goods. Has fine buildings and park. Pop. (1915) 7,621; (1920) 7,937.

Milford

a town of New Haven co., Conn., 9 miles S. W. of New Haven, on Long Island Sound, on Wepowaug riv river, New York, New Haven, and Hartford railroad. Summer resort resort, with Taylor library, great memorial bridge, soldiers' monument. Manufactures straw hats, silverware, electrical supplies. Pop. (1910) 4,366; (1920) 10,193.

Milford Haven

FIRST MAR-

Militarism

a term principally used in reference to the policy of maintaining great standing armies. The development of militarism in Europe was the basic cause of the World War.

Military Academy

UNITED STATES. See UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY.

MILITARY AERONAUTICS.

Militia

STATE. The following table shows the authorized strength of the regularly organized militia, or National Guard, in the several States and Territories, 1920:

Michigan.

Pennsylvania Texas Other States ..

Total.

The actual strength was about 50,000.

See MILITARY ORGANIZATION, UNITED STATES.

Milk Fever

a fever which sometimes arises in females when first milk is secreted after child-birth.

Milk Snake

a harmless snake of a grayish ash color, with three rows of dark spots along the back and sides.

It is found in the Northern and Middle United States.

MILKY WAY. See GALAXY.

Mill

a money of account in the United States, being the thousandth part of a dollar , or tenth part of a cent. The mill, however, is not coined.

Millet

the common name for a great number of cereal plants, the grains of which are used as food, and for making a kind of beer, in various countries. ican artist and author; born in Matta-

Milliard

the French collective

Milligram

the thousandth part of a gramme; 0.154 English grains. measure of capacity, containing the thou- MILLILITER (mil'li-le-tur), a French MILLING. See FLOUR MILL. cubic inch. ure equal to the thousandth part of a