Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-08-04
WHO'S GOT
The MONEY
In -Four Staples Alone the Farm
erS of Western Canada Pro-
duced 408 Million DOL
lars in 1915.

The Calgary (Alberta) printers have
a house organ, called 1.-THE Magnet"
and in it's columns few weeks ago
appeared an article entitled who's Got
the money!" It was cleverly written.
and but for its length, the writer would
have been pleased to have copied the
article in its entirety. The purpose
for which this article is published,
however, that of letting the readers
of the paper know of the great pro-
gress that is being made in agriculture
in Western Canada, will be served by
copying portion of the article. Many
of the readers of this paper doubtless
Fave friends in one of the three
provinces Manitoba, Saskatchewan or
Alberta, and they will be interested in
feeling that their friends are enjoying
:, portion of the wealth that has come
/ 10 Western Canada farmers as re
<'ii1 Of careful tiIIing of soil prodi-
raj in everything that goes to make
eooa grain, cattle, horses. hogs and
sheep.
/ Reproducing from the article:
] The Government does not produce
/ money. It can stamp zone Dollar on
/ a slip of white paper. and we accept
i it at a dollars worth. but neither the
T paper nor the printing are worth a
copper. What gives it value is the
promise of the people of Canada which
stands behind the printed slip, and our
j faith in that promise.
Now do you know who's got the
money?
Let US put it into figures. The farm
ers of Alberta, Saskatchewan and
Manitoba last year raised 342 ,94S,000
] bushels of wheat. If we take for an
average S5 cents bushel in Manitoba,
81 cents in Saskatchewan and 70 cents
4 in Alberta the seasons wheat crop was
worth $2S0,629,0O0. Add to this an
\ oat crop of 334. $4,000 bushels. worth
/ 95,457,000: barley crop of 1924
200 bushels, worth $15,871 900, and
flax crop of 1O,559, 600 bushels worth
SIS, ,843, 900. and you find that on these
four staples alone the farmers of
Western Canada produced wealth of
S407, 500 900.
Please note that this wealth is in
money. It is not in real estate at in
fated values. industrial stocks that are
half water and the rest air. fictitious
goodwilIs or unsaleabe merchandise.
1t is in hard cash. or-which is better
hard wheat
These figures are only for the staple
grain productions. They do not in
clude the millions of dollars represent
ed by the live stock and dairying indus
tries, or the additional millions includ-
ed in the root. fruit, and garden crops.
The creameries of Saskatchewan, for
instance produced more butternilk
] and ice cream last year than theii
total production amounted to six years
: ago. The milk. butter, and cheese pro
: luction of Alberta for 1915 was valued
1 at over eleven million dollars. The po
] tato crop of the three provinces was
= worth five millions and half. Corr
] and alfalfa-comparativ new crops
i charged with tremendous possibilitie:
Y amounted to over q round million
Ii Even honey you didn't know w
Il raised honey (the bee kind) in thii
e country, did you? Manitoba produced
Il 100000 pounds in 1915, and there ism
$ a bee in the province that doesn'
i swear he's a better honey-sorter thai
II anything in California or Washington
That's where the money is; in tn
jeans of our honest friend the farmer
who was too slow to get into the cite
! when the rest Of US saw shortcuts f
!. wealth; who hadn't Imagination enougl
II to think man can make money with
~ out earning it. and who was too dul
i to know that hard work is foolish
r. WE'LL he has the laugh now. Likewis
!. the muney.-Advertisem