The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1916-07-27
WHO'S GOT
THE MONEY
In Four Staples Alone the Farm
ers of Western Canada Pro-
duced 403 Million DOL
lars in 1915.

The Calgary (Alberta) printers have
q house organ, called ''The Magnet"
and in its columns few weeks ago
onDeared an article entitled who's Got
tho Money!" 1t was cleHerly written,
and hut for it's length, the writer would
have been pleased to have copied the
article IN its entirety. The purpose for
which this article Is published, how
,ever that of letting the readers of the
manner know Of the great progress that
ds bcipg made In agriculture in West
eru Canada, win be served by copying
a norton OF the article. Many Of the
raoders of this paper doubtless have
friends In one Of the three provinces
Manitoba, Saskatchewan or Alberta,
enG they will be interested in feeling
that their friends are enjoying
norton of the wealth that has come
70 Western Canada farmers as a re-
suIt of careful filling of a soil prodi-
pal in everything that goes to make
good grain, cattle, horses, hogs and
sheep.
Reproducing from the article:
The Government does not produce
money. II can stamp zone Dollar" on
a slip of white paper, and we accept
q ot a dollars worth, but neither the
noper nor the printing are worth
conner. What gives 1t value is the
proi1ise Of the people of Canada which
stands behind the printed slip, and our
fuith In that promise.
Now do you know who's got the
money?
LET ms put 1t into figures. The farm
ern of. Alberta. saskatchewan and
Manitoba last year raised 34294S,OO0
hnyhels of wheat. If we take for an
average So cents q bushel in Manitoba,
81 cents in Saskatchewan and 20 cents
I'm Alberta the seasons wheat crop was
\ worth S2SO,629000. Add to this an
n oot crop of 334S $4,000 bushels,
n worth 500, 457. 600; Il barley crop of 3D.
M 200 bushels, worth $15,S71 900, and
flax crop of 10,559.O00 bushels, worth
"A s11. S43. 600, and you find that on these
\ four staples alone the farmers of West
NJ rrn Canada produced wealth OF
n S4G1 100000.
Please note that this wealth is In
money. 1t is not in real estate at in
H Aated values, industrial stocks taat are
'i half water and the rest air, fictitious
grodwiIIs or unsaleabie merchandise.
II is in hard cash, or-which is better
hard wheat.
These figures are only for the staple
"a grain productions. They do not in
rludp the millions OF dollars represent
y by the live stock and diirying indus
M tries. or the additional millions includ-
. ed IN rhH root, fruit. and garden crops
.4Thr creampries of Saskatchewan, for
lins:nnc". produced more buttermilk
NJ and lee cream last year than their
y totuI production amounted TO six years
n:n. The milk. butter, and cheese pro-
n S,l,ction of Alberta for 1915 was valued
BIT over eleven million dollars. The pO'
|[tar0 crop Of the three provinces was
worth five millions and Il half. Corn
E rnd alfalfa-comparutive new crops
thnrged with tremendous possibilities
* L-umOunte,l To over round million.
Owen hOncy--you didn't know we
3 Baiscd honey (the bee kinO in this
X country, ,lid you ?-Nanitoba produced
* bO5CO0 pounds in 1915, and there isn't
"a bee in the province that doesn't
+ swear he's better hOney-sOrter than
in California or Washington.
% That's where the money is; in the
jeans Of our honest friend the farmer,
1who was too slow to get into the cities
= when the rest OF ,is saw shortcuts to
Il VEealth who hadn't imagination enough
10 think man can make money with
4 put earning it, and who was too dull
10 know that hard work is foolish.
We'll, he has the laugh now. Likewise
e. fhe NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..