Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1916-07-28
WHO'S GOT
THE MONEY
In -Four Staples Alone the Farm
ers of Western Canada Pro-
duced 4O8 Million DOL
lars in 1915.

The Calgary (Alberta) printers have
house organ, called "The Magnet"
and in its columns few weeks ago
appeared an article entitled "Who's Got
the money!" 1t 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
have friends in one of the three
provinces-AIanitoba, Saskatchewan or
Alberta, and they will be interested in
feeling that their friends are enjoying
portion of the wealth that has come
to Western Canada farmers as re-
suit of careful tilling of soil prodi-
gal in everything that goes to make
good grain, cattle, horses, hogs and
sheep.
Reproducing from the article:
The Government does not produce
money. 1t can stamp zone Dollar" on
a slip of white paper, and we accept
1t at dollars worth, but neither the
paper nor the printing are worth
copper. What gives it value Is the
promise Of the people of Canada which
stands behind the printed slip, and our
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 342,948,OOO
bushels of wheat. If we take for an
average IS cents bushel in Manitoba,
81 cents in SASKATCHEWAN, and - cents
in Alberta the seasons wheat crop was
worth $2SO,629,OOO. Add to this an
oat crop of 34,S4000O bushels, worth
$95, 457, 600; barley crop Of 35,254,-
200 bushels, worth $15,971, 900, and
flax crop of 1O,559, 600 bushels worth
SIS 900, and you find that on these
four staples alone the farmers of
Western Canada produced wealth Of
$4O7, 100000.
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
goodwills or unsaleabe merchandise.
It 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 buttermilk
and ice cream last year than their
total production amounted to six years
ago. The milk, butter, and cheese pro-
duction of Alberta for 1915 was valued
at over eleven million dollars. The po-
tato crop Of the three provinces was
worth five millions and half. Corn
and alfalfa-comparativ new crops,
charged with tremendous possibilities
amounted to over a round million.
Even honey you didn't know we
raised honey (the bee kindly in this
country, did you? Manitoba produced
10000 pounds in 1915, and there isn't
bee in the province that doesn't
swear he's better honey-sorter than
anything in California or Washington.
That's where the money is; in the
Jeans of our honest friend the farmer.
who was too slow to get into the cities
when the rest of us saw shortcuts to
wealth; who hadn't Imagination enough
to think a man can make money with
out earning it, and who was too dull
to know that hard work is foolish.
Well, he has the laugh now. Likewise
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