The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-08-18
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 tAlberta) printers have
q house organ, called 1.-THE Magnet
and In it's columns few weeks ago
appeared an article entitled who's Got
the Money! 1t was cleverly written,
and but for it's length, the writer would
have been pleased TO have copied the
article I'm It's entirety. The purpose for
which this article is published, how
ever, that OF letting the readers OF the
paper know of the great progress that
is being made In agriculture In west
ern Canada, will be served by copying
a portion of the article. Many OF the
readers OF this paper doubtless nave
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
to Western Canada farmers as q re-
suit OF careful filling 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
Ii ut dollars worth, but neither the
paper nor the printing are worth
copper. What gives ii 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 ii into figures. The farm
ers of Alberta, Saskatchewan ana
Manitoba last year raised $40, 94S,OOO
bushels of wheat. If we take for an
average 50 cents a bushel in Manitoba
81 cents in Saskatchewan and 70 cents
I'm Alberta the seasons wheat crop was
worth $280,629,000. Add to this an
oat crop of 334, $4,000 bushels,
worth 500, 457 900; q barley crop OF 3d.
254, 200 bushels, worth SIS, 81 900, and
flax crop of 10,559000 bushels. worth
$15,S43, 600, and you find that on these
four staples alone the farmers OF west
ern Canada produced a wealth OF
$4O7 100000.
Please note that this wealth is In
money. 1t is not In real estate at In
fiated values, Industrial stocks that are
half water and the rest air. fictitious
goodwills or unsuitable 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, fOl
instance, produced more buttermill
and ice cream last year than thel
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 Pc
tato crop of the three provinces wa
worth FIVE millions and half. Corr
and alfalfa--comparative new crops
charged with tremendous possibilitie
amounted to over n round million
Even hOney-y0u didn't know W
raised honey (the bee kind) in thi
country, did you?-Manitoba produce
105. 1000 pounds I'm 1915, and there ism
bee In the province that doesn
swear he's a better honey-sorter tina
anything in California or Washington
That's where the money is; in tn
jeans of our honest friend the far.nel
who was too slow To get into the cite
when the rest of us saw shortcuts [
wealth who hadn't imagination enoug
TO think n man can make money with
out earning 1T. and who was too dul
to know that hard work Is fO0liSf
Well, he has the laugh now Likewis
the ey.-AdvertiSement.
II man has no show at home IL
up 10 him to patroniZe circus.