Williams news., 1916-08-10
WH0'S G0T
 THE MONEY
In Four Staples Alone the Farm CTS of Western Canada Pro- duced 4O8 Million DoI-
 lars in 1915.

The Calgary (Alberta) printers have a house organ, called "The Magnet" and in its columns a 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, how ever, that of letting the readers of the paper know of the great progress that Is being made in agriculture in Vest ern Canada, will be served by copying a portion of the article. Many of the readers of this paper doubtless have friends in one of the three provinces Manitoba Saskatchewan or Alberta. and they will be interested in feeling that their friends are enjoying a portion of the wealth that has come to Western Canada farmers as a 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. It can stamp "One Dollar" on a slip of white paper, and we accept 1t at a dollars worth, but neither the paper nor the printing are worth a copper. What gives 1t 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 money7
 Let us put 1t into figures. The farm CTS of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba last year raised 342,948, 900 bushels of wheat. If we take for an average s5 cents bushel in Manitoba, S1 cents in Saskatchewan, and 79 cents in Alberta the seasons wheat crop was worth $280, ,629,0O0. Add to this an oat crop of 34,S40,O00 bushels, worth $95, ,457, 900; barley crop of 35,- 254,200 bushels, worth $15.s71 900, and a flax crop of 1O,559, ,OOO bushels worth $15, ,S43, ,OO0, and you find that on these four staples alone the farmers of West ern Canada produced a wealth of $407, ,sOO,OOO.
 Please note that this wealth is in money. It is not in real estate at in- Hated values, industrial stocks that are half water and the rest air, fictitious goodwills or unsaleable 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 a half. Corn and comparatively new crops, charged with tremendous possibilities amounted to over a round million. Even honey didn't know we raised honey (the bee kind) in this country, did you? Manitoba produced 1O5, 900 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. Thatso Uhoro tho m0nov iS. fin thQ