The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-07-27
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 haye
house organ, called "The Magnet"
and in its columns few weeks ago
anneared an article entitled who's Got
,he money!" 1t was cleverly written,
and but for Its length, the writer would
have been pleased to have copied the
orticle In its entirety. The purpose for
,,hIch this article is published, how
orer. that of letting the readers OF the
noner know of the great progress that
< being made in agriculture In west
arm Canada, will be served by copying
norton 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
norton of the wealth that has come
10 Western Canada farmers as re-
sult of careful tilling of u soil prodi-
cal In everything that goes TO make
GOOD grain, cattle, horses, hogs ana
sheep.
Reproducing from the article:
The government does not produce
money. II can stamp "One Dollar ON
slip of white paper, and we accept
il at a dollars worth, but neither the
PAPER nor the printing are worth
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
money!
Let us put 1t into figures. The farm
ers of Alberta, Saskatchewan ana
Manitoba last year raised 342,94S,OOO
bushels Of wheat. If we take for an
average SO cents u bushel in Manitoba,
81 cents in Saskatchewan, and 10 cents
in Alberta the seasons wheat crop was
worth $2S0,629,000. Add to this an
oat crop of 334,S40,000 bushels,
worth S95, ,457 900; barley crop of 3D.
254200 bushels, worth $15,S7l 600, and
fax crop of 10,559000 bushels worth
s15, ,S43,0 600, and you find that on these
four staples alone the farmers of West
em Canada produced wealth OF
S407, ,S00,000.
Please note that this wealth is In
money. 1t is not in real estate at in
nated values, industrial stocks that are
half water and the rest air. fictitious
goodwills or unsaleable merchandise.
II 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 buttermllk
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-comparatively new crops,
charged with tremendous possibilities
amounted to over a round million.
Even honey - you didn't know we
raised honey (the bee kind in this
country, did you? Manitoba produced
10000 pounds in 1915, and there isn't
hee 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 man can make money
without earning 1t, and who was too
dull to know that hard work is foolish.
Well, he has the laugh now. Likewise
the mouey.-Advertise
lie has no force with men who has
No fofth q, bi,,,calf