Tombstone epitaph., 1916-08-06
WHO'S GOT
 THE MONEY
In Four Staples Alone the Farm. CTS Of Western Canada Pro- duced 408 Million DoI-
 lars in 1915.

The Calgary (Alberta) printers have a house organ. called The Magnet, and in it's columns 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 West ern Canada, will he 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 he interested in feeling that their friends are enjoying n 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. IL can stamp One Dollar" on a slip of white paper. and we accept it at dollars worth. but neither the paper nor the printing are worth a copper. What gives it value is the promise of the people of CanaIa 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 CTS of Alberta. Saskatchewan and Manitoba fast year raised 342 94S,ooO bushels of wheat. If We take for an average S. cents buShel in Manitoba, Sl cents in Saskatchewan. and @ cents In Alberta the seasons wheat crop was worth s2S0, 629 900. Add to this an oat crop of 33I. .S4O.OOO bushels, worth s9j, 900; a barley crop of 3J.- 254, 200 bushels. worth S1J,SI1 ,O00. and flax crop of lO,:EJ9. 900 bushels worth S15,s43,Oo0, and you find that on these four staples alone the farmers of West crn Canada produced wealth Of S401, ,SOO.OOO.
 Please note that this wealth is in money. It is not in real estate at in flatcd values, industrial stocks that are half water and the rest air. fictitious gasdwills or unsaleable merchandise. IL 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-comparative new crops, charged with tremendous possibilities amounted to over q round million. Even honey you didn't know we raised honey (the bee kind) in this country, did you? Manitoba produced 10J.OO0 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