The Ordway new era., 1916-07-28
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 (Albertn) printers have
| a house organ, called "'rhe Magnet
and in its columns II 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, how
| ever, that of letting the readers of the
paper know of the great progress that
is being made in agriculture in West
| crn Cnnndu, 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
Manitoba saskatchewan or Alberta.
| and they will he Interested in feeling
| that their friends are enjoying
portion of the wealth that has come
to Western Canada farmers as a re-
suit of careful tiling of a 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
it at II 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 342,94S,OOO
| bushels of wheat. If we take for an
average 81 cents Il bushel in Manitoba,
81 cents in Saskatchewan. and 20 cents
| in Alberta the seasons wheat crop was
worth $3.50 500. 900. Add to this an
oat crop of 334, $4,000 bushels,
worth S9j, ,457 900; n barley crop of 3d.
Dol, 1900 bushels. worth S1j,S71 900, and
flax crop of 1O,559,OOO bushels worth
| S1J,S43, 900 and you find that on these
four staples alone the farmers of West
ern Canada produced Il wealth of
$4O7, 100000.
Please note that this wealth is in
money. 1t is not in real estate at in
hated values. industrial stocks that are
half water and the rest air, fictitious
SOOdwillS or unSaleablc merchandise.
1t 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 1913 was valued
at over eleven million dollars. The po-
tatO crop of the three provinces was
worth five millions and Il half. Corn
and comparatively new crops,
charged with tremendous possibilities
amounted to over Il round million.
Even honey you didn't know we
raised honey (the bee kinD in this
country, did you? Manitoba produced
1O5 900 pounds in 1913, and there isn't
a bee in the province that doesn't
swear he's IL better honey-sorter than
anything in California or Washington.
That's where the money is; in the