Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-07-26
WHO'S GOT
THE MONEY
IN -Four Staples Alone the Farm
ers of Western Canada Pro-
duced 4O8 Million Dol
lars in 1915.

The Calgary (Alberta) printers have
Il house organ, called '.rlM Magnet"
and in its columns Il few weeks ago
appeared an article entitled who's Got
the Money!? 1t was clcverly 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 i'm agriculture in West
ern Canada, will be served by copying
a portion OF the article. Many of the
readers of this paper doubtless have
friends in II of the three provinces
Manitoba, saskatchewan or Alberta,
and they will be Interested in feeling
that their friends are enjoying II
portion of the wealth that fMs come
to Western Canada farmers rs IL re-
suit of careful tilling OF "a soil pr0ek-
gal in everything that goes 10 make
good grain, cattle, horses, hogs and
sheep.
Reproducing from the article:
w NONCl AtHlCil OOCS tVL klhONtttC
money. 1t can stamp Zone Dollar ~
IL slip of white paper. and we accept
it at Il dollars worth, but neither the
paper nor the printing ore worth u
copper. What gives it value is the
promise of the people of CANADA which
stands behind the printed ship, and eur
faith in that promise.
W" l> ,a, O~r, .r1~rS, r~A Az,
money?
Lei us put il into figures. Tisc fnvm-
ers of Alberta. saskatchewan and
Manitoba last year raised A 2y94S, 900
bushels of wheat. ii. we tnkc for an
average 50 cents Il bushel in Manitoba,
81 cents in saskatchewan and - cents
in Alberta the seasons wheat crop was
worth $3.50, 629,OOO. Add - this an
oat crop of 5 $4,000 bushels,
worth $95, -l57 ,O0o;a barley crop Of a.
s 1000 bushels. worth $15, 8n .O00, and
a flax crop OF 1O.;159,OOO bushels, worth
$15,s43,oo0, and you find that on these
four staples alone the farmers Of West
$4O7, 100000.
Please note that this wealth n in
money. 1t is not in real estate ut I'M
flated values, Industrial stocks that are
half water and the rest air, fictitious
goodwills or unsaleable merchandise.
1t is in hard cash, or-whixh is better
hard wheat.
These figures are only Zen the staple
grain productions. They 10 not in
clude the millions of dollars represent
cd by the live stock and dairyiTH indus
tries. Oh The additional millions inellI,l-
ed in the root fruit, mt garden crops.
The crcinlerieS of Saskatchewan, 1Or
Instance. produced more btrtterlnllk
and ice crcam last year than their
total production amounted to six years
ago. The milk, butter, and cheese pro-
duction of Alberta for 1915 was yaIued
at owe eleven million dollars. The pc
tato crop Of the three provinces was
| worth five millions and n half. Corn
and alfalfa-comparatively new crops.
charged with tremendous possibilities
amounted to Over Il round million.
Even ~lioney-you didn't know We
raised honey (the bee kind) III this
country, did you?-Manitobn produced
1866 600 pounds in 1915, and there isn't
Il bee in the province that 6Oesn'l
swear he's Il better ho~ney-soFter 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 tn
wealth who hadn't Imagination enough
to think Il man can make money with
out caInin. it, and who was TOO 3ull
to know that hard work TX foolish.
Well. he has the laugh now. Likewise.
tie Observation-Disclosures.