Mexico Missouri message., 1916-07-27
WHO'S GOT
THE MONEY
In Four Staples Alone the Farm
ers of Western Canada Pro-
duCed 409 Million DOL
lars in 1915.

The Calgary (Alberta) printers have
house organ, called "The Magnet"
and in its columns 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,
however, that of letting the readers
of the. paper know of the great pro-
gress that is being made i'm agriculture
in Western Canada, will be served by
copying q 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 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. It can stamp zone Dollar" on
a slip Of white paper, and we accept
it at a dollars worth. but neither the
paper nor the printing are worth a
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
rrs of Alberta, Saskatchewan and
Manitoba last year raised 342, ,94S,000
bushels of wheat. If we take for an
average SJ cents a bushel in Manitoba,
81 cents in Saskatchewan, and 10 cents
in Alberta the seasons wheat crop was
worth S2SO,629,00O. Add to this an
oat crop of 334,S4O,OOO bushels, worth
so, ,45TO0O; barley crop Of 35,254,-
200 bushels, worth S15,S71, 900, and
flax crop of 1O,5J9,OOO bushels worth
S15,S43OO0, and you find that on these
four staples alone the farmers OF
Western Canada produced wealth of
S407 100000.
Please note that this wealth is in
money 1t is not in real estate at in
flated values, industrial stocks that are
half water and the rest air, fictitious
goodwills or unsaleabe 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 1915 was valued
/ at over eleven million dollars. The po-
! tato crop of the three provinces was
/ worth five millions and n half. Corn
and alfaIfu-comparativ new crops,
( charged with tremendous possibilities
I amounted TO over a round million.
/ Even honey you didn't know we
/ raised honey (the bee klnd) in this
country, did you? Manitoba produced
/ 100000 pounds in 1915. and there isn't
bee in the province that doesn't
swear he's a 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 with
( out earning 1t, and who was too dull
| to know that hard work is foolish.
/ Well, he has the laugh now. Likewise
the money.-Advertisem