The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 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.


n house organ. called The Magnet"
and in Its columns n 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 10 have copied tho
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 be served 10y copying
portion OF the article. Many OF tho
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 q
portion of the wealth that has come
To Western Canada farmers as n re-
suit of careful filling 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
n alp OF white paper. and we accept
II Mt n dollars worth. but neither tho
paper nor the printing are worth q
copper. What gives II value In 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 II into figures. The farm
ers OF Alberta. Saskatchewan and
Manitoba last year raised 3i2,94S.OOO
bushels of wheat. If we take for nm
average So cents n bushel I'm Manitoba,
Al cents In Saskatchewan, and 10 cents
I'm Alberta the seasons wheat crop was
worth S2S0.029.0OO. Add TO this m
ont crop of 334. $4,000 bushels.
worth 800, ,i57 900; n barley crop OF 49,
25i 100 bushels, worth SI5,S7l 900. and
flax crop of l0.550. 900 bushels worth
$40 5.Si3. 900, and you find that on these
four staples alone the farmers OF West
ern Canada produced wealth or
S407, 100000.
nblt UNIT lilN Ntuitu IN ~
money. IL IN not In real estate Mt In
fiatcd values, Industrial stocks that are
half water and the rest nir, fictitious
goOdwills or unsnlcable merchandise
IL IL I'm hard cash, or-whlch is better
hard wheat
These figures are only for the staple
grain productions. They do not In
clude the millions Of dollars represent
cd by the live stock and dnlrying indus
tries, or the additional millions includ-
ed In the root. fruit and garden crops
The crcnmerics of Saskatchewan. for
instance produced more buttcrmilk
and Ice cream last year than their
total production amounted TO six years
ago. The milk. butter. and cheese pro-
ductlon of Alberta for 1915 was valued
nj over eleven million dollars. The po-
tato crop Of the three provinces was
worth five millions and n half. Corn
and lfa--comparativcly new crops.
charged with tremendous possibilities
Amounted TO over round million.
Even honey $500 you didn't know we
raised honey (the bee klnd) I'm this
country, did your Manitoba produced
10J.00 pounds In 1915, and there isn't
bee I'm the province Tint doesn't
swear he's better honey-sorter than
anything In California or Washington.
That's where the money IL; In the
jeans of our honest friend the farmer.
who was too slow 10 get into the cities
when the rest Of us saw shortcuts TO
wealth; who hadn't imagination
enough 10 think n man can make money
without earning II, and who was too
dull 10 know that hard work In foolish.
Well. he has the laugh now. Likewise
the moncy.--Adyertlsem