The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-12-18
Lakeland is the sixth CITY Of Eli

| Lakeland is the sixth city of Flor
/ ida in point of population according
to the State census recently made
public; the five larcer cities being
jacksonville, Tampa, Pensacola, Key
West and Miami IN the past five
years Lakeland has outstripped Pa
latka. st. Augustine, Orlando, Ocala,
Lake City, Gainesville, st. Peters
burg, and is therefore the largest
inland city in Florida, having a pop
ulation of 7,2S7, as again $40 in
1910, an increase Of 90 per cent in
five years. The Lakeland citizenship
is quite cosmopolitan and exceeding
ly cordial and hospitablc and visit
ors and settlers have only to offer the
slightest provOcation and cooperate
with us but just little in order to
feel thoroughly at home. Our banks
are conservative and yet thoroughly
progressive; railroad facilities are
easil ythe best in the State; we take
a pride in our churches and schools
and our climate is hcalthful and de-
lightful, the average temperature in
the warmest months being So and
4G in the coolest, with "a as the
highest and "a AS the coolest in the
history of the Weather Bureau.
There are three newspapers, two
daily and one weekly which fact
alone speaks well Tor the progress
,siveness of the people.
Lakeland awakened but recently
to the realization of her splendid
geoe raphical and Typographical posi-
, ton (having the highest elevation
of any town in South Florida) as
we'll AS to the valuable and varied
!, resources of the country by which
she Is surrounded, and as a conse-
quence is attracting some of the best
people in the country to locate with
in her borders, who ry their own en-
ergy and well-deserved success are
the living testimonials Of what has
been done, is now being done and
can he done by others having the
same energy and determination.
Farming in Florida
u,ho Iono ,,opad Cbiuamap haSn'
a thing on some of the farmers OF
America Some Of them raise cotton
because their fathers raised cotton
and some raise citrus fruits because
Their fathers left them a grove 9th
ers raise celery because their neigh
Dor made fortune off that vege
table several years ago, and Others
raise cabbage because they are IL
what is known as "a cabbage coun
try"
The successful Florida farmer &
few years hence Is going to be thu
, same kind of farmer he was in II
linois or in Indiana where he came
from. The only difference is tina
here he is going to have more va
ried crop than he used to cultivate
and he is going to have field worl
:, for himself and his hands ever!
month in the year. He will have
year round garden and in it will b.
vegetables which will carry his fam
lily from season to season as well al
leave a tidy margin for market. III
will raise cane and know where i
is going to be ground into juice ant
where the Juice is going to be boilet
into syrup and where the syrup i
goin. to be sold. He will have hi
silo, and his cattle and hogs viii
hover around that silo just as the!
do in his northern home. He vii
have hay field and hay harves
0 will only differ from his northern
: custom by coming four times as of
e ten every year. His grove of orange
: and grapefruit will take the plac
I of his apple and peach orchard up II
d the old home country.
: There is not another spot on tn
y earth where a farmer can be as In
s dependent as he can in South Flor
- ida, and especially in this section o
h Polk county. But he will have t
Is learn as many are indeed alread
: learning, not to put everything h
has into one crop, for it is possible