The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-12-28

Florida has s4s growing days .
year.
Florida produces more than rs dif.
ferent varieties Of farm products.
Florida ships $4,000 car loads Of
fruit and vegetables a year, or more
than four solid train loads every day
in the year.
Florida's fish oysters, shrimp, crabs
and various kinds Of sea food bring
in annually more than $25.0o0.000.
Florida produces yearly 5000, 900
quarts of Strawberries.
Florida annually produces 10000.
900 gallons of milk. This state Is
better adapted to dairying than is any
other state In the union.
Florida produces 100000 dozen
eggs annually and no state can pro.
duce better poultry. It's abundance
OF wild-bird life is evidence Of Its
adaptability to domestic fowls.
Florida produces 100000 pounds
OF butter-a mere fraction of its ca
pacity to produce this commodity. It
offers excellent opportunities in the
dairy industry.
Florida ships approximately TO-.
100000 boxes of oranges and grape.
fruit annually.
The banner orange tree of Florida
is 60 feet high and has produced TO-.
600 oranges in year.
From Florida are shipped 100000
crates of celery annually.
In single season 1900 cars Of
watermelons and 255.O0O crates If
cantaloupes have been shipped from
Florida.
The Florida velvet-bean crop ap.
proximates 100000 bushels a year.
Florlda's area is equal to the com.
biDed areas Of Main, New Hampshire,
Vermont, Massachusetts,, Rhode Is.
laid, and Connecticut. The latter
states contain 100000 people. Flor.
ida has only 100000 inhabitants,
and more In the winters.
Florida's sea coast is 1900 miles
long
Florida's north-to.south length IL
$50 miles; its east.to west width e
410 miles. 1t is about the same dis
lance from Pensacola to Key West
(by rail- as It is from Jacksonville
i to New York. Members of the state
Legislature from Monroe county (Key
West) travel about 700 miles to reach
the state capital.
Florida has 10000 lakes. Lake
Okeechobee, the second largest lake
within the union, has an area Of
nearly 1000 square miles-more thar
half as large as the state of Rhode
Island.
Florida produces winter-grown to
matoes, and ships 5000 car loads o
them-a total larger than that Of al
lother states combined.
Florida produces 100000 to Is,
100000 bushels Of corn year, ant
Of q quality as fine as that OF an.
on earth.
There are only 20 states in the IN
ion with more daily newspapers thai
Florida has, and our state lie onl
33d in population.
, Florida has an average of 81 inche
of rainfall annually.
ii Florida has some of the largea
/ and most beautiful springs In III
world. Several of them flow ct tn
, rate of 100000 to 100000 gallons pc
. minute-large enough to float steam
boats. Silver Springs, near OcaD
, flows $4,000 gallons q minute. Il
believed to be the largest spring o
y earth.
Florida's banking deposits incrsa
: ed 205 per cent within the last nv
years. It has 201 banking institl
t tons under state control and 81 n
r tional banks.
There are 100 horticultural nurse
les in Florida, with home-grov
Il trees.
\ Shad, pompano, Spanish mackert
sheephead, trout, reddish, and null
p are among the many fine food fish
of Florida. Fishing is one Of Il
> great industries Of the state.
!" Florida ranks first among all stat
In the Union in the production
IN turpentine.
N There are two million acres
land in the Everglades as rich as al