The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-12-19

able for cultivation-with less than
100000 acres under the plow.
J Florida's farm, grove, poultry. and
dairy products in 1917 aggregated
$113,00e,000 in value. The value
would be $1,O0O,oo0,OO OF all avail
able land were developed and cult
waited.
Florida's average value of farm
products per acre is $149.
Florida has more than 200 varieties
of forest trees-a greater number
than any other state.
Florida has $4,000, 100000 feet Of
standing timber-enough to build
homes for 20 million people.
Florida mines 100000 worth Of
phosphate per annum, or so per cent.
of the total output of the United
States.
Florida is destined to become i'm.
portant, very important, in raising
live stock. There is no long, cold
winter to test the vitality Of animals.
Feed can be grown every month.
The mild climate Of Florida offers
farming opportunities not equaled
elsewhere in the Union.
Orchids-the rare and expensive
beauties Of the northern greenhouses
grow wild in the forests of Flori.
da.
Florida has more surface water in
rivers and lakes, and also available
underground, besides the heaviest
annual rainfall, than any other state
in the. union.
No state in the union has such &C.
,cess to the oceans and the world by
water as has Florida.
No one need fear coming to Flori-
da because Of alligators. They are
now as much of curiosities to Florid.
ians as they have been to tourists.
Look at map Of the world, and
you will find Florida Is more favor
ably located, relative to facility Of
access to water and world traffic,
than any other American state.
The summer warmth of Florida
never prostrates man or animal, the
temperature seldom attaining 100 do.
grees above zero. Sultry nights are
; unknown. Trade winds constantly
blow over the state from the Gulf
of Mexico and the Atlantic ocean.
When the waters Of the North are
covered with thick ice, you can 90
fishing and boating in Florida waters
or pick strawberries and flowers In
Florida gardens.
The fig, one Of earth's best-known
fruits and oftenest mentioned In the
Bible, is right at home in Florida.
II There are nineteen navigable riv.
ers in Florida.
1t is estimated that On acre of
Florida water can be made to supply
as much food as an acre Of land.
There are more than $50 varieties
: of fish in Florida waters.
z Florida farm land increases in val
ne 165 per cent. each decade. The
state contains 100000 acres,
y Florida is not all sand. 1t has
more than 100000 acres of land
4 with a firm red-clay subsoii.
4 Two years of upbuilding with leg.
! umes will make the most ordinary
Florida sand productive.
3 Jackson county shipped rs cars of
iA-grade corn to Kansas City, Mo-, last
; lyear.
Fossil remain brought to light by
; mining operations show Florida once
was the home of the mastodon, the
elephant, the camel, the saber-toothed
ltiber, and other giant forms of life.
Honey is produced in practically
levery Florida county. No state pro-
:! duces greater number of nectar.
bearing plants and flowers.
III Florida has two kinds of trees not
found elsewhere in the world-so far
as known to botanists. They are Of
the confer or pine family.
II More than 800 silos nave been built
in Florida in recent years, this work
Having been scarcely started.
III The value of Florida's peanut crop
is estimated at 100000.
:. Hastings, in St. Johns county.
marketed more than $4,000, 900 worth
of white potatoes in 1917.
! Florida has many varieties Of
Z grasses and other forage crops.
{ The dasheen, having a food value
in excess Of that of the white potato
I and making larger yields, is a pro-
Z llific Florida crop.
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