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

400 Ho'VoV'VVV acres OF land avail
aoie for cultivation-with less than
100000 acres under the pillow.
florida's farm. grove. poultry, and
dairy products in 1917 aggregated
slla'ooo,ooo in value. The value
would be $1,ooO,OOO,Oo Off all avail.
able land were developed and cult.
waited.
Florida's average value Of farm
products per acre is $14s.
Florida has more than 200 varieties
OF forest trees-a greater number
than any other state.
Florida has 74,0OO,OOO,0O0 feet of
standing timber-enough to build
homes for 20 million people.
Florida mines $1o,OOO,OOo worth Of
phosphate per annum, or so per cent.
OF the total output Of the United
Estates.
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 a 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 60
fishing and boating in Florida waters
Tor 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.
There are nineteen navigable riv-
ers in Florida.
It 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.
Florida farm land increases In val
ue 165 per cent. each decade. The
state contains 100000 acres.
Florida is not all sand. 1t has
more than 100000 acres OF land
with a firm red-clay subson.
Two years Of upbuilding with leg
umes will make the most ordinary
Florida sand productive.
Jackson county shipped 10 cars Of
tiA.grade corn to Kansas City, Mo-, last
year.
Fossil remain brought to light by
mining operations show Florida once
! was the home OF the mastodon, the
I elephant, the camel, the saber-toothed
, Itiber, and other giant forms OF life
Honey Is produced in practically
/; every Florida county. No state pro
duces a greater number Of nectar
bearing plants and flowers.
I Florida has two kinds OF trees no
found elsewhere in the world-se Ia
as known to botanists. They are q
! the confer or pine family.
! More than 300 silos have been bull
| IN Florida in recent years, this Worl
IIbaving been scarcely started.
4 The value Of Florida's peanut crol
is estimated at 100000.
Hastings, in st. Johns county
: marketed more than s5O00,oOO wort
Z of white potatoes in 1917.
Florida reported 5O,O16 farms
! 1910. The state could contain te