The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-12-30

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Florida has sAs growing days 1
year.
Florida produces moro than n dif
fsrent varieties Of farm products.
Florida ships 10000 car loads Of
fruit and vegetables . year. Or nors
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 $4,000 900.
Florida produces yearly 5000. 900
quarts Of Strawberries.
Florida annually produces 10000.
600 gallons Of milk. This state ia
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. Its abundance
OF wild-bird life is evidence of It's
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-.
1000 oranges in a year.
From Florida are shipped 100000
crates Of celery annually.
In single season 1900 cars Of
watermelons and 255,O00 crates If
cantaloupes have been shipped from
Florida.
The Florida velvet-bean crop ap.
proximates 100000 bushels 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.
Flolida's sea coast is 1900 miles
long
Florida's north-to-south length ~
$50 miles; its east-to west width Is
40 miles. 1t Is about the same dis
lance from Pensacola to Key West
(by rail- as 1t is from Jacksonville
to New York. Members of the state
legislature from Monroe county key
West) travel about TOO 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 than
half as large as the state Of Rhode
Island.
Florida produces winter-grown to-
matoes, and ships 5000 car loads OF
them--a total larger than that Of all
other states combined.
Florida produces 100000 TO 49,
100000 bushels of corn a year, and
OF o quality as fine as that OF any
on earth.
There are only 20 states in the un.
ion with more daily newspapers than
Florida has, and our state ID only
$50 In population.
Florida has an average OF " inches
of rainfall annually.
Florida has some of the largest
and most beautiful springs tn the
world. Several OF them flow ut the
rate of 200 900 to 300, 900 gallons per
minute-large enough TO ioat steam
boats. Silver Springs, near Ocaia,
flows $4,000 gallons . minute. II 10
believed to be the largest spring on
earth.
Florida's banking deposits iHCrsas-
cd 2o5 per cent. within the last ave
years. It has Dol banking ihstitn-
lions under state control ana "a ma
tional banks.
There are 100 horticultural nurser.
les In Florida, with homegrown
trees.
Shad, pompano, Spanish nackerel.
sheephead, trout, reddish, and mullet
are among the many fine food fishes
Of Florida. Fishing Is one OF the
great industries of the state.
Florida ranks first among all states
| in the Union in the production OF