The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-12-18

LT66S.
Florida has 34s growing days a
year.
Florida produces more than % 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 Gay
in the year.
Florida's fish oysters. shrimp, crabs
and various kinds Of sea food bring
lin annually more than s25,OOO,OOO
Florida produces yearly 6,OOo,oOo
Quarts of strawberries.
Florida annually produces l5,Ooo,-
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. 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 so feet high and has produced TO-,
a 900 oranges in year.
Q From Florida are shipped 100000
t crates Of celery annually.
In single season $500 cars Of
watermelons and 255,00O crates 81
;. cantaloupes have been shipped from
y Florida.
The Florida velvet-bean crop ap
/ proximates 100000 bushels year.
. Florida's area Is equal to the com
! bined areas of Main, New Hampshire
Vermont, Massachusetts,, Rhode Is
u land, and Connecticut. The latte
+ states contain 100000 people. Flor
y ida has only 100000 inhabitants
. and more In the winters.
Florida's sea coast is 1900 mile
Ia long
le Florida's north-to-south length
. $50 miles; its east-to west width
= 410 miles. 1t is about the same di'
y lance from Pensacola to Key Yves
- (by raiD as it is from Jacksonvill
to New York. Members of the stat
re legislature from Monroe county Ike
~ West) travel about 700 miles to reac
"a the state capital.
In Florida has 10000 lakes. LAX
Okeechobee, the second largest LAX
within the union, has an area
~ nearly 1000 square miles-more tina
= half as large as the state Of Rhot
Island.
:. Florida produces winter.grown t
= matoes, and ships 5000 car loads
them--a total larger than that of q
other states combined.
Florida produces 100000 to Il
100000 bushels of corn a year, al
a. of quality as fine as that of al
NC on earth.
as There are only 20 states in the u
nd ion with more daily newspapers tn,
Florida has, and our state is on
: S3d in population.
.ry Florida has an average Of 81 inch
of rainfall annually,
OF Florida has some of the large
ast and most beautiful springs in I
world. Several of them flow at I
by rate of 100000 to 100000 gallons \
ice minute-large enough to float stea
he boats, Silver Springs. near oca
led flows $4,000 gallons a minute. II
lie. believed to be the largest spring
lily earth.
:. Florida's banking deposits incre
ed 2O5 per cent within the last f
years. 1t has 201 banking insti
uo' lions under state control and 81
idf tional banks.
There are 100 horticultural nurs
les in Florida, with home.gro
uilt trees. ....
ork g.,
Shad, pompano, Spanish macke-
sheephead, trout. reddish, and mut
are among the many fine food 6sl
of Florida. Fishing is one of
nty. great industries of the state.
Florida reported 5O,o16 farms
1910. The state could contain
Of times as many.
Florida ranks first among all sta
line In TIA IIninr, In III --.aa