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

/ Florida possesses 100000 pecan
trees.
Florida has S4S growing days a
year.
Florida produces more than 70 dill
|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
lin annually more than $25,000,0OO.
Florida produces yearly 100000
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
leggs annually and no state can pro-
duce better poultry. Its abundance
|of wild-bird life is evidence Of Its
adaptability to domestic fowls.
Florida produces 100000 pounds
Iof butter-a mere fraction Of its ca
lpacity to produce this commodity. 1t
offers excellent opportunities in the
dairy industry.
Florida ships approximately TO-
100000 boxes Of oranges and grape
fruit annually.
i The banner orange tree of Florida
is go feet high and has produced TO-
600 oranges in a year.
From Florida are shipped 100000
!crates of celery annually.
In a single season $500 cars of
watermelons and 255,000 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.
bined areas of Main, New Hampshire,
Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Is
land, and Connecticut. The latter
states contain 100000 people. Flor
ida has only 100000 inhabitants,
and more in the winters.
Floridas sea coast is 1900 miles
long
Florida's north-to-south length is
$50 miles; its east-to west width Is
41O miles. 1t is about the same dis.
lance from Pensacola to Key West
(by rail- as 1t is from Jacksonville
Ito 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 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
lother states combined.
| Florida produces 100000 to 15,.
100000 bushels of corn a year, and
of quality as fine as that Of any
on earth. '
| There are only 20 states in the I'm.
ion with more daily newspapers than
Florida has, and our state is only
1880 in population.
l Florida has an average Of 81 inches
of rainfall annually.
i Florida has some of the largest
and most beautiful springs in the
world. Several of them flow at the
rate of 100000 to 100000 gallons DER
minute-large enough to float steam,
boats. Silver Springs, near Ocala
flows $4,000 gallons a minute. II is
believed to be the largest spring on
earth.
| Florida's banking deposits increas
ed 2O5 per cent. within the last five
years. 1t has POI banking institn
tons under state control and 54 ma
tional banks.
There are 160 horticultural nurser
les in Florida, with HOMEGROWN
trees.
Shad, pompano, Spanish mackerel
sheephead. trout, reddish, and mullet
are among the many fine food fishe;
OF Florida. Fishing is one of the
great industries of the state.
Florida reported 5O,O1s farms in
1910. The state could contain ter
times as many.
Florida rants g..