The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-12-13

laDIe Ior cult1vat10n-W1th less than |
100000 acres under the pillow.
Florida's farm, grove, poultry, and
dairy products in 1917 aggregated
$113,0O0,OO0 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 $149.
Florida has more than 200 varieties
of forest trees-a greater number
than any other state.
| Florida has 74,OOO,O00,00O feet of
standing timber-enough to build
homes for 20 million people.
Florida mines $1O,000,000 worth Of |
phosphate per annum, or 80 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-
Ida 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 go
| 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.
There are nineteen navigable riv.
ers IN Fl0rlua.
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.
Florida farm land increases in val
ue 165 per cent. each decade. The
state contains 100000 acres,
Florida is not all sand. It has
more than 100000 acres of land
I with firm red-clay subsoil.
Two years of upbuilding with leg.
umes will make the most ordinary
Florida sand productive.
Jackson county shipped rs cars of
A-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
elephant, the camel, the saber-toothed
tiber, and other giant forms of life.
. Honey is produced in practically
every Florida county. No state pro.
duces greater number of nectar
bearing plants and flowers.
Florida has two kinds of trees not
found elsewhefe in the world-so far
as known to botanists. They are Of |
the confer or pine family.
More than 300 silos have been built
in Florida in recent years, this work |
having been scarcely started.
The value of Floridas peanut crop
is estimated at $S,O0O,OOO
Hastings, in st. Johns county, |
marketed more than $4,000 900 worth |
of white potatoes in 1917.
Florida has many varieties Of
grasses and other forage crops.
. The dasheen, having food value
!. in excess of that of the white potato
and making larger yields, is pro-
|. lific Florida crop.
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