The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-12-26

able for cultivation-with less than
z'ooo,0o0 acres under the pillow.
Florida's farm, grove, poultry, and
dairy products in 1917 aggregated
$ll3,OoO,ooo in value. The value
, would be $1,ooo,ooo,0o OF 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 $4,000, 100000 feet Of
standing timber-enough to build
homes for 20 million people.
Florida mines $1O,OOO,OOO worth Of
phosphate per annum, or 80 per cent.
! Iof 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
J 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 map of the world, and
] you will find Florida is more favor.
I ably located relative to facility Of
access to water and world traffic
than any other American state.
\ The summer warmth of Florida
n never prostrates man or animal, the
- temperature seldom attaining 100 do
50 grees above zero. Sultry nights are
unknown. Trade winds constantly
blow over the state from the Gull
of Mexico and the Atlantic ocean.
When the waters of the North are
covered with thick ice, you can 81
fishing and boating in Florida waters
or pick strawberries and flowers IL
Florida gardens.
The fig, one of earth's best-know,
, fruits and oftenest mentioned in tn
, Bible, is right at home In Florida
/ There are nineteen navigable riv
ers in Florida.
1t is estimated that On acre Q
! Florida water can be made to suppl
az much food as an acre Of land.
There are more than $50 variete
90 of fish in Florida waters.
Z Florida farm land increases In va
I ue 165 per cent. each decade. Tn
! state contains 100000 acres,
! Florida is not all sand. 1t hs
( more than 100000 acres of Ian
Z with firm red-clay subsoil.
/ Two years Of upbuilding with 10
I umes will make the most ordinal
! Florida sand productive.
( Jackson county shipped 70 cars
xiA.grade corn to Kansas City, Mo-, la
i year.
I Fossil remain brought to light
! mining operations show Florida ON
( was the home Of the mastodon, u
( elephant, the camel, the saber-tooth'
a. ltiber. and other giant forms OF LII
Honey is produced in practical
- every Florida county. No state pi
duces a greater number of meets
bearing plants and flowers.
Florida has two kinds OF trees n
found elsewhere in the world-so
as known to botanists. They are
the confer or pine family.
More than 300 silos have been ou
IN Florida in recent years, this wc
having been scarcely started.
The value Of Florida's peanut CT
is estimated at 100000.
- Hastings, in st. Johns coun
- marketed more than s5,OOO,OOO Wo
~: of white potatoes in 1917