The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-12-24

FLORIDA has 34S growing days q
year.
Florida produces more than rs diff.
fsrent varieties Of farm products.
Florida ships $4,000 car loads OF
fruit and vegetables q 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
in annually more than $25,OoO,000
Florida produces yearly 5000, 200
quarts of strawberries.
Florida annually produces $4,000.
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. It's 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-
900 oranges in year.
From Florida are shipped 100000
icrates of celery annually.
In single season 1900 cars of
watermelons and 255,000 crates Of
cantaloupes have been shipped from
Florida.
The Florida velvet-bean crop ap-
proximates 100000 bushels 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.
Florida's sea coast is 1900 miles
long
Florida's north-tosouth length is
$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
Vest 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
other states combined.
Florida produces 100000 to 49,
100000 bushels of corn year, and
of a 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 is only
33d in population.
Florida has an average Of 81 inches
of rainfall annually.
Florida has some of the largest
and most beautiful springs In the
world. Several of them flow at the
rate of 100000 to 300, 900 gallons per
minute-large enough to float steam
boats. Silver Springs, near Ocala,
flows 375,000 gallons minute. It is
believed to be the largest spring on
earth.
Florida's banking deposits increas-
ed 2O5 per cent. within the last FIVE
years. It has 201 banking institu-
lions under state control and 81 ma
tional banks.
There are 1850 horticultural nurser-
les in Florida, with homegrown
trees.
Shad, pompano, Spanish mackerel,
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