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

S ~ eAS"Ao S~ss
year.
Florida produces more than rs DIFF.
ferent varieties Of farm products.
Florida ships $4,000 car loads Of
fruit and vegetables 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 $25,000,000.
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
eggs 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
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
crates of celery annually.
In a single season $500 cars Of
watermelons and 255,000 crates IT
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.
Flolidas sea coast is 1000 miles
long
Florida's north-to-south length Is
$50 miles; its east-to west width Is
410 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
, 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 O.
4 nearly 1000 square miles-more thar
0 half as large as the state Of Rhod'
Island.
Florida produces winter-grown to
u matoes, and ships 5000 car loads o
y them-a total larger than that of al
other states combined.
70 Florida produces 100000 to 1b
900, 900 bushels Of corn a year, an
j. Of quality as fine as that OF an
10 on earth.
There are only 20 states in the vi
= lion with more daily newspapers tina
Florida has, and our state is onl
33d in population.
~ Florida has an average Of 81 incht
Of rainfall annually.
Of Florida has some of the large
at and most beautiful springs In Il
world. Several of them flow at II
~ rate of 100000 to 100000 gallons p'
"a minute-large enough to float stear
,o boats. Silver Springs, near Ocal
al flows 375,0OO gallons minute. It
"a believed to be the largest spring
lv earth.
20 Florida's banking deposits increa
h ed 2O5 per cent. within the last d
years. It has POI banking instit
lot tions under state control and 81 n
ar tional banks.
Of
There are 100 horticultural nurse
les in Florida, with home-gro'
ilt trees.
Tx shad, pompano, Spanish macker
sheephead, trout, reddish, and null
'op are among the many fine food fish
of Florida. Fishing is one OF
- great industries of the state.
Florida ranks first among all stat
in the Union in the production