The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-02-10

Aut3Ao BAANOAs'
Leaving out rivers. lakes. towns.
cities, highways. railroads, etc.. Flor
ida has 2o,o00,000 acres Of land avail
able for cultivation less than
3,00s. zoe acres under the pillow.
Look at a map Of the world, and
you will find Florida Is more favor
ably located, relative to facility Of
access to water and world trsnac,
than any other American state.
Florida has many varieties Of
grasses and other forage crops.
Florida mines 100000 worth Of
phosphate per annum, or 80 per cent.
Of the total output Of the United
States.
There are nineteen navigable riv-
ers in Florida.
It is estimated that On acre Of
Florida water can be made to supply
as much food as an acre Of land.
Florida farm land increases in val
ue 165 per cent each decade. The
state contains 100000 acres,
Florida is not all sand. 1t has
more than 100000 acres of land
with firm red-clay subsoil.
Two years of upbuilding with leg
umes will make the most ordinary
Florida sand productive.
Jackson county shipped 7b 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 q greater number Of nectar.
bearing plants and flowers.
Florida has two kinds OF trees not
found elsewhere in the world-so far
as known to botanists. They are oi
the confer or pine family.
Florida ships $4,000 car loads Of
fruit and vegetables year, or more
than four solid train loads every day
In the year.
Florida has - Of the 6S federal res.
,yations for the protection and pres
ervation of bird life.
The banner orange tree of Florida
is so feet high and has produced TO-.
900 oranges In year.
More than 800 silos have been built
in Florida in recent years, this work
having been scarcely started.
The value of Florida's peanut crop
is estimated at $3,0o0,O00.
Hastings, In st. Johns county,
marketed more than 100000 worth
of white potatoes in 1917.
Florida reported 50,016 farms In
1910. The state could contain ten
times az many.
Florida has the largest pecan grove
In the world-72, 900 trees, covering
400 acres, near Tallahassee.
Florida possesses 100000 pecaa
trees
No one need fear coming to Flori-
da because Of alllgators, They are
now as much of curiosities to Florid-
ians as they have been to tourists,
Floridas farm, grove, poultry, ani
dairy products in 1917 aggregated
$4,000, 900 IN value. The value
would be s1,OoO,oOO.Oo oif all avail
able land were developed and cult
waited.
There are only 20 states in the IN.
ion with more daily newspapers than
Florida has, and our state is only
33d in population.
Florida has some of the largest
and most beautiful springs in the
world Several OF them flow at the
rate vt 100000 to 100000 gallons per
minuie--lsrge enough to float steam
boats. Silver Springs, near ocala.
flows $4,000 gallons minute. 1t is
believed to be the largest spring on
earth.
Florida produces 12.OO0Oee to u.s.
100000 bushels Of corn Q year. and
Of a quality as nne a. that Of any
en- earth.
Florida has an average Of 81 iaches
Of rainfall annually.
There are 1sO horticultural nurser-
trees.
Florida ranks first among all states
in the Union In the production OF
turpentine
There are two million acres Of
land In the Everglades a. rich ss any