The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-02-19

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Florida gardens.
Leaving out rivers, lakes, towns,
ciues, highways, railroads, ETC.. Flor.
ida has 2O.0oo,0oo acres Of Land avail
able for cultivation-with less than
1000, 900 acres under the pillow.
Look at q map Of the world, and
you will find Florida is more favor.
ably located, relative to facility nf
access to water and world trsdac,
than any other American state.
Florida has many varieties Of
grasses and other forage crops.
Florida mines s1o,0oS, 900 worth Of
phosphate per annum, or 80 per cent
Of the total output Of the United
States.
Hastings, in st. Johns county,
marketed more than 100000 worth
Of white potatoes in 1917.
No enc need fear coming to Flort
do because Of alligators. They are
now as much of curiosities to Florid-
ians as they have been to tourists.
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.
Florida has more surface water in
Florida ranks first among all states
in the Union in the production Of
turpentine.
There are two million acres Of
land in the Everglades as rich as any
In the world.
Florida annually produces $4,000.
600 gallons of milk. This state is
better adapted to dairying than is any
other state in the union.
From Florida are shipped 100000
crates Of celery annually.
In a single season $500 cars oi
watermelons and 255,000 crates ii
cantaloupes have been shipped from
Florida.
The Florida velvet-bean crop ap
-roximates 100000 bushels a year.
Florida's sea coast is 1900 miles
les in Florida, with homegrown
long
There are nineteen navigable riv
ers in Florida.
1t is estimated that On acre o.
Florida water can be made to supply
as much food as an acre of land.
Florida farm land increases In val
ue 1855 per cent. each decade. The
state contains 37,000,000 acres,
Florida is not all sand. 1t has
more than 100000 acres Of lane
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 a greater number Of nectar
bearing plants and flowers.
Florida has two kinds or trees not
found elsewhere In the world--so far
as known to botanists. They are Of
the confer or pine family.
Florida has IL OF the s. federal res
ryations for the protection and pres
ervation OF bird life.
The banner orange tree Of Florida
Is so feet high and has produced 10,
600 oranges In o year.
More than 800 silos have been built
In Florida in recent years, this WORK
having been scarcely started,
rivers and lakes, and also available
underground. besides the heavies
annual rainfall, than any other stats
in the union.
Orchids-the rare and expensive
beauties OF the northern greenhouses
grow will In the forests OF Flori
da.
Florida's fish oysters, shrimp, crab
and various kinds of sea food brini
IN annually more than s26,000,000.
Florida produces yearly 6,000,O0'
orarts of strawberries.
Florida produces more long-stapl'
cotton-the kind use dto make threaC
and lace material-than does an!
other state. It was worth in 1871
more than rs cents a pound.
There are more than $50 vsrietie