The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-02-20

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Florida gardens.
Leaving but rivers. lakes. towns,
cities, highways, railroads, ETC., Flor.
ida has 100000 acres Of land avail
able for cultivation-with less than
S,oee, 900 acres under the plcw.
Look at q map Of the world, and
you will fnd Florida Is more favor
ably located, relative to facility Of
access to water and world tramc,
than any other American state.
Florida has many varieties Of
grasses and other forage crops.
Florida mines 100000 worth Of
phosphate per annun, 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 one need fear coming to Elori-
da 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 10000.
900 gallons of milk. This state ia
better adapted to dairying than IL any
other state in the union.
From Florida are shipped 10000
crates of celery annually.
In single season $500 cars Of
watermelons and 255,00O crates u
cantaloupes have been shipped from
Florida.
The Florida velvet-bean crop ap
,roximates 100000 bushels year.
Florida's sea coast is 1000 miles
les In Florida, with homegrown
long
There are nineteen navigable riv
ers in Florida.
1t 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 1855 per cent. each decade. The
state contains 37,000,000 acres,
Florida is not all sand. It 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 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 sabertoothed
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 OF 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 IS federal res
rvations for the protection and pres
ervation Of bird life.
The banner orange tree Of Florida
is 60 feet high and has produced TO-,
900 oranges In year.
More than SEQ siios have been built
in Florida in recent years, this work
having been scarcely started.
rivers and lakes, and also available
underground, besides the heaviest
annual rainfall, than any other state
In the union.
Orchids--the rare and expensive
beauties of the northern greenhouses
grow wild In the forests Of Flori'
de-.
Florida's fish oysters, shrimp, crabs
and various kinds Of sea food bring
IN annually more than s25.00o,0OO.
Florida produces yearly 100000
quarts Of Strawberries.
Florida produces more long-staple
eotton-the kind use dto make thread
and lace material-than does any
other state. It was worth In 1917
more than 70 cents q pound.
Tbara ara more than $50 varieties