The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-12-22
Facts About Florida

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100000 acres.
Florida has more than 1O,OOO,0 900
acres of land with a firm red clay
Subsoil. 1t is not all sand.
There are 100000 acres of land in
the Everglades as rich as any in the
world.
Dogs kill 5000 sheep per annum in
Florida, or three times as many as
Gle OF disease. Swat the dog.
There are $4,000 dogs in Florida
and probably several times as many
cats Are they worth what they cost!
jackson county shipped seventy-five
cars OF "A" grade corn to Kansas
City last year.
FOSSILS remains brought to light by
mining operations, show that Florida
was once the home of the mastodor.
elephant, camel, saber-toothed tiger
and other giant forms of life.
Honey is produced in practically
every Florida county. No state has
greater number of nectar bearing
plants and flowers.
Florida has two kinds of trees not
found elsewhere in the world as far
as known to botanists. They are OF
the confer or pine family.
More than 800 silos have been built
in Florida in recent years, the ork
having just fairly started.
Florida's peanut crop is estimated
at 100000.
Hastings marketed more than S.
100000 worth of potatoes in 1917.
Florida has many varieties of grass
es and forage crops,
The dasheen, tuber having food
value in excess of the potato and
making large yields, is Florida crop.
Florida is not all fiat, there being
many hills and valleys, as pretty and
fertile as any in the Union.
Florida produces more long staple
cotton-the kind used to make thread
and lace material-than any other
state 1t was worth in 1918 more
than seventy-five cents a pound.
Florida produces winter grown to-
matoes and ships 5000 carloads; more
in total than all the other states conf
bined.
Florida produces from twelve to
fifteen million bushels of corn per
annum, Of as fine quality as any on
earth. ~
There are only twenty states in the
Union with more daily newspapers
than Florida, and our state is thirty
: third in population.
Florida has an average of fifty-sev-
en- inches of rainfall annually.
Florida has some of the largest ant
most beautiful springs in the world
Several of them flow at the rate of
two to three hundred thousand GAL
Ions per minute, large enough to float
steamboats,. Silver Springs, near
Ocala, flows 375,OOO minute. 1t is
believed to be the largest on earth.
Tourists spend $3O,OOO,OOO in the
| state every year,
There is $3O0,OO0,OOO invested In
hotels in Florida. The Royal Poin-
ciani is the largest frame hotel
building in the world
Florida has $500 miles of railroads
operated by thirty-one different CON-
| ranes.
Florida has the lowest death rate
Ct any state in the Union.
The population of Florida has in
| creased 80 per cent in five years.
The bank deposits increased 203 PEI
cent in the last five years. There are
row POI banking institutions under
state control and 54 National banks
One Florida city sent out to the
smokers of the country in 1916 over
psf 900 900 cigars.
The Royal Palm State Park, d
miles from Miami, is the only one in
the Union owned and promoted by the
Federation of Womans clubs; it con.
tains a wonderful collection Of trees
| Florida has 10 of the SIS Federal
reservations for the protection and
preservation of bird life
| Florida has a state compulsory
school law.
| Florida has many fine institutions
for higher education.
Key West is nearly 300 miles near,
Ell the Panama Canal than any other
American port.
The tarpon-the worlds most noted
game fsh-abounds in the seas
around Florida, catching it is one o.
the most exciting sports known tc
fishermen.
Shad pompano, Spanish macherel,
/ sheephead, trout, red fish and mullet
are among the many fine food fishes