The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-01-07
Facts ABOUT Florida
THE MOST WONDERFUL STATE IN THE UNION
Compiled BY the Florida State Marketing Bureau)

ferent varieties Of farm products.
Florida ships $4,000 car loads 0
fruit and vegetables a year, or NOR
than four solid train loads every da,
in the year. d'a NJ
Florida's fsh oysters. shrimp, crab
and various kinds Of sea food brin!
in annually more than $25,000,0oo. 3
Florlda's area is equal to the com
bined areas Of Main, New Hampshire
Vermont, Massachusetts,. Rhode ID
land, and Connecticut. The latte
states contain 100000 people. Flor
ida has only 100000 inhabitants
and more In. the winters. a@a!ars
The banner orange tree of Florids
is 60 feet high and has produced 10,
600 oranges in q year.
Florida produces yearly 5000, 90,
quarts of strawberries.
Florida's banking deposits increas
ed 205 per cent. within the last fivt
years It has POI banking institu
tons under state control and "a ma
tional banks.
Florida has 34s growing days .
year.
Florida produces 100000 pound:
of butter-a mere fraction Of its. ca
pacity to produce this commodity. I,
offers excellent opportunities in the
dairy industry. ..r..
There are only 20 states In the I'M
lon with more daily newspapers thar
Florida has, and our state b only
33d in population. II .n.n
Florida has an average Of 81 inches
of rainfall annually. ',1~o
Florida has some of the largest
and most beautiful springs In the
world. Several OF them low 1t the
rate Of 100000 to 100000 gallons pe,
minute Large enough To noat steam
bcats. Silver Springs. near Ocala
nows $4,000 gallons = minute. . II Il
believed to be the largest spring on
earth. U ~ aa'''a'~ % Ysl,'' "
( There are 100 horticultural nurser
les in Florida, with homegrown
trees. ffa d9e mis- ,a518.J l1t.
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 a. any
in the world. F"
Florida produces winter.grown to
matoes, and ships 5000 car loads Of
them--a total larger than that Of all
other states combined.
Florida produces 100000 to 49,.
100000 bushels Of corn year. and
Of a quality as fine as that Of any
on earth-fot al lre sv qdm =. 1Tcl
Florida annually produces $4,000.
900 gallons of milk. r This state is
better adapted to dairying than 10 any
other state IN the union. b9p ~ ~
nFlorida's north-to-south length IL
$50 miles; its castle west width IL
40 miles. II IL about the same dis.
lance from Pensacola to Key West
(by raiD as It 10 from Jacksonville
to New York. Members Of the state
legislature from Monroe county (Key
West) travel about TOO miles to reach
the state capital.
From Florida are shipped 100000
crates Of celery annually.
In single season 1900 cars Of
watermelons and ,255,o0o crates of
cantaloupes have been shipped from
The Florida velvet.bean crop ap.
'roximates 10000 bushels o year.
Florida's sea coast is 1900 miles
long
Florida has IL of the 68 federal res.
rvations for the protection and pres.
ervation Of bird life, Yt
Florida has 10000 lakes. Lake
okeechobee, the second largest lake
within the union, has an. area Of
nearly 1000 square milss-ncrs than
half an large M tina state NJ Wh0Ae