The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-12-04
WE ARE ON THE MAP.


Some of the South Florida newspapers are finding
|ault with the map which has just published
Ehe book on Florida. by the agricultural section of
he United States railroad administration because the
Htoe" of the peninsula has been clipped off, and is
bublished at side. This map is one of the best
knd most accurate published in the United
tates. and in the in which it is presented,
gives prominence to the important sections
|pf the state, it properly should
1t would SEEM however, that some way might be
ievised, whereby the map of Florida might be prop
rly presented without cutting in any way If neces-
eary to do so. the map might be wider and so fold
led as to include the entire state
d The booklet publishes material which shows many
&of the agricultural opportunities and advantages of
$Florida. In its mention of West Florida, which is
arather meagre the booklet calls attention to the pro-
&duets of this section which it gives CATTLE hogs
&sheep corn, hay, cowpeas peanuts velvet soy
1beans sugar cane, tobacco, sweet potatoes, water
melons sorghum oats, Japanese cane, pecans. Irish
4potatoes peaches, Satsuma oranges lumber and naval
4 stores- Cotton should have been included.
Using figures to show Florida's increase in agricu-
lure. we get something startling Taking the thir-
teen principal of the state. and their value
find these to be si03 in 1918, against $780,
f42 900 in 1910; and 1882 900 in 1916 Only about
five cent of the land the state was under Gull
tivaon in 1915 vast possibilities of the Gull
J tivated tracts may be. imagined.
1t is pointed out that the cattle tick formerly was
the great obstacle in the way development of the
cattle industry, but methods for its complete eradica
tons are being applied and already 1900 square miles
in Florida have been freed there are six coun
ties now doing systematic dipping and which should
be free before the end this MONTH The free terri
tory, plus the twenty-five counties that have voted
favoraby to begin systematic eradication as soon as
possible comprise 5S per cent the total land area
of the state and have eighty per cent of the popula
ton and oa to 50 per cent of the cattle. eradica
ton of the tick makes it possible to grow high cass
cattle and Florida today offers great opportunity
to pure-bred breeders to produce and sell breeding
stock
According to the bureau of crop estimates of the
United States department of agriculture Florida led
the southern states in the percentage increase in the
number OF swine in January L. 1919 as compared with
the same date in 1910 During this period the in
crease S65 per cent OF the states of the Inion
when had January 1, 1914, half million or more
hoss FLORIDA was surpassed by only one in percent
age increase in the number of swine from January
1914 TO the same date in 1919 Not only has there
been this increase in numbers but the grade and
quality nave been improved very rapidly particular
~ Is TINS true of West Florida During 1918 there
was oSo4 per cent increase of pure bred swine In
twenty-seven counties of the state
riofida i've stock is making advanced record.
te figures given out at the state fair having shown
mat the increase has beyond all records for any
other line of development
Mulat Just across the Escambia lne in Santa Rosa
county. carried Off number of blue ribbons Cor its
prize winning hogs at the state fair
The place that West Florida now occnnies ., III,
map OF Florida in the rightfu prominence given tI,s
section should be insisted upon every map of the
state which is published in the future Eseambia
IS taking the lead in commerce and agriculture
and that the record made during the past ten
Years VIII be more than doubled in the next ten.
is safe assertion.
All very well for he department of labor to felIus
how long should wear our clothes. but SOM &
the clothes bought during and just after the i
VIII not hang together very long, and what tn