The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-02-07

covered with thick ice, you can 90
fishing and boating in Florida waters
or pick strawberries and flowers In
Florida gardens.
, Leaving out rivers, lakes, towns,
cities, highways, railroads, ETC., Flor.
ida has 10000, 900 acres of land avail.
able for cultivation-with less tnan
1000, 900 acres under the plow.
Look at . map Of the world, and
Iyou will find Florida Is more favor
ably located, relative to facility OF
access to water and world traffic,
than any other American state.
Florida has many varieties Of
grasses and other forage crops.
Florida mines $10,000,000 worth Of
phosphate per annum, or 80 per cent.
Of the total output Of the United
States.
There are nineteen navigable riv.
J Iers in Florida.
It is estimated that On acre Of
! Florida water can be made to supply
as much food as an acre Of land.
J Florida farm land increases In val.
ue 1855 per cent. each decade. The
state contains 100000 acres,
Florida is not all sand. It has
more than 100000 acres of land
with a firm red-clay subsol.
Two years of upbuilding with leg
! umes will make the most ordinary
FLORIDA sand productive.
jackson county shipped rs cars Of
:. IA.grade corn to Kansas City, Mo-, last
year.
Fossil remain brought to light by
mining operations show Florida once
4 was the home of the mastodon, the
elephant, the camel, the saber-toothed
|tiber, and other giant forms Of life.
D Honey is produced In practically
every Florida county. No state pro-
duces . 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 If
1 the confer or pine family.
Florida ships $4,000 car loads Of
fruit and vegetables q year, or more
J than four solid train loads every day
! In the year.
> Florida has 13 of the 6S 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 800 silos have been built
in Florida In recent years, this work
having been scarcely started.
The value Of Florida's peanut crop
|. is estimated at 100000.
Hastings, in st. Johns county
marketed more than 100000 worth
of white potatoes in 1917.
Florida reported 60,016 farms In
1910. The state could contain ten
times as many.
- Florida, has the largest pecan grove
in the world-72,000 trees, covering
1900 acres, near Tallahassee.
Florida possesses 100000 pecag
trees.
No one need fear coming to Flori
- da because Of alligators. They are
5. now as much of curiosities to Florid
7 ians as they have been to tourists.
I Floridas farm. grove, poultry, an,
! dairy products in 1917 aggregated
I s113,000,O00 In value. The valu
I would be $1,000 100000 Off all avail
xable land were developed and cult
VI waited.
! There are only 20 states in the ur
I ion with more daily newspapers tina
I Florida has, and our state is onl
I 33d in population.
- Florida has some of the hrges
and most beautiful springs In tn
world. Several OF them flow at tn
rate of 100000 to 100000 gallons pc
minute-large enough to float steam
boats. Silver Springs, near Ocala
flows $4,000 gallons a minute It |
believed to be the largest spring o.
earth.
Florida produces 100000 to Is
100000 bushels of corn a year, an
of quality as fine as that of an
on earth.
Florida has an average Of 81 niche
of rainfall annually.
There are 100 horticultural nurseI
trees.
Florida ranks first among all state
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