The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-02-21


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 100000 acres OF land avail.
able for cultivation-with less than
100000 acres under the pillow.
Look at q map Of the world, and
you will find Florida is more favor.
ably located, relative to facility II
access to water and world trafnc,
than any other American state.
Florida has many varieties Of
grasses and other forage crops.
Florida mines $4,000, 900 worth Of
phosphate per annum, or 80 per cent.
Of the total output Of the United
States.
Hastings, in st. Johns county
marketed more than $5,000,0 900 worth
of white potatoes in 1917.
No one need fear coming to Flort
da because Of alligators. They are
now as much. Of curiosities to Norid.
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 oil
land in the Everglades as rich as any
In the world.
Florida annually produces $4,000,
900 gallons of milk. This state IL
better adapted to dairying than is any
other state in the union.
From Florida are shipped 100000
crates of celery annually.
In a single season $500 cars nj
watermelons and 255,000 crates >,
cantaloupes have been shipped from
Florida.
The Florida velvet-bean crop ap
-roximates 100000 bushels year.
Florida's sea coast is 1000 mile,
les in Florida, with homegrown
long
There are nineteen navigable riv
ers in Florida.
1t is estimated that On acre o
Florida water can be made to suppl.
as much food as an acre Of land.
Florida farm land increases In val
We 1855 per cent. each decade. TIL
state contains $4,000, 900 acres,
Florida is not all sand. It ha
more than 100000 acres Of Ian,
with firm red.clay subsoil.
Two years Of upbuilding with lea
umes will make the most ordinar.
Florida sand productive.
Jackson county shipped rs cars 0
A-grade corn to Kansas City, Mo-, las
year.
Fossil remain brought to light b.
/ mining operations show Florida ono
was the home Of the mastodon, tn
elephant, the camel. the saber-toothe
tiber, and other giant forms of life
Honey is produced In practicall
every Florida county. No state Pre-
duces q greater NUMBER OF nectai
bearing plants and flowers.
Florida has two kinds OF trees no
found elsewhere in the world-so fa
as known to botanists. They are
the confer or pine family.
Florida has 10 Of the So federal res
ryations for the protection and pres
ervation of bird life.
The banner orange tree Of Florid
is so feet high and has produced 10
600 oranges in year.
More than SEQ silos have been bull
In Florida in recent years, this worl
having been scarcely started.
rivers and lakes, and also availsbl
underground, besides the heavies
annual rainfall, than any other stat
In the union.
orchids-the rare and expensiv
beauties OF the northern greenhouse
grow will In the forests of Flor
da.
Florida's fish oysters, shrimp, crab
and various kinds OF sea food brin
in annually more than s25,0oO,O0O.
Florida produces yearly 100000
quarts of strawberries.
Florida produces more long-stapl
cotton-the kind use dto make threa
and lace material-than does an