The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-01-10

ferent varieties of farm products.
Florida ships $4,000 car loads OF
fruit and vegetables a year, or more
than four solid train loads every day
In the year.
Florida's fish oysters, shrimp, crabs
and various kinds Of sea food bring
in annually more than s25,000.000.
Florlda's area is equal to the com.
biDed areas Of Main, New Hampshire,
Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Is.
land, and Connecticut The latter
states contain 100000 people. Flor.
ida has only 100000 inhabitants,
and more in the winters.
The banner orange tree Of Florida
is 60 feet high and has produced TO-.
600 oranges in a year.
Florida produces yearly 5000, 900
quarts Of Strawberries.
Florida's banking deposits increas-
ed 205 per cent. within the last I'VE
years. 1t has POI banking institu-
lions under state control and "a ma
tional banks.
Florida has 34S growing days a
year.
Florida produces 100000 pounds
of butter-a mere fraction of its ca.
pacity to produce this commodity. It
offers excellent opportunities in the
dairy industry.
There are only 20 states In the un.
ion with more daily newspapers than
Florida has, and our state is only
33d in population.
Florida has an average Of 81 inches
of rainfall annually.
Florida has some of the largest
and most beautiful springs in the
world. Several of them flow at the
rate Of 100000 to 100000 gallons per
minute-large enough to float steam.
boats. Silver Springs, near Ocala,
flows $4,000 gallons a minute. It Is
believed to be the largest spring on
earth.
There are 100 horticultural nurser.
les in Florida, with homegrown
trees.
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 as any
in the world.
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 q year. and
of a quality as fine as that Of any
on earth.
Florida annually produces 10000.
900 gallons of milk. This state is
better adapted to dairying than is any
other state in the union.
Florida's north.to-south length IL
$50 miles; its east-to west width Is
40 miles. It is about the same dis
lance from Pensacola to Key West
(by rail- as 1t ia 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 800, 900
crates of celery annually.
In a single season $500 cars of
watermelons and 255,00O crates 81
cantaloupes have been shipped from
Florida.
The Florida velvet-bean crop ap'
'roximates 100000 bushels year.
Florida's sea coast Ia 1900 miles
long
Florida has 10 of the sS federal res.
rvations for the protection and pres
ervation Of bird life.
Florida has 10000 lakes. Lake
Okeechobee, the second largest lake
within the union, has an area Of
nearly 1000 square miles-more thar
half as large as the state Of Rhode
Island.
Florida produces 100000 dozer
eggs annually and no state can pro
duce better poultry. It's abundance
Of wild-bird life is evidence Of III
adaptability to domestic fowls.
ADLER-I-KA AGAINI