The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-02-07
Facts About F1Oridd

There are some $50 varieties OF nan
IN y..cr'da waters.
Florida farm lG-> Increases l66 per
cent in value each decade. S.,s has
81, 7OO,O 900 acres.
Florida has more than 100000
acres of land with firm red clay
subsoil. It Is not all sand.
There are 100000 acres of land in
the Everglades as rich as any In the
world.
Dogs kill 5000 sheep per annum In
Florida, or three times as many as
die Of disease. Swat the dog.
There are $4,000 dogs in Florida.
and probably several times as many
cats. Are they worth what they cost!
Jackson county shipped seventy-fVe
cars of "A" grade corn to Kansas
City last year.
Fossils remains brought to light by
mining operations, show that Florida
was once the home Of the mastodor
elephant, camel, -toOthed tiger,
and other giant forms Of life.
Honey is produced in practically
every Florida county. No state has a
greater number Of nectar bearing
plants and flowers.
Florida has two kinds of trees not
found elsewhere in the world as far
as known to botanists. They are Of
the confer or pine family.
More than 300 silos have been built
in Florida in recent years, the ork
having just fairly started.
Floridas peanut crop is estimated
at 100000.
Hastings marketed more than S.
900, 900 worth of potatoes in 1917.
Florida has many varieties Of grass
| es anu lOId6c Siopo.
The dasheen, tuber having food
value in excess of the potato, and
making large yields, is Florida crop
Florida is not all fiat, there beine
many hills and valleys, as pretty and
fertile as any in the Union.
Florida produces more long staplt
cotton-the kind used to make threat
and lace material-than any othe!
state. 1t was worth in 1918 more
than seventy-flve cents pound.
!, Florida produces winter grown to
matoes and ships 5000 carloads; more
in total than all the other states com
bined.
Florida produces from twelve t,
fifteen million bushels Of corn pc
I annum, of as fine quality as any Of
earth.
There are only twenty states In tn
Union with more daily newspaper
than Florida, and our state Is thirty
third in population.
I Florida has an average of fifty-sev
or inches of rainfall annually.
| Florida has some of the largest AM
most beautiful springs in the world
I Several of them flow at the rate o
two to three hundred thousand gal
Ions per minute, large enough to floa
steamboats,. Silver Springs, nea
Ocala. flows $4,000 minute. 1t |
believed to be the largest on earth.
4 Tourists spend $3O,0OO,OO0 in tn
state every year.
! There is $3OO,OO0,OOO invested Il
hotels in Florida. The Royal Poin
! ciani is the largest frame hote
! building in the world.
Florida has $500 miles of railroad
operated by thirty-one different com
| panies.
II Florida has the lowest death rat
| CT any state in the Union.
The population Of Florida has in
- creased 80 per cent in five years.
The bank deposits increased 203 pc
= cent in the last five years. There ar
! now 2O1 banking institutions unde
Z state control and 54 National banks
7 One Florida city sent out to th
i smokers of the country in 1916 owe
! 2S7 100000 cigars
Z The Royal Palm State Park,
I miles from Miami, is the only one |
i the Union owned and promoted by Ii
! Federation of Woman's clubs; it cor
I tains wonderful collection of trees
/ Florida has 10 of the 6S FEEDER,
! reservations for the protection an
! preservation Of bird life.
I Florida has a state compulsor
I school law.
! Florida has many fine institutor
I for higher education.
I Key West is nearly 800 miles nea
I Ell the Panama Canal than any otht
! American port.
! The tarpon-the worlds most note
Z game fsh-abounds in the Sc;
Z around Florida, catching 1t is one
x the most exeitinp snorto Lrorrn