The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-01-10
Facts about Florida

There are some $50 varieties Of fab
III vida waters.
Florida farm i...,' '~creases 165 per
cent in value each decade. 81. hes
S7,7O0,O 900 acres.
Florida has more than 10000, 900
acres Of land with a firm red clay
subsoil. 1t is not all sand.
There are 1000, 900 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-flve
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 800 silos have been built
in Florida lin recent years, the ork
having just fairly started.
Florida's peanut crop is estimated
at 100000.
Hastings marketed more than S.
100000 worth of potatoes in 1917.
Florida has many varieties of grass
es and forage crops.
The dasheen, tuber having food
value in excess of the potato, and
making large yields, is a Florida crop.
Florida is not all fat, there being
many hills and valleys, as pretty and
fertile as any in the Union.
Florida produces more long staple
,cotton-the kind used to make thread
and lace material-thap any othe.
state. 1t was worth in 1918 more
than seventy five cents a pound.
Florida produces winter grown to-
natoes and ships 5000 carloads; more
in total than all the other states conf
bined.
Florida produces from twelve to
fifteen million bushels Of corn pc!
annum, Of as fine quality as any on
earth.
There are only twenty states In the
Union with more daily newspapers
than Florida, and our state lie thirty
third in population.
Florida has an average Of fifty-sev'
en- inches Of rainfall annually.
Florida has some Of the largest ant
most beautiful springs In the world
Several Of them dow at the rate o.
two to three hundred thousand gal;
Ions per minute. large enough to hoa
steamboats,. Silver Springs, neal
ocala, flows $4,000 a minute. It II
believed to be the largest on earth:
Tourists spend s3o,ooo,ooo in tn
state every year.
There is s3oo,ooo.ooo invested II
hotels in Florida. The Royal Poin
ciani is the largest frame hote
trilding in the world.
Florida has $500 miles Of railroads
operated by thirty-one different com
panies.
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 201 banking institutions unde
state control and 81 National banks
One Florida city sent out to tn
smokers of the country in 1916 owe
I2S7, O0O, 900 cigars.
The Royal Palm State Park, 4
niles from Miami, is the only one 4
the Union owned and promoted by tn
Federation of Woman's clubs; 1t con
tains wonderful collection OF trees
/ Florida has 10 Of the 6S Fedora
reservations for the protection an
preservation of bird life.
Florida has a state compulsor
school law.
Florida has many fine institution
for higher education.
/ Key West is nearly 800 miles neal
el the Panama Canal than any othe
) American port.
The tarpon-the worlds most note
game fish-abounds in !. the sea
around Florida, catching II is one i
} the most exciting sports known