The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-02-19
william Boyce Thompson ana 0en
ators Wadsworth and Calder.
FACTS ABOUT FLORIDA

Florida has more than lo'oVo'oVo
acres OF land with firm req Gay
subsoil. 1t is not all sand.
There are 100000 acres Of land IN
the Everglades as rich as any In 'ns
world.
Dogs kill 5000 sheep per annum IL
Florida or three times as many a.
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-nVs
cars Of "A" grade corn to Kansas
City last year
Fossils remains brought to iignt oy
mining operations show that Florida
was once the home of the mastodoi
elephant, camel, saber-toothed elser
and other giant forms of life.
Honey is produced in practically
every Florida county. No state has
greater number Of nectar bearing
plants and flowers.
| Florida has two kinds of trees nor
found elsewhere in the world as raf
rs known to botanists. They are OF
the confer or pine family.
More than 800 silos have been built
| in Florida in recent years, the ork
having just fairly started.
Florida's peanut crop is estimated
at 100000.
Hastings marketed more than So
900 900 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 Florida crop
Florida is not all fiat, 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-than any other
state. 1t was worth in 1918 more
than seventy-fve cents pound
! Florida produces winter grown TO-
Hlatoes and ships 5000 carloads; more
in total than all the other states cont
bined.
! Florida produces from twelve to
fifteen million bushels Of corn pc:
lannum, 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 Is thirty,
third in population.
] Florida has an average Of fifty-sev.
On inches OF rainfall annually.
Florida has some Of the largest ant
most beautiful springs in the world
Several of them flow at the rate Of
two to three hundred thousand gal.
Ions per minute, large enough to floa,
steamboats,. Silver Springs, neal
Ocala. flows $4,000 minute. It Il
believed to be the largest on earth.
There is $500, 100000 invested II
hotels in Florida. The Royal Poin
ciani is the largest frame hote
building in the world.
The population Of Florida has in
creased 30 per cent in five years.
The bank deposits increased 203 pc
cent in the last five years. There ar,
now POI banking institutions unde
state control and "a National banks
One Florida city sent out to TIL
smokers of the country in 1915 owe
2S7,OO0, 900 cigars.
The Royal Palm State Park, 4
} miles from Miami, is the only one Il
the Union owned and promoted BY tn
Federation Of Woman's clubs; 1t con
tains a wonderful collection of trees
Florida has Is Of the So Fedora
reservations for the protection an
preservation of bird life.
= The tarpon-the worlds most note
game fsh-abounds in the sea
3 around Florida. catching II Is one
most exciting sports known
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