The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-01-09
Facts about Florida

Florida has more than 10000, 00t
acres OF land with a firm red clay
subsoil. 1t is not all sand.
There are 100000 acres Of land II
the Everglades as rich as any in tn
world.
Dogs kill 5000 sheep per annum II
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-flv'
cars of "A" grade corn to Kansas
City last year.
Fossils remains brought to light BY
mining operations, show that Florid;
was once the home of the mastodoI.
elephant, camel, saber-toothed tiger
and other giant forms of life.
Honey is produced in practically
every Florida county. No state has {
greater number OF nectar bearine
plants and flowers.
Florida has two kinds of trees moi
found elsewhere in the world as fal
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.
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, a tuber having food
value in excess of the potato, and
making large yields, is Florida crop
Florida is not all fiat, there beins
many hills and valleys, as pretty ami
fertile as any in the Union.
Florida produces more long staplc
cotton-the kind used to make thread
and lace material-than any othe,
state. 1t was worth in 1918 more
than seventy-flve cents pound.
Florida produces winter grown to.
natoes and ships 5000 carloads; more
in total than all the other states com.
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 tho
Union with more daily newspaper
than Florida, and our state is thirty
third in population.
Florida has an average Of flfty-sev.
en- 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
two to three hundred thousand gal
Ions per minute, large enough to floa,
steamboats,. Silver Springs, near
Ocala, flows $4,000 a minute. It is
believed to be the largest on earth.
Tourists spend 100000 in the
state every year.
There is $3Oo,ooO,OOO invested In
hotels in Florida. The Royal Poin-
ciani is the largest frame hotel
building in the world.
Florida has $500 miles of railroads
operated by thirty-one different COM
panies.
Florida has the lowest death rate
CT any state in the Union.
The population of Florida has in
creased 80 per cent in FIVE years.
The bank deposits increased 20s PEI
cent In the last five years. There are
now 201 banking institutions under
state control and 81 National banks
One Florida city sent out to the
smokers of the country in 1915 over
cigars.
The Royal Palm State Park. A.
niles from Miami, is the only one In
the Union owned and promoted BY the
Federation of Woman's clubs; it con.
tains a wonderful collection Of trees
Florida has Is of the 6S Federal
reservations for the protection and
preservation of bird life.
Florida has state compulsory
school law.
Florida has many fine institutions
Tor higher education.
Key West is nearly 800 miles near.
d the Panama Canal than any other
American port.
The tarpon-the worlds most noted !
game fsh-abounds in the seas
around Florida, catching it is one Of
ne most exciting sports known to
ishermen.
snad, pompano, Spanish macherel.
'heephead, trout, red fish and mullet
ire among the many fine food fishes
u Florida. Fishing is one of the great
Industries of the state.