The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-01-17

cent in value each decade. 81. has
$4,000 acres.
Florida has more than 10000, 900
acres Of land with firm red clay
subsoil. 1t is not all sand.
There are 100000 acres Of land In
the Everglades as rich as any in thu
world.
Dogs kill 5000 sheep per annum ir
Florida. or three times as many o.
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-fiv,
cars of "A" grade corn to Kansas
City last year.
Fossils remains brought to light b,
mining operations. show that Florid;
was once the home Of the mastodor
elephant, camel, saber-toothed tiger
and other giant forms Of life.
Honey is produced in PRACTICAL;
every Florida county. No state has ,
greater number of nectar bearins
plants and flowers.
Florida has two kinds of trees no
found elsewhere in the world as fal
as known to botanists. They are o
the confer or pine family.
More than 300 silos have been bull
in Florida in recent years, the orl
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 foot
value in excess Of the potato, ant
making large yields, is Florida crop
Florida is not all fiat, there being
many hills and valleys, as pretty AM
fertile as any in the Union.
Florida produces more long stapl
cotton-the kind used to make threa,
and lace material-than any othe
state. 1t was worth in 1918 NOR
than seventy-five cents pound.
Florida produces winter grown to
matoes and ships 5000 carloads; NOR
in total than all the other states con,
bined.
Florida produces from twelve t,
fifteen million bushels Of corn pc
annum, Of as fine quality as any o.
, earth.
There are only twenty states in tn
Union with more daily newspaper
than Florida, and our state is thirty
third in population.
Florida has an average Of fifty-sev
er inches of rainfall annually.
Florida has some of the largest an
most beautiful springs in the world
Several of them flow at the rate q
two to three hundred thousand gal
Ions per minute, large enough to fioa
steamboats,. Silver Springs, nea
Ocala, flows $4,000 a minute. 1t |
believed to be the largest on earth.
Tourists spend $30,000,000 in tn
state every year.
There is $30O,0OO,0OO invested 1
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.
| Florida has the lowest death rat
CT any state in the Union.
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 81 National banks
One Florida city sent out to tn
smokers of the country in 1916 owe
2S7, 900, 900 cigars.
The Royal Palm State Park,
miles from Miami, is the only one il
the Union owned and promoted by tn
Federation of Woman's clubs; it con
tains wonderful collection of trees
Florida has Is of the IS 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 near
Ell the Panama Canal than any othe
American port.
The tarpon-the worlds most note
game fish--abounds in the sea
around Florida, catching it is one D
the most exciting sports known l.
fishermen.
Shad. pompano, Spanish macherel