The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-02-04

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There are some $50 varieties Of fish
IN T''cr'da waters.
Florida farm ID 'ccreases 165 per
cent in value each decade. Sat- has
81, zoo, 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-five
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, saber-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.
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 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-f1ve cents a pound.
Florida produces winter grown to-
natoes and ships 5000 carloads; more
in total than all the other states CON-
bined.
Florida produces from twelve to
fifteen million bushels OF corn De.
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 is thirty.
third in population.
Florida has an average Of fifty-sey-
IN 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
wo to three hundred thousand gal
ons per minute, large enough to foas
teamboats. Silver Springs, near
)cala, flows $4,000 a minute. 1t is
'elieved to be the largest on earth.
Tourists spend $3O,OOO,OOO in the
tate every year.
There is $3OO,0O0,OOO invested In
otels in Florida. The Royal Poin-
iani is the largest frame hotel
rilding in the world.
Florida has $500 miles of railroads
perated by thirty-one different COM
anies.
Florida has the lowest death rate
t any state>in the Union.
The population of Florida has in
reased 80 per cent in five years.
The bank deposits increased 2OS per
ent in the last five years. There are
ow 201 banking institutions under
late control and 81 National banks.
One Florida city sent out to the
nokers of the country in 1915 over
,70O0,000 cigars. =
The Royal Palm State Park. AZ
lies from Miami, is the only one in
lie Union owned and promoted by the
ederation of Woman's clubs; it con,
inns wonderful collection of trees
Florida has 10 of the 6S Federal
servations for the protection and
of bird life.
Florida has "a state compulsory
Eool law.
Florida has many fine institutions q
r higher education. :
Key West is nearly 800 miles near. t
the Panama Canal than any Other e