The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-01-13
Facts about Florida

Florida farm 49, 'ccreases 165 pc
cent in value each decade. So 10
: S7,700,000 acres.
Florida has more than 10000, 90
acres Of land with firm red ella,
subsoil. 1t is not all sand.
i There are 100000 acres Of land II
: the Everglades as rich as any in tn
world.
Dogs kill 5000 sheep per annum /,
Florida. or three times az 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-fiv,
cars of "A" grade corn to Kansas
City last year.
Fossils remains brought to light b,
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 O
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 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 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-five cents 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 per
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 IL 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 how at the rate Of
two to three hundred thousand gal
Ions per minute, large enough to float
steamboats,. Silver Springs, near
Ocala, flows 375,000 a minute. 1t is
believed to be the largest on earth.
Tourists spend $4,000, 900 in the
state every year.
There is 100000 900 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 203 PEI
cent in the last five years. There are
now POI banking institutions under
state control and "a National banks.
One Florida city sent out to the
smokers Of the country in 1915 over
2S7, 900, 900 cigars.
The Royal Palm State Park, A.
miles 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 10 Of the 6S Federal
reservations for the protection and
preservation of bird life.
Florida has state compulsory
school law.
Florida has many fine institutions
for higher education.
Key West is nearly 800 miles near
er the Panama Canal than any other
American port.
The tarpon-the worlds most noted |
game fish-abounds in the seas
around Florida, catching 1t is one Of
the most exciting sports known to
fishermen.