The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-02-10
Facts about Florida

There are some $50 varieties Of fsl
IN E,crida waters.
Florida farm ID ';,creases 165 pei
cent in value each decade. 81. ha'
s7,7O0,000 acres.
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 ir
the Everglades as rich as any in thu
world.
/ Dogs kill 5000 sheep per annum In
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-fivs
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
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 |
han seventy-five cents a pound.
Florida produces winter grown to- !
natoes and ships 5000 carloads. more
n total than all the other states COM !!
oined.
Florida produces from twelve to
fifteen million bushels Of corn per j
lnnum, Of as fine quality as any on !,
earth.
There are only twenty states in the
Union with more daily newspapers
han Florida, and our state is thirty. !
bird in population.
Florida has an average Of fifty-sev-
n inches Of rainfall annually.
Florida has some Of the largest and {
lost beautiful springs in the world. !
everal OF them flow at the rate of /
wo to three hundred thousand gal '
ms per minute, large enough to float
-eamboats. Silver Springs, near {
Gala, flows $4,000 minute. It is r
elieved to be the largest on earth.
Tourists spend s3O,0OO000 In the !,
ate every year. n
There is $3O0,OO0,OO invested In
otels in Florida. The Royal Poin- s.
ami is the largest frame hotel 5
Hiding in the world. II
Florida has $500 miles of railroads ii
'erated by thirty-one different COM n
mics.
Florida has the lowest death rate
any state in the Union. 4
The population of Florida has In in
eased 80 per cent in five years. r.
The bank deposits increased 2O3 Der ii,
mt in the last five years. There are
w 2Ol banking institutions under d,
ate control and 54 National banks
One Florida city sent out to the s..
lokers of the country in 1916 over Id
100000 cigars.
The Royal Palm State Park Il il
les from Miami, is the only one in #
Union owned and promoted by the w,
deration of Woman's clubs; it con.
MS wonderful collection of trees in
Florida has Is of the 6S Fedora, III,
iervations for the protection and
9servation of bird life. 90
has state compulsorv 10.
,ool law. go
has many fine institutions N,
higher education. ca,
Key West is nearly 900 miles near an,
the Panama Canal than any other
lerican port. 70 e.,
ne tarpon-the worlds most no,ad 70 ;.