The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-01-15

10000 acres.
Florida has more than 10000, 00(
acres of land with a firm red clay
subsoil. It is not all sand.
There are 100000 acres Of land Ia
the Everglades as rich as any in the
world.
Dogs kill 5000 sheep per annum In
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-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 PRACTICAL;
every Florida county. No state has 6
greater number Of nectar bearine
plants and flowers.
Florida has two kinds of trees no,
found elsewhere in the world as fal
as known to botanists. They are OIL
the confer or pine family.
More than 300 silos have been bull,
in Florida in recent years, the orb
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 fat, there beins
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 othe.
state. 1t was worth in 1918 more
than seventy-five cents a 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 tc
fifteen million bushels Of corn ne.
annum, Of as fine quality as any OF
earth.
There are only twenty states In til,
Union with more daily newspaper
than Florida, and our state is thirty
third in population.
Florida has an average OF ffty-sev.
en inches Of rainfall annually.
Florida has some Of the largest ant
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, neai
Ocala. flows $4,000 a minute. 1t Il
believed to be the largest on earth.
Tourists spend s3o,ooo,o0o in thu
state every year.
There is $3oo,Ooo,o00 invested II
hotels in Florida. The Royal Poin.
ciani Is the largest frame hote
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 30 per cent in five years.
The bank deposits increased 2o3 ne.
cent IN the last five years. There are
now 201 banking institutions under
state control and "a National banks
One Florida city sent out to the
smokers OF the country in 1916 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 tho
Federation Of Woman's clubs; it con
tains a wonderful collection Of trees
Florida has Is Of the ss 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.
Ell the Panama Canal than any othe;
American port.
The tarpon-the worlds most noted
game ish-abounds In the sea.
around Florida. catching II is one IT
the most exciting sports known to
fishermen.
Shad. pompano. Spanish macherel
sneephead, trout, red fish, and mule,
are among the many fine food fishes
OF Florida. Fishing is one Of the srea,