The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-01-20

There are some $50 varieties Of Ash
Al, r'da waters.
Florida farm 49, '-creases 165 per
cent in value each decade. 81. hss
S7,700, 900 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 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-fiva
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, sabert oothed tiger,
end 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 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 $5,-
100000 worth of potatoes in 1917.
Florida has many varieties of grass
es and forage crops.
The dasheen, a tuber having foou
value in excess of the potato, and
making large yields, is Florida crop
Florida is not all fiat, there beins
many hills and valleys, as pretty AMI
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-flve 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 t.
fifteen million bushels of corn pc
annum, Of as fine quality as any Of
earth.
T 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
v ec inches of rainfall annually.
Florida has some of the largest an
/. most beautiful springs in the world
! Several of them flow at the rate O
4 two to three hundred thousand gal
Ions per minute, large enough to foa
steamboats,. Silver Springs, nea
!. Ocala, flows 375,OO0 a minute, 1t
believed to be the largest on earth
| Tourists spend $30,000,000 in tn
state every year.
l There is $3OO,O0O,OO0 invested /
| hotels in Florida. The Royal Poir
! ciani is the largest frame hott
( Luilding in the world.
] Florida has $500 miles Of railroad
operated by thirty-one different con
| panies.
I Florida has the lowest death raj
CT any state in the Union.
> The population Of Florida has IL
creased 80 per cent in five years.
The bank deposits increased 203 pt
- cent in the last five years. There al
2 row 201 banking institutions undo
! state control and 81 National bank!
I One Florida city sent out to IL
Z smokers of the country in 1916 ov'
= l2S7 900 900 cigars.
J The Royal Palm State Park,
( miles from Miami, is the only one
I the Union owned and promoted by Il
! Federation of Woman's clubs; it COZ
!: tains wonderful collection Of tree
: Florida has 10 of the SO FEEDER
I: reservations for the protection ar
!! preservation of bird life.
!: Florida has a state compulso
/ school law.
:: Florida has many fine institution
!. for higher education.
/ Key West is nearly 900 miles nea
Z Ell the Panama Canal than any 9th