The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-05-19
Read and Be Glad.

Read and Be Glad. r
While everybody is worrying and
complaining of the high cost of the real
necessaries of life, and while the pro-
ducers of such necessaries are ex-
planning or trying to explain, why they
are charging high prices for their
products, it is at least a matter of in
terest to read of the exceedingly large
amount Of profits that are being made
by producers and manufacturers. For
instance, milk which is largely bought
in Florida in canned form, is away up
in price, twenty-five cents for a small
can that formerly could be bought for
twelve or fifteen cents. Now read,
and "be glad,' if you can, that the larg-
est canned milk producing company re-
ports a net profit for the year 1919 of
$4,284,602, and that it's net profit and
loss account stands with s8,S56,011 to
the good, that is to the good of the
company.
1t is really too bad that conditions
are such that a milk producing COM
pany can make a clear profit of only
little more than 100000 in single
year-paid to the company by the buy
ers and users of canned milk, many
of them in Florida where conditions
are most favorable for dairying-the
original source of milk.
If any one with even small patch
Of ground in Florida, a patch large
enough to keep COW, can read Of the
profits made by canned milk producers
and be glad, it's a wonder Neverthe-
less, there are any number Of owners
of small farms in Florida who are pa
irons Of the canned milk manufa ctur-
ers, when they could be getting their
supply from their own cow or cows.
There are excellent diaries in Florida
but not nearly enough of them to sup
ply the home demand for milk. Hence
it is that the canned milk manufac-
turers must be patronized and en-
riched by money that should be kept in
Florida There are indications, how
ever. that more and more attention is
being paid in this state to the pro-
duction of milk through the keeping of
purebred cows This is as it ought to
be, and the real occasion to "be glad"
will be when Florida produces all the
milk that it's people need. It can be
done: it ought to be done, and now
is the time to begind ding it in real
earnest.-Jacksonville Times-Union.
Oil Drilling in Florida.
It has been commonly believed that
oil indications in Florida, have induced
of great oil companies
to undertake the finding of it: and this,
to many, is the reason why so many
places in the state are today being ex-
pIored, and tested, out and "divined, !"
and bored for oil.
So far nothing but hopefulness has
really sent the drill going down. It is
said there is fine possibility of
finding oil somewhere along the coastal
region, especially of the Gulf. and most
Of the projecting is being done today
in that region. between Pensacola
and Cape Sable.
1t may be that we will strike oil in
Florida. However. the Manufacturers
Record does not think there is much
chance, judging from it's article in a
recent issue. entitled: Drilling for Oil
in Florida" wherein we read:
Wells have been drilled for Oil in
every state in the Union, except in the
New England States, and possibly
North Carolina, South Carolina, Ne
vada and Idaho, according to a bull
letin just issued by the United States
Geological Survey. Only sixteen states,
however. can be called oil producing.
A number of deep wells have been