The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-02-26

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-five
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.
600, 900 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. It was worth in 1918 more
than seventy-flve cents a pound.
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 is thirty
third in population.
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.
Coquina rock, made up largely ..
shells, is found along the East Coast.
1t was the first stone used in Ameri-
ca for building purposes. Limestone
exists in all parts of the state.
More than 100000 tourists visit
Florida every year.
Floi .da's rank in the Union is s3rd
in population.
The manufactured products Of Flor
ida aggregate 500, 100000 per annum
The manatee, or sea cow, weighing
up to thousand pounds and turtles
UP to 200 pounds, are still found in
Florida waters.
Lee county is the largest one in
Florida, with 4,641 square miles. It
is 1923 square miles larger than both
Rhode Island and Delaware and near
~ as large as Connecticut.
There are 100 nurseries in Florida.
with home grown trees.
Ninety per cent Of the original
forests of Florida are still wooded,
though many acres are being thinned
annually.
There are more than 5000 different
species of trees, shrubs. herbs. ETC.,
in Florida.
Florida leads all other states In the
production of fuller's earth and ball
Don't get ''skeered' over snake and
alligator stories that may be told you
before you come to Florida. Tourists
visit here year after year and never
see anything more startling in re
spect to these reptiles than the goods
made from skins and for sale in the
curio stores Florida State Market
ing Bureau.
Florida has the only sponge fisher
les in the Union. Tarpon Springs
shipped over 100000 worth in 1917.
Severe wind storms are practically
unknown in Florida. Hurricanes or
iginating in the Southern seas swing
around the west end Of Cuba and
crossing the gulf usually strike the
coast about the mouth of the Missis-
sippi.