The Lakeland evening telegram., 1920-02-24

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 $3,OOO,O 900.
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 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 mako thread
and lace material-than any other
state. It was worth in 1918 more
than seventy-hve cents q 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 to
fifteen million bushels Of corn pc:
annum, Of as dne quality as any on
earth.
There are only twenty states In the
Union with more daily newspapers
than Florida. aud our state is thirty.
third in population.
The tarpon-the worlds most noted
game fsh-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.
It 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.
Flolida's rank in the Union is 3Srd
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
ly as large as Connecticut.
There are 100 nurseries in Florida.
with home grown trees.
Ninety per cent of the origina!
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
clay.
Florida reported 50,016 farms In
1910. Sh ecould have ten times as
many.
Florida ranks first in the union In
the production of turpentine.
There are some 500 saw mills in
Florida, turning out yearly 1,250. .o0O,-
900 feet Of lumber not counting cross
ties, poles, slaves. veneers, tanbark
etc.
Andrew Jackson was the first gov.
ernor Of Florida.
Florida clay makes good brick.
Severe wind storms are practically
unknown in Florida. Hurricanes Or
ieinating 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.
Florida has a climate allowing the
growth Of crops in every month.
Florida has as large and fine sea
beaches as any in the world. National
automobile races are frequently held
here in the winter.
Florida produces the finest Of pine
apples and has shipped as high as a
million crates in year. The largest
plantations are along the East coast,
in sand an nuro ond uphs3n kh.A /.