The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-09-25
Editor Pensacola Journal:


products per acre is greater in Flor
ida than in any other state, owing to
the large production OF winter grown
vegetables. OF the more than 81 million
acres Of land in the state less than
! 100000 acres are In cultivation, and
yet the products of garden, field and
grove have a value In excess Of $780,
100000. If our entireN acreage was put
to use as in the case of Denmark,
Holland and other countries of Europe.
Florida would be producing billions Of
dollars worth of products and there
would be comfort and abundance in
every home. For information about
soils and fertilizers write to DIR. r. E.
Rose, state chemist, Tallahassee.
Farmers troubled with insects or
plant diseases should write to Prof.
Wilmon Newell. state plant commits
sioner, Gainesville. The State Expert
ment Station, of which Prof Newell
Is director, can supply inquiries with
variety of bulletins relating to Flor
Ida agriculture.
! Florida can not only produce a great
variety of crops but it is a live stock
state. Cattle and hogs, sheep and
poultry, thrive here under right condi-
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regions where they are fed and housed
for half the year. These can be mar
keted in their hides and feathers in
stead of coming to US in barrels,
| boxes and cans. We can grow the
crops to feed them and grow the skins
and make them walk to the home
markets. The live stock industry has
its troubles, as in other states, but
fhnxr If %
weather on field, grove and garden
crops.
Does it ever enter your mind. dear
reader. Of the wonderful productive
soil in Florida, in general, and to give
you an idea, the agricultural and in
dustrial department, assisted by the
state Marketing Bureau, has compiled
figures showing the amount and the
value of the diverse crops produced
in Florida during the season of 1913
and 1920 exclusive. The citrus fruits,
Florida's general farm crops for the
year were valued at $7e,591.1S5. These
crops being corn. sweet potatoes Irish
potatoes, sugarcane syrup, oats, wheat
pecans. peanuts, velvet beans, sea ISL
and cotton, short stalk cotton, COW
peas, hay. rice, and soy beans. To
the uninitiated, It win come as a
great surprise to learn that corn will
do the best in quantity producing more
than twelve million bushels. valued at
25,000,oo0. Sea Island cotton follow
ing, at ten million, two Thousand. Pea
nuts came next, at 800 900 bushels,
bringing $4,000. There was even
raised $3.50 bushels of wheat in Flor
ida. The states truck and vegetable
crop was in the neighborhood OF $780,
100000. requiring. with our citrus fruit
crop, by actual records, 66,771 cars to
move solid train, exclusive of eng
ines and tenders, reaching an I'M
broken 4S1 miles from Pensacola to
South Carolina.
Tomatoes, valued at $6,9S1,249 came
first There were 6.117 cars Of them.
And the quantity of each and it's value
is startling when we hear talk of only
ten per cent of Florida farms in Gull
tivatipn. Florida shipped Irish pota-
toes worth $4,000. 493, dasheens. $685. |
900; squashes 1854; egg plant, 5000
222; cucumbers, s54,s49; watermelons,
$745, 645: cabbage; $1.953.575; celery,
$3.999.750 lettuce, 1881, 402; pepper,
$685. sS; onions, SIS, $50; canta-
loupes, S7,4O0; English peas, $97, 450;
DS6lSy SITOsOVQB AAl6 OCeAASt 04g1oBg-
$40; lima beans, $500, 04O; okra, $20,895:
$661,1 To eptomize
citrus fruits, 23,554 acres, valued at
about flfty-three million dollars, per-
ishable and 4,357 acres valued at $780,
900, 900 and the staple farm crops to
the value of s67,570, 135, a total of more
than $50, 200, 900.
What a pity we cannot now add to
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mutton and wool, hides, poultry, eggs.
milk, butter and honey. Now comes
the fish and oysters. Close to eight
million. Outside of our phosphate
mines and our lime kilns, brick, tile,
fullers earth pits, and the tobacco, we
produce, and cigars manufactured, If
we had total Of all this, the people
coming into the state, in making
known to the people Of other states,
would it be any surprise that there
would be a rush Of sanity to the heads
OF men? In other words, in other
states. and the rush Of immigration to
Florida.
Now, added to all this, nearly $1,000
300 in pecans. walnuts, and in black
berries, blue and dew berries, and the
vast peachcrop and the pear, the le-
,ant and kieffer and bartletts, besides
he persimmon, lime and plums. These
"details are absolute facts and besides
.hese, thousands OF tons Of the finest
egum hay Then to think of the ,
of families who are ekeing |
out a miserable life in the bleak north
ands, where you only can work the ,
Ioil six months out of twelve. and the
of warm clothing, coal :
ind fuel, and the miserable life shut :
ID in the closed house away from the !
Sod given life-giving sunshine and !
resh air, laden with the azome OF the !
ALT air from the gulf.
Florida is essentially what might be :
ermed an outdoor state. A part Of II
he world where 1t is possible for the j
Individual to be out in the open the :
greater part Of the time. For here !
here are no days of blIzzards or cruel
old weather, and there are but few
lays in the year that the sun does not /
dxtrfre Soma Of