The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-04-26
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A FRIEND TO THE SOUTH


The South will ever be under obligation to the
Manufacturers Record of Baltimore for the valu-
able service it has rendered and is rendering every
week in the year to this section of the United
States One of the latest achievements is the is
suing of blue book on the South in which is set
forth in detail many of the resources about which
comparatively little is known even by the people
who live here, let alone the residents Of the West
and East Copies of this blue book are being dis
trbuted through out all sections of the United
States and Canada and no library can afford to
be without work of reference In fact
every school in the country might we'll afford to
make the text matter OF study because the gain
ing of such valuable information may well be con-
sidered liberal education. This is partial list of
the resources that are making the South the mar
ket basket OF the world:
About | 90 per cent Of the countrys bauxite
About 100 per cent of the country's fullers
earth.
About 90 per cent OF the countrys turpentne
and rosin. which is about IS per cent Of the worlds
output.
About 80 per cent of the countrys sulphur. or
more than three fourths of the worlds output.
About 90 per cent Of the country's phosphate
rock
About 81 per cent CT the country's crude
bartytes.
About 90 per cent of the country's aluminium.
About 80 per cent of the countrys carbon black
from natural gas.
About Is per cent OF the countrys natural gas
gasoline.
About % per cent of The countrys commercial
fertilizers.
About 90 per cent CT the country natural gas.
About 90 per cent Of the country's graphite.
About 81 per cent of the country's petroleum,
or about So per cent of the worlds production.
About 5 per cent Of the country's mica.
About so per cent Of the count:ys quartz.
About 50 per cent Of the countrys lumber.
About IS pei cent OF the country's asbestos.
About As per cent of the country's lead.
About AZ per cent of the country's zinc.
About 40 per cent of the country's asphalt.
About 40 per cent of the country's feldspar.
About 33 per cent of The country's tale and
soapstone.
About 100 per cent of the country's cotton
crop (less a few thousand bales raised in Arizona
and California; which is about so per cent of the
worlds cotton crop.
About 100 per cent Of the country cotonsecd
oil and peanut oil, which add annually several
hundred million dollars of food supply to the
North and West.
About 100 per cent of the country's peanuts.
About 90 per cent of the country's cane syrup.
About 90 per cent of the countrys sweet po-
tatoes.
About 90 per cent of the country's winter and
early spring vegetables.
About 80 per cent of the country's rice.
About 20 per cent of the countrys grain sorgh-
ums or kahis.
About 81 per cent of the country's cabbage.
About so per cent of the country's butter.
About 4o per cent of the country's peaches.
About AZ per cent Of the country's chickens.
About 60 per cent of the country's corn.
About 80 per cent of the country's honey.
About 80 per cent of the country's eggs.
And the South has:
About 81 per cent of the countrys swine.
About 80 per cent Of the countrys cattle.
About 80 per cent of the countrys mich cows
About 10 per cent of the country sheep.
Al. l.