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Size and Production of Florida. Florida has 35,111,040 acres; in actual cultivation, 1,636,983, leaving not in actual cultivation 33,474,057 acres. The. total assessed value of real property for 1918 was $233, 750,566, and for personal property, $69,815,509, making a total of $303, 566,075. According to the State Bu reau of Markets the total crop val ue for 1919 was $131,000,000. There are fifteen thousand men engaged in the fish industries of the state. Flori i da shipped 66,792 car loads of fruit and vegetables last year. Livestock, dairying and poultry products 'amounted to $26,000,000. The number of native and in tro duced trees of Florida is two hundred and eighty and the number of dif ferent kind of hirds of the state is three hundred and fifty, and of fish, six hundred and fifty. The flora of Florida is so extensive that no one as yet has completed a comprehen sive work on it, The counties of Florida spent in three years, ending September, 1919, $17,085,432.80 on roads and bridges. (South Carolina bow your head in holy horror.) Some people think of Florida as an orange orchard, a lake or an ever glade. The greatest acreage planted to any one crop in the State is grain, corn. Practically the entire northwes tern section is adapted to general farming, which includes corn, hay, peanuts, tobacco, velvet beans, cow peas, oats, rape ?sugar cane, sorghum, pasture grasses, cotton, livestock and bruits. It is the northwest portion of the state that produces most of the feed stuff. The muck lands of the state-which are not confined to the | . everglades-are splendid lands for .corn, cane, vegetables, etc. They were once the bottoms of the lakes, and are very rich in plant food. The 17,000, 000 bushels ,of corn produced in 1917 could be easily quadrupled by bringing under cultivation splendid grain lands by drainage in counties where corn is already grown. The peanut is the second largest crop of the state, the production in 1918 be ing over five million bushels. The vel vet bean has grown in favor, and the crop is about 2,000,000 bushels a year. The beggar weed is a splendid leguminous plant that furnishes good grazing and hay. The present crop of sweet potatoes .will exceed 4,000,000 bushels. Last year's crop of tobac co was 4,000,000 pounds. Peanuts, 3,402,000 bushels. Florida now has four grain elevators, located at Mar ianna, Jacksonville, Greenwood and .Tallahassee. Some of these handle velvet beans ,cewpeas, peanuts and cotton seed in the same manner as corn. The value of, exports passing through Jacksonville is more than $8,000,000, $1,000,000 of which was peanut meal and mixed feeds. The naval stores and lumber exports through Key West in 1919 amounted to $2,000,000 each. Key West, Miami, Jacksonville . on the south and east are ports where Florida produce is interchanged with the ports of the world. One of the great crops raised in the state is the citrus crop. Florida shipped in 1919 ?bout 12,000,000 boxes of citrus fruit. Pinellos coun ty, though the smallest county in the state in size, shipped one-twelfth of the citrus crop of the state. The lo cation of Pinellos county, between the great bodies of water, Tampa Bay on the east and the Gulf of Mex ico on the west, produces a beneficial effect on citrus fruit and places at a minimum the danger from frost. The muck lands of this county have hun dreds of acres of fine garden and truck lands available and only await the man who will see the opportuni ty and take advantage of the rich soils and plant. I have traveled extensively in the state and will venture to say that Florida has made greater progress along all lines for the last twenty-five years than any other state in the union. While nature has done won ders for the state, man and money have accomplished much also. The best roads that 1 ever traveled over, hundreds and hundreds of miles, are paved with brick and the work is still going on. One can go from Jackson ville to Tampa, two hundred miles, and never get a jolt, and from the Gulf of Mexico to Miami, in fact, nearly all the public highways are paved. This year the general ?ssem bly of the state added $5 more to the old Confederate veterans, they now get $25 a month. Florida has not for gotten her obligations to these old fellows upon whose heads the snow that never melts hath fallen. 1 have said, and now say that there has risen up another king in South Carolina who knew not Joseph. There is a stinginess that tends to poverty. J. RUSSELL WRIGHT. St. Petersburg, Fla. WEDDING PRESENTS: See Miss Eliza Mims' handpainted china be fore selecting your wedding presents. District Welfare Conference at Greenwood. '' The Local Committee of the State Board of Public Welfare for Edge field county have announced the plans for a district welfare confer ence to be held in Greenwood on Wednesday, June 1st. The Local Committee here, consisting of Mr. T. B. Greneker, Dr. A. R. Nicholson and Mrs. J. L. Mims, have planned the meeting in conjunction with the committees of Greenwood, Newber ry, McCormick and Abbeville coun ties. Questions discussed w/11 be the pub lic care of indigents, the maintenance of the county homes, the care and maintenance of the modern jail, the work of the juvenile reformatories of the state. This conference is ex pected to meet the needs of the offi cials working with these institutions, jailors, sheriffs, supervisors, superin tendents pi county homes, foremen of the chaingangs, foremen of the grand juries, local committees of the state board of public welfare, and other public spirited citizens. The program consists of a morning and afternoon session. The morning session beginning at 10:30 and run ning" until 2:00 o'clock. One hour will be given to the county home discus sion. A represenattive of the Green ville county Commission of Chari ties and Correction has been invited to be present to tell of the work of the Greenville County Home. The Greenville Home is considered by those who know as the best institu tion of its kind in this State. In fact, it is the only one, according to the in spector of the State Board of Public Welfare, that can be considered a real county HOME. Each inmate of the institution is required to employ him self at some useful task. He is given his choice of a vegetable garden, a flower garden, a cotton patch, a job of quilting, raising pure blooded poul try, or some other task around the home. Cleanliness in this institution is considered next to Godliness. There is a case on record of an old lady who came to the institution and re fused to take a bath, stating that she had not done so since she was a school girl. She was bound by the superin tendent and a hired man and later his wife and a helper gave her a much needed bath. The c^d lady is now com fortable and happy. The health of the inmates is very zealously looked af ter by a fine young physician of the city of Greenville. The second hour of the program will be given up to a discussion of the needs of a modern.jail and the importance of the jail question in this group of counties. There were during the last statistical year, 7,386 com mittments to jail in the State of South Carolina. This according to the census of 1921 is one committment for every 228 persons in the state. The average daily population of the 44 jails of the state is 405. The care and maintenance of these prisoners will be discussed at the conference. The last hour and a ?half of the morning session will be devoted to trips to the Greenwood county home, jail and chaingang. The Greenwood Chamber of Commerce extends the in vitation to the visitors for this trip. These institutions, while not by any manner of means models may serve, as one member of the Greenwood committee put it, as examples of what some of these institutions should not be. The afternoon session will be .chiefly inspirational. A speaker whose name cannot yet be announced will deliver the chief address of the oc casion. Mr. G. Croft Williams of the State Board of Public Welfare will 'tell of the work now being done by the juvenile reformatories of the state. The State Board of Public Welfare is a joint Board of Control for the Reformatory for negro boys in Lexington, the South Carolina In dustrial School for Girls, and the Sopth Carolina Industrial School for Boys at Florence. Mr. Williams there fore knows intimately of the work of these institutions and is qualified to speak on the work they are doing. The sessions of the conference will be held in the auditorium of the Chamber of Commerce in Greenwood. Ford products--Ford touring cars, Ford runabouts, Ford coupes' Ford sedans, Ford- trucks, Fordson tra?" tors-have all tumbled in price until they are within reach of people of very moderate means. If you need a Ford, any kind of Foi*d, come in and let us talk it over with you. Eyes scientifically examined and glasses properly fitted. GEO. F. MIMS, Optometrist-Optician, t' Edgefield, S. C. YONC? & MOONEY. r Tire Mileage at the Lowest Cost in History SIZE and TYPE 30 x 3 Clincher 30 x 3 J Clincher 32x3i S.S. 32x4 S.S. 34x44 S.S. . 35 x 5 S. 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The Hustlers of Philippi Baptist church entertained the Willing Work ors with a moonlight lawn party, May 19th, in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Derrick. Rev. G'. M. Sexton and Mrs. J. L. Scott, our teachers, helped in plan ning games and music for our enjoy ment. After spending a while playing outdoor games we were invited into the dining room and served with ic? cream and cake. All went home feeling happy after having such a delightful time. We. are all thankful that we have organized classes at Philippi. We are doing splendid work and our mem bership is increasing. We hope for better results further on. Our class rooms are going to be furnished very soon. We hope ,to make our Sunday school one of the very best and lead outsiders into the church. One of our class members, Bessie Yonce happened to a serious acci dent recently, hurting her ankle. She has been confined to her bed for sev eral weeks, but is improving now. We miss her and hope she will be able to be with us again soon. 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