| Show F L 0 nt oil JA 0 ai N TM RA B ae 4 A al A 4 potential turtle soup from florida prepared by the nat onal geographic society washington D a service EW tourists know industrial changing FEW florida there is no smoke pall hanging over the state perhaps more grime and pungent factory smells would be a welcome tonic tor for the states commercial progress yet what factories lack in size they make up in variety output ranges from toys turtle soup and turpentine to shiploads of dressed umber phosphates and cigars for even more contrast add many linear miles of snake and alligator skins wooden shoes and canned grapefruit jellies and marmalades one mill at jacksonville grinds ter shells and ships them bv by the car load to california to help the diges eions of pacific coast poultry another makes glass bottles tor for cuban brew cries palm fronds by the carload go as far north as canada for use on palm sunday palmetto fiber Is made into brushes A college student pays his way by stuffing baby aall alligators acors and selling them to tourists he ile stuffed in one season alligators not babies I 1 men alen wade on the bottom of the sea picking sponges as a farm boy pulls turnips they are scientifically farmed and are shipped the world around schooners cruise as far away as the coast of honduras catching sea tur ties unloaded at key west these turtles are first branded on the breast plate with the initials of the local fish ing company then they are put into big tanks and fed on seaweed later some are sent alive to new york ho aels their flippers neatly folded across their breasts and tied others guillo tined on a well worn beheading block are turned into canned soup sop at key west but before any turtle can be taken from the tank he has to pass an official inspection turtles may not have flat feet or suffer from nervous disorders orders but now and then one Is found in no condition to go to market he ile Is thrown back into the sea then sometimes a strange thing happens among a cargo of turtles from hon duras miles away one Is found with the company comp anys s initials already branded on his bony breast con damned and thrown back into the sea turtles it seems swim all the way back to honduras from florida to be caught again I 1 fullers earth mill near quincy in north florida Is a big building with wheels rollers and hoppers like a flour mill but it grinds dirt fuller 9 earth steam shovels scoop up the substance bv the acre it is dried ground sifted sacked and shipped to oil refineries all over the world through this fine tine powdery dust the oil Is filtered dry rie iners ners use it to take out grease spots it has many other uses even the clad cla used in beauty shops it in beds of this earth worl men find the bones of ancient animal scientists from the american muse im of natural history dug up the fossil laed body of a manatee the remains of saber toothed ti tigers ers prehistory lit tie tic horses and even of camels ages old have been found in fior flor da A man sits on a hi high b chair and reads aboud to workers in I 1 lorada cigar tac fac tories tortes they call him a lector many cigars are maie mane at key hey west and some at allam miami and nd Tack jacksonville sonville but the industry centers at tampa with its factories big and little one of them turns out upward of halt half a mill on a day much of the tobacco used Is import ed from cuba some Is grown in bior 1 ida and wrapper leaf also comes from northern states cheaper cigars are made by clever machines whose movements often cu piously resemble the motions made by the hands of a human cigar maker more expensive cigars of the size and shape known to the trade as coronas royals perfectos pane telas etc are all made by hand three workers sit ting ting in a row at the same bench form a team they are paid by the thou sand this grouping of workers into threes Is not done by the management it Is left to the cigar makers them selves to choose their bench mates ahe finishing touch on every cigar is putting on the wrapper and pasting tl e closed end shut with a dash of gum from the workbench cigars go on to bigger tables where they are sorted tor for color and perfection of form fancy rancy colored bands are put on by ma chines at the rate of an hour the whole process run by two girls after being packed each box Is la baled and one of uncle sam sams s green sa stamps amps affixed that briefly t t from leaf to box Is 1 how florida make makes GOO cigars a year pine and its products thick pine woodi woods covered all of 0 north florida when white men first tame came today at dawn in these pine wood the earth smells as fresh as it it had just been created the pine wis was and still Is the chief natural re source of the state lumber tand and its allies turpentine and rosin are the states chief manufactured products throughout much of all middle and borth florida you ride through for ests of pine and see trees cupped or scarified fled for turpentine pungent fumes from wayside weight the air to tap a tree and draw oft off its resinous gum bark Is chipped oft off in strips a few inches above ground then cups of 0 metal or clay are placed under these cuts to catch the gum it takes many thousands of trees to keep one fair sized turpentine mill running which works lust just as does an alcohol still turpentine and its associated prod net rosin are known as naval stores because originally their chief use was in shipbuilding today turpentine goes mostly into paints and varnishes and rosin goes into paper hard soap and many other commodities A few big mills in the state now grind up pine stumps and other waste lumber and these chips in great boilers ex tr trading acting not only turpentine and rosin but pine oil and other ingredients useful in industry and medicine the natives call the roots stump and lower portions of the pine because it burns so readily A visitor is always amazed at the speed with which a fire can be kindled in florida with a few splinters besides various pines florida also yields much cypress lumber from a tree which grows grow with its feet in wa ter some of the worlds largest cy press mills are here thena them Is 1 red gum too and black gum though not in quantities and time was when flor ida live oak timbers were in much demand among corthern por thern shipbuilders ship builders this live oak and ad its cousin the water oak are beautiful trees especially when festooned with long graceful filaments of spanish moss as one sees them along certain stretches of 0 the suwannee river great place for anglers when one considers the number ot of golf 0 if players the ancient game has developed in the united states then mul tipples the total by perhaps ten some idea of the army which swears by fish ing as a hobby bobby may be imagined and the lure of florida s teeming waters for the followers of izaak walton pic aured our government experts may solon estimate the hidden supply of coal ore oil and relative natural resources but no one has the temerity to try to gauge the crop of the fish life of the gulf stream except to prove that there are more than known varieties and others being steadily add cd ed to the list the warm waters off the east coast and corresponding con editions in the gulf of mexico on the western side aide are perhaps unequaled the world around as natures own in cebator of marine life just offshore on either coast the piscatorial enthusiast finds his happy hunting ground the sea Is alive with I 1 such fighting tribesmen as tarpon sail sall fish marlin albacore tuna barracuda wahoo amber jack dolphin grouper and many others familiar to salt water fib fishermen bermen on the coral barrier reefs but five miles off the east coast ex tending from miami beach to key west endless varieties of smaller fishes abound finding their food as well as a fair protection from natural enemies in the holes and crannies of the submerged coral ramparts great real schools of spanish mackerel kingfish and the lowly mullet migrate up and down serving their never satisfied ii appetites but always on the lookout for a thousand foes who lie ile in wait behind coral head and sea fern to strike at key hey west you see boatloads of spanish mackerel and kingfish brought in to be and iced teed and then away to your distant table from pensacola fleets fish for grouper and red snapper as far away as the coast of campeche campiche Cam peche in the gulf of mex ico too let us say for purposes of loca lion tion A smack out tour four weeks will it if the biting Is snappy bring in or pounds of snapper from pensacola scores of carloads go north each season snapper fishing Is best in winter but boats go also ll 11 in summer in spite ot of the fact that a long calm and intense tropical heat may mean drifting till all ice on board melts then there s nothing to do but tack c for home perhaps with no fish at all RIL 4 |
