Show FLORID n mp J le erg mv t 14 N potential turtle soup from florida prepared Pr pred by the th national geographic society washington D CS service EW tourists know industrial FEW florida there Is no smoke pall hanging over the state perhaps more grime and pungent factory smells would be a welcome tonic for the states commercial progress yet what factories lack in n size they make mah P up in variety output ranges from toys turtle soup and in turpentine to shiploads ship loads londs of dressed I 1 lumber 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 oyster shells and ships them by the carload to california to help the digestions of pacific coast poultry another makes glass bottles for cupan cuban breweries palm fronds by the carload go as far north as canada ter for use on calra sunday palmetto fiber Is made into brushes A college student pay pays s his way by stuffing ng baby alligators and selling them to tourists ile he stuffed 00 in one season alligators not babies 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 ners cruise as far away as the coast of honduras catching sea turtles unloaded at key west these turtles are first branded on the breastplate with the initials of the local fishing company then they are put into big tanks and fed on seaweed later some are sent alive to new york hotels their flippers neatly folded across their breasts and tied others guillo tined on a well worn beheading block are turned into canned soup 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 but now and then one Is found in no DO condition to go to market lie ile Is thrown back into the sea then sometimes a strange thing happens among a cargo of turtles from honduras miles away one Is found with the companas comp anys initials already branded on his bouy bony breast condemned and thrown back into the sea turtles it seems swim all the w way ny back to honduras from florida only to be caught again fullers earth mill near quincy in north florida ls Is a big building with wheels rollers and hoppers like a flour mill but it grinds dirt fullers earth steam shovel scoop up the substance by the acre it Is dried ground sifted sacked and shipped to oil ret reli inere all over tile the world through this line fine powdery dust tile the oil Is filtered dr dry y cleaners cle iners use it to take out grease spots it has many other uses even the cla used in beauty shops includes it in beds of this earth workmen tind find the bones of ancient animals scientists from the Ameil can museum of natural history dug up the fossilized body of a manatee the re malits of saber toothed tigers prehistoric ill little littie horses and even of camels ages old lave have been found in Flor florida lda A man sits sit s on a high chair and reads aloud to workers in 1 lordi florida cigar factories tort es they call him a I lector eLtor many cigars are wade nude at key west and some at Alla miami till brid Jack jacksonville sonvill e but the industry centers at tampa with its factories big and little one of them turns out up upward ward of half a million a day much of the tobacco used Is imported from cuba S some ome Is grown in florida and wrapper leaf also comes from northern states cheaper cigars are made by clever machines whose movements often curiously resemble the motions made by the hands of a human elgar cigar maker more expensive cigars of tile the size 1 ap and shape known to the trade as coronas royals perfect os pane telas etc are all made by hand three workers sitting tin in a a row at the same bench form a team they are paid by the thousand this grouping of workers into threes la is not done by the management it is left to the cigar mak makers cers themselves to choose their bench mates the finishing touch on every cl castr ar I 1 Is a putting on the wrapper and pasting the closed end sh shut ut with a dash of gum from the he workbench cigars go on to bigger tables where they are sorted tor for color and perfection of form fancy colored bands are put on by machines at the rate of 50 anh an hour our the whole process run by two 9 girls iris after being packed each box Is labeled and one of uncle sam sama 3 green ereen reanus rev reT nue nus stamps affixed th that at briefly from leaf to box la Is how florida makes make clears a year pine and its products thick pine woods covered all of 0 north florida Ilor lda when white men first came today at dawn in these pine woods the earth smells aa frebe fresh as it it 11 had just been created the pine was and still Is tile the chief natural resource of the state lumber and its allies turpentine and rosin are the states chief manufactured products throughout much of all middle and corth florida you ride through forests of pine and see trees cupped or scarified fied for turpentine pungent fumes from wayside stills weight the air to tap a tree and draw oft off its resinous gum bark Is chipped off in strips a few inches above ground then cups of 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 just as does an alcohol still turpentine and its associated product rosin are known as naval stores because originally their thief 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 steam these chips in great boilers extracting tr not only turpentine and rosin but pine oil and other ingredients useful in industry and medicine Pat wood 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 with its feet in water some of the worlds largest cypress mills are here them mbeni Is red gum too and black gum though not in quantities and time was when florida liveoak live oak timbers were in much demand among northern shipbuilders ship builders this live oak and its cousin the water oak are beautiful trees especially when festooned festoon ed with long graceful filaments fila in e 0 t S of spanish moss as one sees se P 3 them along certain stretches of the suwannee river great place for anglers when one considers the number of golf players the ancient game has developed in the united states then multiplies the total by perhaps ten some idea of tile the army which swears by y fish ins ing as a bobb hobby y may be imagined and the lure of Flo teeming waters for the followers of izaak walton ale pictured our government experts may scientifically estimate the hidden supply of mal coal ore oil and relative natural resources but no one has the temerity 0 0 try to gauge the crop of the fish life of the gulf stream except to prove that there are more than COO known varieties and others being steadily add ed to the list the warm waters off the east coast and corresponding conditions in the gulf of Al mexico exico on the western side are perhaps unequaled the world around as raptures ca ra tures own incubator of marine life just offshore on either coast the piscatorial enthusiast finds his happy hunting ground the sea Is alive with such fighting tribesmen as tarpon sailfish marlin inar llo albacore tuna barracuda wahoo amber jack dolphin grouper groupe r and many others familiar to saltwater salt water fishermen on the coral barrier reefs but live five miles off the east coast extending 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 grea t schools Is of spanish mackerel king kingfish tish and the lowly mullet nil migrate grate up and down serving their never catl satisfied appetites pet ites but always on the lookout f for or a thousand foes who lie in wait behind coral head find and sea fern to strike at ke key y west you see boatloads of span spanish I 1 sh mackerel and kin kingfish glish brought in to be and teed iced and then sway away to your sour distant table from pensacola fleets elsh for grouper an and red snapper as far away as the coast of campeche campiche Cam peche in the gulf of mexico CO let us say for purposes of location A smack out tour four weeks will it the biting is snappy appy bring in fit or 30 pounds of snapper from pensacola scores score of carloads go north each season snapper th Is best in winter but boats go also in summer in spite of the fact that a I 1 long ong calm cairn and intense tropical heat may mean drifting all all ice fee on board melts then theres to do but tack for otome colne perhaps waa with no DO fish at all |