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Title: American forests
Identifier: americanforests15natiuoft (find matches)
Year: [1] (s)
Authors: National Irrigation Association (U. S. ); New Jersey Forestry Association; South Jersey Woodmen's Association; American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry -- Periodicals
Publisher: Washington (etc. ) American Forestry Association (etc. )
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Indian Family in Canoes on Miami River afiforded the 200,000 tourists who come there every year. In the Landes a man could buy a farm for a few francs, but it required over two acres to sup- port one sheep. In less than a century the population sextupled, while that of a large part of the rest of the country either remained stationary or decreased. The fecundity of the French in places where there is plenty of room and opportunity is proverbial, as in Canada; it is even so in the Landes, which, on being- reclaimed, was equivalent to a new province or colony. All along the east coast of Florida there are dunes of snow-white sand covered with scrub ))ines and palmet- toes. This fine, white, silicious sand, although naturally sterile, is excellent for the growth of pineapples in re- gions where there is sufificient warmth. Mile after mile of this sand along the line of the railroad between the Ever- glades and the sea is used in the culti- vation of pineapples, which are fed a balanced ration of fertilizer, just as cows are fed a balanced ration of feed for the production of high-grade milk. This great Everglades basin, extend- ing from Lake Okeechobee to Miami and westward to the Gulf of Mexico, contains 3,000,000 acres, more or less. The whole cultivated area of the state of Florida is estimated at only about a million acres. The Everglades are larger than Porto Rico or Jamaica and as big as Rhode Island and Delaware combined. This great area is mainly confined by dunes of sand and ridges of limestone rock. These ridges, like fingers, project into the Everglades and are usually covered with pine. Between these ridges are small glades on the edge of the main or "big glade." The accepted definition of a glade is a nar- row strip of grassy land between for- ests. Glade refers to a grassy area. The big glade is all or "ever" glade. In this way, no doubt, the term Everglade originated. Here and there in the Everglades are islands covered with rich jungle or hammock hardwood growth. ()n these islands the Semi- noles cleared small areas, where they raise their crops. We visited the Everglades from Fort Lauderdale. It was after a long pe- riod of heavy rains, and the mosquitoes 457

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