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over the world are the fever-breeders, and those who culti- 

 vate these lands should know enough to locate their homes 

 several miles from them on higher ground. 



Where, however, these lands are thoroughly and perma- 

 nently drained in large bodies, as, for instance, by such 

 enormous operations as those undertaken by the great 

 Okeechobee Drainage Company, they become as healthy 

 spots for residences as can be found any where, a fact that 

 hundreds of people already settled on these wondrously 

 rich ' ' Reclaimed Lands " can testify. 



Hundreds of thousands, nay, millions of acres of pro- 

 ductive lands are thus being added to Florida's available 

 resources as the result of one of the greatest enterprises 

 of the age — a * ' howling wilderness " and waste of shallow 

 waters converted into a veritable ''Land of milk and 

 honey." 



