With all of Florida's urban development, it's easy to forget the state's agricultural past is not that long-gone.

Florida's mid-section was productive cattle raising land, and the cattle were unhindered by fences:

The last large area of open-range ranching in the United States persisted into the twentieth century in peninsular Florida. The range, unowned by the cattlemen, most typically had an understory of wire grass and saw palmetto beneath an open stand of slash and longleaf pines. It was grazed by the Florida cow, a small bony long-horned descendant of mainly undifferentiated Spanish cattle. Such an animal was able to survive heat, drought, insects, poor forage, and most important of all, cattle tick fever. Cattle were driven overland mainly to Ft. Myers for sale and shipment from nearby Punta Rassa to Cuba.

Florida's open-range laws stayed on the books until 1949.

(quote from Atlas of Florida, edited by Edward Fernald and Elizabeth Purdum, 1992)