GEOGRAPHY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA 93

 'I he figures for dairy cows per average farm in 1910 seem rather excessive in comparison with other times and adjacent regions, and may indicate an error of some kind, or some. exceptional condition not explained by the census, such as a temporary accumulation of cows on one or two large farms.
 The leading crops in 1909, in order of value, as estimated from the U. S. census of 1910, were "vegetables" (about 72% of the total), corn, oranges, grape-fruit, peanuts, hay, oats, sweet potatoes, and sugar-cane (the value for the last representing the syrup made from it). In 1913-14, according to the state agricultural department, the order was 'cucumbers, tomatoes, oranges, cabbages, corn, (string) beans, hay, peanuts, sweet potatoes, watermelons, sugarcane (syrup), velvet beans, and lettuce.. But of course if the limesink portion of the, county in the northeast corner, could be separated this sequence might be changed a little. (There are no data for 1917-18, because the agricultural enumerator for Sumter County failed to make a report that year.)


 3. THE MIDDLE FLORIDA FLATWOODS
 This region extends from north of our limits through Levy County to the Withlacoochee River a few miles west of Dunnellon. where it seems to terminate abruptly. The greater part of it is in Middle Florida (west of the SUtwannee River), and it was described in the 6th Annual Report, pages 310-313. -About 300 square miles of it lies within the area of the present report,* and a small part of it is covered by the soil survey of the "Ocala area."
 It is a level region, perhaps nowhere more than 75 feet above sea-level, with many shallow ponds and bays, and some sluggish coffee-colored creeks. The ground-water is nearly everywhere close to the surface, and there are no known outcrops of limestone, so that the soil is rather sour. Most of the soil in this region within the limits of the "Ocala area" has been classed as "Leon fine sand."
 The vegetation is mostly of the palmetto flatwoods type, interspersed with numerous cypress ponds, bays, and non-alluvial swamps. The commonest plants recognizable in February, March and April seem to be as follows: