278 FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY-I3TH ANNUAL REPORT

most fertile in the area under consideration. but it does not have the highest yield of any crop shown in the table: and the averages for central Florida are close to the State averages, although the soil is doubtless below the State average in fertility.* Density of population has more effect, for the western flatwoods and the east coast strip each lead in three crops.

 ANIMAL PRODUCTS
 In several of the foregoing tables the number of animals per farm in different regions at different times has been given, but little has been said about the amount of meat, milk, wool, eggs, honey. etc., produced by them. Such information was gathered more completely by the census of 1910 than by any preceding one, and the results as far as they apply to central Florida are shown in Table 38, which as usual has a column for each region, one for the whole area, and one for the whole State.
 The census does not give the total production and value of every animal product, but sometimes only the total or only- the surplus sold:, and the different kinds are lumped together more or 'ess in the returns of values. The results are computed on a per farm rather than a per acre basis, for animals bear no close relation to either total farm land or improved land.
 The amount of milk, butter, poultry and eggs sold is ronihly proportional to the urban population, and is therefore highest in the western division of the flatwoods, represented by Hillsborough County. Hogs (and therefore animals slaughtered, which are mostly hogs), are most important in the lime-sink region, which raises the most corn and peanuts. Animals sold on the 'hoof, which are mostly beef cattle, of course lead in the eastern flatwoods. Although that region has the most sheep per farm, they must be raised mostly for mutton, for the Middle Florida hammock belt exceeds it in wool per farm. The east coast leads in honey, but is lowest in most other animal products, on account of the intensive farming which prevails there.
 *The value of crops per acre is a different matter, though. In this respect central Florida is over 6o per cent above the State average, as shown in Table 33, not by producing larger yields, but by raising a larger proportion of more valuable crops and less cotton, corn, oats. peanuts, etc.