et al.,12/, 13/, determinedd costs of producing milk in market
areas regulated by the Florida Milk Commission. Cost data were
obtained from randomly selected wholesale dairy farms producing
milk in the Northeast Florida, Central Florida and Tampa Bay
milk marketing areas.

 The studies enumerated contain valuable information
regarding a few of the past and present dairy marketing problems
in Florida. Hone, however, had as its objective the determination
of current production-consumption balances, facilities and methods
used in movement of fluid milk from farms to consumers, or
projections of potential future demand for fluid milk products in
the major milk marketing areas of the State.

 Studies with objectives similar to this one have been
published recently in several other Southern states. Purcell and
Corty15/ reported on a study of the position of dairying in the
South. They.6/ also released a publication on the consumption and


 12/R. E. L. Greene, John Warrington and D. L. Drooke,
 Summary of Costs and Returns for Wholesale Dairy Farms Northeast
 Florida, 1958. (Gainesville, Florida: Florida Agricultural
 Experiment Stations, Agricultural Economics Mimeo Report 60-5,
 October 1959).

 13/R. E. L. Greene, John Warrington and D. L. Brooke, Summary
 of Costs and Returns for Wholesale Dairy Farms Central Florida, 1958
 (ainesville, Florida: Florida Agricultural Experiment Stations,
 Agricultural Economics Mimeo Report 60-2, October 1959).

 14/R. E. L. Greene, R. H. Walker and D. L. Brooke, Summary
 of Costs and Returns for Wholesale Dairy Farms Tampa Bay Milk
 Marketing Area, 1959 (Gainesville, Florida: Florida Agricultural
 Experiment Stations, Agricultural Economics Mimeo Report 61-5,
 November 1960).

 15/F. L. Corty, The Position of Dairying in the South
 (Experiment, Georgia: Georgia Agricultural Experiment Stations,
 SCS Bulletin 46, September 1956).

 16/F. L. Corty and J. C. Purcell, Consumption and Demand
 Fluid Milk and Fluid Milk Substitutes in the Urban South (Experiment,
 Georgia: Georgia Agricultural Experiment Stations, SCS Bulletin
 53, October 1957).