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 The most noticeable change within the Southern Region was the.
changing order of importance of each state relative to the total
regional output of milk (Table 3). States which ranked first, second
and third in total production in 1925 were Texas, Tennessee and North
Carolina. These states still held the same rank in 1960 but only
in Tennessee and North Carolina did production increase enough to
account for a higher percentage of the total regional output. The
greatest movement in order of rank was for Florida which was tenth
in 1925, but rose to fourth in 1960. Florida's output of milk in
1960 was 9.7 percent of the regional total compared to only 2.1 percent
in 1925.


TABLE 3.--Farm
Rank According


Production of Milk, Percent of Regional Production and
to Production by State, Southern Region, 1925 and 1960


 Farm Production:
 State and Million Pounds:Percent of Total: Rank:
 Division: 1925: 1960: 1925: 1960: 1925: 1960:

Texas 2,679 2,927 26.5 21.8 1 1
Tennessee 1,378 2,202 13.6 16.3 2 2
North Carolina 1,054 1,554 10.4 11.5 3 3
Arkansas 1,043 901 10.3 6.7 4 8
Alabama 970 961 9.6 7.1 5 7

Mississippi 925 1,255 9.1 9.3 6 5
Georgia 924 996 9.1 7.4 7 6
South Carolina 492 536 4.9 4.0 8 10
Louisiana 442 842 4.4 6.2 9 9
Florida 211 1,306 2.1 9.7 10 4

 Total 10,118 13,480 100.0 100.0 .

United States 90,699 122,920 ....

South as a percent
 of United States 11.1 11.0 ... ... ..


 Source: Calculated from data in Table 2, p.10.


 Milk Marketed and Used on Farms.--From 1925 to 1960, dairy
farmers in the United States and the Southern Region increased the
volume and percent of milk output marketed. During this period,
milk production increased 36 percent nationally and 33 percent in
the Southern Region. The proportion of the United States output