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 Distributors are firms which sell milk and milk products but
 do no processing or packaging of such products. Many of these enter-
 prises exist in each market in Florida and are generally referred to
 by the colloquial term "bob-tailer."42/


 Number and Location of Firms

 In 1959 the Florida Department of Agriculture issued licenses to
 64 processor-distributors, 46 producer-distributors and 40 distributors
 (Table 19). The number of licensed firms of each type changed consider-
 ably during the past ten years. The number of processor-distributors
 licensed increased from 59 in 1951 to 64 in both 1957 and 1959, but
 declined to 57 in 1961. Companies licensed as producer-distributors
 declined from 56 in 1957 to 46 in 1959 and 39 in 1961. Distributor
 permits increased from 32 to 106 from 1957 to 1961.


 TABLE 19.--Number of Different Types of Dairy Firms Licensed by Florida
 Department of Agriculture by Milk Markets Area, Florida, Selected Year,
 1951 to 1961

Year Milk Marketing Area

 :Northwest' Northeast: Central: Tampa Bay' Southeast Florida

 Processor-Distributor
1951 8 9 14 13 15 59
1952 9 9 13 13 17 61
1957 11 10 9 17 17 64
1959 13 10 7 18 16 64
1961 11 8 7 17 14 57
 Producer-Distributora
1957 8 24 14 5 5 56
1959 7 21 10 4 4 46
1961 7 18 5 2 4 36
 Distributor
1957 2 7 3 8 12 32
1959 2 8 8 8 14 40
1961 13 22 20 12 39 106


 Source: Florida State Department of Agriculture, Division of
Dairy Industry, Tallahassee, Florida.

 aInformation on numbers of producer-distributor and distributor
licenses issued was available only for 1957,1959 and 1961.



 42The term is given status by definition in Florida Statutes.