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TABLE 28.--Number of Cows, Production per Cow and Total Production of
 Milk, Florida, Selected Years, 1925 to 1959

 Production Total Production
 Number of per Cowb Butterfat on Farmsb
Year Milk Cows Percent
 on Farmsa Milk Milk Fat percent Milk Milk Fat


 Thousand Pounds Pounds Percent Million Million
 Pounds Pounds
1925 74 2,850 123 4.30 211 9
1930 86 2,800 120 4.30 241 10
1935 98 2,960 127 4.30 290 12
1940 101 3,400 144 4.25 343 15
1945 120 3,900 166 4.25 468 20
1950 136 4,400 187 4.25 598 25

1955 175 5,050 210 4.15 884 37
1956 179 5,600 230 4.10 1,002 41
1957 185 5,880 241 4.10 1,088 45
1958 189 5,910 242 4.10 1,117 46
1959 192 6,460 265 4.10 1,240 51


 Source: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing
Service, Dairy Statistics, Statistical Bulletin No. 218 and No. 282
(Washington, D. C., October 1957 and April 1961). Also, Florida State
Department of Agriculture, Florida State Marketing Bureau, Annual
Agricultural Statistical Summary 1959-60 (Tallahassee, Florida,
November 1960).

 aAverage number during year, heifers that have not freshened
excluded.

 bExcludes milk sucked by calves and milk produced by cows not
on farms.


 Location, Volume and Movement of Supplies
 of Milk Sold by Producers,
 April and October 1959


 Location and Volume of Sales

 During the months of April and October 1959, Florida dairy pro-
 cessing firms received 192,340,000 pounds of milk from Florida pro-
 ducers (Table 30). Supplying producers were located in 60 of the