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TABLE 29.--Milk Disposition and Income to Farmers, Florida, Selected
 Years, 1925 to 1959

 Delivered
 Retailed to Plants Total Cash Receiptsd
 Total Uti- by and Dealers Milk
Year Farm lized Farmers and Per Hun-
 Pro- on as Milk As As Cream dred- Total
 ductiona Farmsb and Whole Cream Marketed weight
 Creamc Milk

 Million Million Million Million Million Million DollarsT thousand
 Pounds Pounds Pounds Pounds Pounds Pounds -- Dollars
1925 211 76 70 59 6 135 6.29 8,865
1930 241 80 70 86 5 161 5.62 9,442
1935 290 96 74 112 8 194 4.19 8,459
1940 343 90 75 172 6 253 4.09 10,632
1945 468 83 80 304 1 385 5.44 21,225
1950 598 74 78 446 --- 524 7.05 37,300

1955 884 56 57 771 --- 828 6.99 57,867
1956 1,002 52 53 897 --- 950 6.89 65,495
1957 1,088 46 48 994 --- 1,042 7.02 73,149
1958 1,117 42 45 1,030 --- 1,075 7.06 75,946
1959 1,260 37 43 1,160 --- 1,203 6.98 83,916


 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 Agri-
cultural Statistical Summary 1959-60 (Tallahassee, Florida: November 1960).

 aExcludes milk sucked by calves and milk produced by cows not on


farms.


 bIncludes milk used on farms where produced as fluid milk or
cream, farm-churned butter and feeding to calves.

 cApproximations based on information on sales by producer-
distributors and other farmers on own routes or at farm.

 dFor 1950 and earlier years, includes cash receipts from farm-
churned butter.


eCash receipts divided by total milk marketed.