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Alabama 85 miles northwest of Pensacola, the Florida destination. Adjust-
ing both shipments to a 4.0 percent butterfat basis leaves a price spread
of nearly $3.00 per hundred pounds. The delivered price range for ship-
ments from eight shipping points for which complete data were available
was $4.79 to $7.48, or somewhat less than the range in the F.O.B. origin
price. Part of the differences in delivered prices was due to the vari-
ation in the distance between points of origin and Florida destination.
The lowest delivered price for out-of-state milk was from a source with
the lowest F.O.B. origin price, $4.16, and shortest hauling distance,
325 miles.

 Shipping distances between points of origin and Florida markets
 (destinations) varied from 85 to 1,400 miles. Shipping charges varied
 considerably, ranging from 0.12 to 0.20 cent per hundredweight per mile.
 On the basis of the few shipments for which information was obtained, it
 was not possible to determine what prices might prevail for fluid milk
 supplies and shipping charges from various distances if Florida dairy
 firms were to rely more heavily upon these out-of-state sources. Further-
 more, all prices reported were for emergency shipments only required be-
 cause of seasonal patterns of production and utilization. It can be seen
 from the data that, from five of the nine supply sources, milk was ob-
 tained at delivered prices as much as $2.28 per hundredweight below the
 average blend prices in some Florida markets during the period. However,
 the prices may have been for supplies that were in surplus in these areas.
 The F.O.B. origin prices did not necessarily reflect the prices paid to
 producers for fluid milk utilization in their local markets.


 Location, Volume and Distribution of Milk
 Products Sold to Consumers,
 April and October 1959


 Location and Volume of Sales of Fluid Milk
 Florida consumers purchased 196,653,000 pounds of fluid milk
 products in April and October 1959 (Table 36). In order to rank by milk
 marketing areas, sales volumes were: Southeast--73,472,000 pounds,
 37.3 percent of total; Tampa Bay--46,206,000 pounds, 23.5 percent of
 total; Central--31,227,000 pounds, 15.9 percent of total; Northeast--
 25,393,000 pounds, 12.9 percent of total; and Northwest--20,355,000
 pounds, 10.4 percent of total.

 Dade County in the Southeast area ranked first, accounting for
 sales of 42,409,000 pounds, or 21.6 percent of the total for the State.
 Duval and Hillsborough counties ranked second and third in sales.
 Volumes marketed were 18,815,000 pounds in Duval and 18,213,000 pounds
 in Hillsborough County, or 9.7 and 9.2 percent, respectively, of the
 State total. Sales in nine counties were less than 0.05 percent of all
 marketing. Glades County in Southeast Florida was the only county in