2/8 FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY I3TH ANNUAL REPORT 



most fertile in the area under consideration, but it does not have 

 the highest yield of any crop shown in the table ; and the averages 

 for central Florida are close to the State averages, although the 

 soil is doubtless belo\y the State average in fertility.* Density 

 of population has more effect, for the western flatwoods and the 

 east coast strip each lead in three crops. 



ANIMAL PRODUCTS 



In several of the foregoing tables the number of animals per 

 farm in different regions at different times has been given, but 

 little has been said about the amount of meat, milk, wool, eggs, 

 honey, etc.. produced by them. Such information was gathered 

 more completely by the census of 1910 than by any preceding one, 

 and the results as far as they applv to central Florida are shown 

 in Table 38, which as usual has a column for each region, one for 

 the whole area, and one for the whole State. 



The census does not give the total production and value of 

 every animal product, but sometimes only the total or only the 

 surplus sold ; and the different kinds are lumped together more or 

 •ess in the returns of values. The results are computed on a per 

 farm rather than a per acre basis, for animals bear no close rela- 

 tion to either total farm land or improved land. 



The amount of milk, butter, poultry and eggs sold is rous^hly 

 proportional to the urban population, and is therefore highest in 

 the western division of the flatwoods, represented by Hillsborough 

 County. Hogs (and therefore animals slaughtered, which are 

 mostly hogs), are most important in the liraie-sink region, which 

 raises the most corn and peanuts. Animals sold on the hoof, 

 which are mostly beef cattle, of course lead in the eastern flat- 

 woods. Although that region has the most sheep per farm, they 

 must be raised mostly for mutton, for the Middle Florida ham- 

 mock belt exceeds it in wool per farm. The east coast leads in 

 honey, but is lowest in most other animal products, on account of 

 the intensive farming which prevails there. 



*The value of crops per acre is a different matter, though. In this re- 

 spect central Florida is over 60 per cent above the State average, as shown 

 in Table 33. not by producing larger yields, but by raising a larger proportion 

 of more valuable crops and less cotton, corn. oats, peanuts, etc. 



