Florida Department of Agriculture Nathan Mayo, Commissioner State Marketing; Bureau L .M • Rhode s , C onimi 3s ioner 1935-36 ANNUAL FRUIT AND VEGETABLE REPORT FL0R1D.V STATE HAftKETING BUREAU By Frank Scruggs, Market Hews Specialist OUTLINE HAP OF FLORIDA (Numbers corresponding to Rail Shipping Rani: of Counties) Fcnsacola 1935-1936 Sea 20 Counties Leading in Ra_ \jacksonvillc Rank County 1 Polk Orange I
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Florida Department of AgricultureNathan Mayo, Commissioner
State Marketing; BureauL .M • Rhode s , C onimi 3 s ioner
1935-36ANNUAL FRUIT AND VEGETABLE REPORT
FL0R1D.V STATE HAftKETING BUREAU
By Frank Scruggs, Market Hews Specialist
OUTLINE HAP OF FLORIDA
(Numbers corresponding to Rail Shipping Rani: of Counties)
Fcnsacola
1935-1936 Sea20 Counties Leading in Ra_
\jacksonvillc
Rank County1 Polk
Orange
I
Page 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS
P ages
Outline Map of Florida showing location of principalshipping Areas, etc , 1
Table of Contents and Foreword 2
General Summary of the Florida 1935-36 Fruitand Vegetable Season 3
Statistics and Estimates on Florida Citrus Crop forthe 1935-36 Season ". 4-5
Statistics and Estimates on Florida Vegetables, Melons,and Non-Citrus Fruits for 1935-36 Season 5
Rail Carlot Shipments from Florida by Commodities andMonths, for 1935-36 Season 6
Boat Shipments by Months of Florida Fruits and Vegetablesfrom Florida Ports in Domestic Trade for 1935-36 Seasontogether with Exports and Pick- Up-Express Shipments 7
Florida Citrus Shipment and Production Data withGross and Net Valuations for 10 Years 8
Florida Citrus Plantings according to 1934 Survey 9
Statistics and Estimates of Florida Fruits and Vegetablesby Volume and Value for 5 Years, including 1935-36 Season.... 10-14
Seasonal Acreage of Florida Truck Crops. 15
Rail Shipments (Straight Cars) of Fruits and Vegetables byCounties for 3 Seasons 16-22
Carlot Shipments (Rail and Boat) of All Florida Fruits andVegetables" by Months for Season 1935-36 23
Carlot Equivalent Shipments of Florida Fruits and Vegetablesby Rail and Boat for 10 Years 24
FOREWORD
This Annual Fruit and Vegetable Report is the outgrowth of theconstant demand by growers, shippers, the press, carriers, fertilizercompanies, banks, official agencies, and other interested parties,for a complete statistical summary covering shipments and miscellan-eous data of the Florida fruit and vegetable industry.
Rail and boat shipment figures based on carriers' daily andmonthly wire and mail reports, received from the Fruit and VegetableDivision, U.S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics, were used in thepreparation of the special shipment tabulations.
Estimates of volume and value for the various fruits andvegetables wore made and prepared in the State Marketing Bureau.
FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURESTATE MARKETING BUREAU
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ANNUAL FRUIT AND VEGETABLE REPORT '. •
STATE 'MARKETING BUREAUBy Frank Scruggs, Market News Specialist
The Florida 1935-36 fruit and truck crop season was marked by aharvest volume equivalent to 127.181 carloads with a Florida grossvalue of &87, 333,898, (approximately 14 per cent above last season,see page 14), these totals being based principally on official recordsThe gross value total shown here, and elsewhere in this summary, in-cludes cost of production, preparing for market, selling charges, etc.,and Is not net to farmer.
Rail and boat movement accounted for 48,916 cars or 19,232,052boxes of citrus, having a gross value of 041, 206, 791 and a net valueof 014,717,619, equivalent to around 76ft.' per standard box.
Truck movement of citrus to out of Florida points accounted for avolume equivalent to 9,425 carloads or 3,770,000 boxes.
Cannery operations- in Florida required around 9,750 carloads or3,900,000 boxes of citrus, grapefruit accounting for 3,760,000 boxes.
Consumption of citrus in Florida was roughly estimated at 6,400carloads or 2,560,000 boxes.
The total harvest of citrus for all purposes was equivalent toapproximately 74,491 carloads or 29,462,052 boxes, with an estimatedgross valuation of ^55,189,191, and a net on tree valuation ofg20,2ll,899, or around 69^ per box.
Watermelons, strawberries, and other non-citrus fruit shipments byrail and boat accounted for 4,977 carloads with a gross Florida f.o.b.valuation of 2 , 615, 488.
Vegetable shipments by rail and boat supplied a volume .equivalentto 32,797 carloads with a trross Florida f.o.b. valuation of$24,101,339.
Truck shipments of vegetables, watermelons, strawberries, and mis-cellaneous non-citrus fruits supplied an additional 3,850 carloadswith an estimated Florida f.o.b. gross valuation of 02,715,200. Thevolume of such commodities Consumed or canned in Florida was estimatedat 10,936 carloads with the Florida sales point gross valuation amount-ing to $4,712,680.
The total harvest of vegetables, watermelons, strawberries, and mis-cellaneous non-citrus fruits was equivalent to 52,690 carloads withan estimated gross valuation of 034,144,707.
The 20 Counties leading in rail shipments were in order of volumeas follows: Polk, Orange, Seminole, Palm Beach, Lake, Broward, Manatee,Dade, Hillsborough, Sarasota, Alachua, St. Johns, Marion, Pinellas,Highlands, Lee, St. Lucie, Suwannee, Sumter, Putnam.
Polk and Orange lead in Citrus, Palm Beach and Seminole lead inVegetables, Lake and Hillsborough lead in Non-citrus Fruits, shippedIn rail carlots.
Fruit and vegetable rail and boat shipments during the 1935-36season were 10.6 per cent bclow> the average volume for the last 10seasons. The gross value of 1935-36 crop was approximately010,600,000 more than for the previous year.
For more detailed information please see the Table of Contentsand following pages.