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TABLE 25.-Population 14 years of age and older reporting work on home farm by
age and by months worked, 368 farm households, North and West, Florida, 1956


 : Months worked on home farm
 Age
 : : : : : : : : : :
 : 1 : 2 : 3 : 4: 5: 6 : 7 : 8 : 9 10: 12: Total


 No. No. o No No. No... No No. N No.. .No. No.

14 years : 4 3 8 .. 4 .. .. .. *. .. 1 20
15 19 years : 13 19 24 9 9 5 *. .. 1 8 88
20 24 years : 8 4 1 2 1 3 .. .. .. .. 3 22
25 29 years : 3 3 .. 1 1 1 *. 2 *. 10 21
30 34 years :3 2 2 ., 1 1 1 1 2 10 23
35 39 years :6 9 2 1 .. 3 1 1 1 2 23 49
40 44 years : 6 5 6 .. 1 3 1 .. 2 31 55
45 49 years :8 4 5 .. 1 5 1 1 2 7 38 72
50 54 years : 1 3 2 1 .. 1 .. 2 1 35 46
55 59 years : 2 1 1 .. 2 2 1 1 28 38
60 64 years 1 4 1 1 4 .. .. .. 26 37
65 69 years : 4 2 1 1 1 .. 1 .. .. 23 33
70 74 years 2 1 1 1 .. 1 1 16 23
75 years and over: 1 2 .. ~ *. .. 1 .. .. 10 14
Not ascertained : .. .. .* .. .. .. ** *. 1 2

 Total :61 63 54 17 19 26 7 8 9 16 263 543


the individuals reporting farm wage work were below

 Individuals reporting averaged 14 weeks o:

(Table 28). There was little difference in length

bers of the white and nonwhite populations. Weeks


the age of

f farm wage


25 years,

work in 1956


of time worked between mem-

worked by males averaged


more than twice as much as for females.

 Data was obtained on distance traveled to work for the two major types

of employment other than work on the home farm. Those persons reporting farm

wage work generally found employment in the immediate vicinity of their homes.

Approximately 88 percent reported traveling less than 10 miles, while only 9 of

the 270 individuals traveled a distance greater than 20 miles.

 Distribution of the 566 persons reporting nonfarm work by race, sex,

and occupation is shown in Tables 29 and 30. More than two-thirds of those