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TABLE 41.-Number of commercial farms by race and tenure status of operator,
 and economic class of farm, North and West Florida, 1956


 S: Economic class
 : All :____
Race and tenure :commercial: :
 of operator farms : : Part-: : : :
 :V : time : V : IV : III II I
 : : V : : :


 : Number Number Number Number Number Number Number Number

White:
 Owner-operator : 94 11 10 19 32 14 6 2
 Owner-operator
 rent in : 50 5 5 4 17 11 7 1
 Owner-operator
 rent out : 13 2 4 3 2 1 1
 Owner-operator
 rent in and out: 3 .. ., 1 1 1 .
 Tenant operator : 12 1 1 4 3 2 1
 Other : 2 1 .. .* .. 1
 Undivided estate 3 .. .. 1 2 ..

Nonwhite:
 Owner-operator : 16 6 3 3 4 .
 Owner-operator
 rent in 6 3 1 2 .. ..
 Owner-operator
 rent out 1 1 .. .. .. ..
 Owner-operator
 rent in and out: 1 .. .. 1 ..
 Tenant operator : 10 6 .. 3 1 .. .
 Other : 1 .. ** 1 .. ..
 Undivided estate : 2 .1 1 .. ...

 All farms : 214 36 24 40 66 29 16 3


average than farms in other economic classes.


The 48 farms in the three


highest economic classes constituted 13 percent of total farms.


Together they


operated 39 percent of total land, 38 percent of cropland, and 58 percent of

permanent pasture.

 Commercial farms in economic classes IV, V, and VI operated by non-

white farmers arveaged 109 acres in size compared with 162 acres in farms in