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with the economic level of the farm (Table 49).


TABLE 48,--Number of farms by race of operator, level of mechanization, and
 major farm economic class, North and West Florida, 1956


 S: Major economic class
 Race of .operator and : All :
 level of mechanization : farms : : :
 :: Residential : Part-time : Commercial


 : Number Number Number Number

White:
 No workstock or tractor : 65 37 10 18
 Workstock only : 48 13 16 19
 Workstock and tractor : 41 1 7 33
 Tractor only : 129 13 9 107

 Total farms : 283 64 42 177

Nonwhite:
 No workstock or tractor : 12 7 1 4
 Workstock only : 53 20 17 16
 Workstock and tractor 17 .. 3 14
 Tractor only 3 .. .. 3

 Total farms : 85 27 21 37

 All farms : 368 91 63 214



 Ownership of farm real estate, livestock, and machinery and equipment

with a total value of approximately $5 million was reported by the 368 farm

households (Table 50). Farm real estate accounted for almost 80 percent of the

total value, and the remaining 20 percent was almost equally divided between

livestock and machinery and equipment.

 The total value of these three major groups of resources reported by

nonwhite operators was considerably less than proportional to the number of

farms with nonwhite operators. Although they constituted 23 percent of all

farms, resources reported by farms with nonwhite operators amounted to only