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TABLE 49.--Number of commercial farms by race of operator, level of mechaniza-
 tion, and economic class of farm, North and West Florida, 1956


 : Economic class
 All :_____.
 Race of operator and : commercial : :
 level of mechanization : farms : : Part- : : : : :
 : : VI : time : V : IV : III : II I
 : : V : : : :


 : NoT. Io.. -. NL. NTiOQ. No. No.- No.

White:
 No workstock or
 tractor 18 5 2 5 5 1 .. .
 Workstock only : 19 5 2 7 5 .
 Workstock and
 tractor : 33 3 1 3 11 7 7 1
 Tractor only : 107 7 15 17 36 21 9 2

 Nonwhite:
 No workstock or
 tractor 4 1 .. 2 1 .. ..
 Workstock only : 16 9 2 4 1 ., ..
 Workstock and
 tractor : 14 5 2 2 5 .. .. ..
 Tractor only 3 1 .. .. 2 .

 All commercial
 farms : 214 36 24 40 66 29 16 3


6 percent of the value of total resources.


As indicated previously, the major


portion of total agricultural resources was reported by farms in economic

classes I, II, and III, which appeared only among the farms with white operators.

The value of resources reported by the 48 farms in these three classes amounted

to almost 50 percent of the value of total resources reported by the operators

of the 368 survey farms.

 Investment in land, livestock, and machinery and equipment averaged

$13,569 for the 368 farms (Table 51). As would be expected, average investments

increased with farm productivity--they ranged from $4,700 for the 91 residential

farms to $123,000 for the 3 farms in economic class I. Investments in farm