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proportional earnings from this source of income. The reverse was true for

all family head age groups above 50 years.

TABLE 69.-Number and percentage of households reporting income from work on
other farms by race of operator and by farm work income class, 167 rural house-
 holds, North and West Florida, 1956


 : : Family race
 Farm work : All ____
 income class : households 1 3
 (dollars) I White : Nonwhite


 i Number Percent Number Percent Number Percent

 1- 249 t 84 50.3 39 53.4 45 47.9
 250- 499 26 15.5 14 19.2 12 12.8
 500- 749 10 6.0 5 6.8 5 5.3
 750- 999 : 10 6.0 2 2.7 8 8.5
 1,000-1,499 t 16 9.6 3 4.1 13 13.8
 1,500-1,999 10 6.0 3 4.1 ? 7.4
 2,000-2,999 8 4.8 4 5.5 4 4.3
 3,000-3,999 t 1 .6 1 1.4 ..
 4,000-4,999 a 1 .6 1 1.4 ..
 5,000-7,499 1 .6 1 1.4 ,,
 7,500-9,999 a .. .. .,
 10,000 and over : .. .. .. ** a

 Total : 167 100.0 73 100.0 94 100,0


 The proportion of families reporting income from work on other farms

was greater among the larger than among the smaller families. Approximately

18 percent of the families with less than six members reported this income

source compared with 41 percent of the families having six or more members.

 While less than 8 percent of the one-member households reported farm

work income in excess of $1,000 compared with 86 percent of the households in

the largest size group (Table 71), there was no consistent positive association

between family size and family earnings from farmwork. There was less than

proportional representation of 1, 2, 4, 5, and 8-10 member families among those

households earning $1,000 or more from work on other farms. Among the lower