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TABLE 75.--Number and percentage distribution of individuals 14 years of age
and older reporting income from work on other farms, by farm work income class
 and race, 167 rural households, North and West Florida, 1956

 t
 Race
 Farm work All ____
 income class : individuals 3
 (dollars) White Nonwhite


 i Number Percent Number Percent Number Percent

 1- 249 : 182 67.1 62 64.0 120 690o
 250- 499 36 13.3 15 15.5 21 12,1
 500- 749 : 14 5.2 4 4.1 10 5.7
 750- 999 6 2.2 4 4.1 2 1.2
 1,000-1,499 : 19 7.0 4 4.1 15 8.6
 1,500-1,999 5 1.8 2 2.1 3 1.7
 2,000-2,999 6 2.2 3 3.1 3 1.7
 3,000-3,999 1 ,4 1 1.0 .. ..
 4,000-4,999 1 .4 1 1.0
 5,000-7,499 g 1 .4 1 1.0
 7,500-9,999 .. .. ..
 10,000 and over .. .. .. .. ..

 Total : 271 100,0 97 100.0 174 100.0



of more than $1,500 while less than 4 percent of the nonwhite individuals

reported incomes above this level. Average income from farm wage work was

$470 for white individuals and $325 for nonwhite individuals.

 As mentioned in Part II, a substantial number of the individuals

reporting farm wage work were in the younger age groups. More than one-fou'tn

of the individuals who reported income from this source were under 20 years of

age and more than three-fifths were under 35 (Table 76). Earnings from this

source were generally low for individuals below 20 and over about 45. Somo two-

thirds of the individuals who earned $1,000 or more were in the age groups 30

through 49 years.

 As would be expected from the number of younger persons reporting

income from farm wage work, nearly 23 percent of those reporting were still in