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significantly higher proportions of individuals below 20 and over 50 years of

age working on the home farm. Between the ages of 20 and 50, greater propor-

tions reported nonfarm employment. Larger numbers of females reported nonfarm

jobs from the standpoint of the total female population as well as the age

groups between 20 and 50 years of age.

 Previous tables concerning proportions of the population engaged in

the three types of employment considered individuals working on the home farm

as a proportion of the total population 14 years of age and older. In Table 24,

individuals reporting work on the home farm are shown as a proportion of the

farm population 14 years and older. There were 1,063 individuals 14 years of

age and older in the farm population, with the 543 reporting work on the home

farm constituting 51 percent. Approximately 76 percent of the male population

reported work compared with 26 percent of the females. Proportions of the male

population reporting work ranged from 57 percent in the age groups below 20

years to approximately 93 percent in the age group 60 to 64 years. The largest

proportion of females reporting work (36 percent) was the age group 20 to 24

years.

 Table 25 shows the distribution of individuals reporting work on the

home farm by months worked. Of the 543 individuals, 263 (48 percent) reported

full-time work, one-third reported from 1 to 3 months work,and 19 percent

reported from 4 to 10 months work. Up to the age of 35, less than 7 percent of

the individuals reported full-time employment on the home farm. Above the age

of 35, almost 63 percent of the individuals reporting work were employed full

time.

 The average length of employment on the home farm was 7.7 months for

the 543 reporting individuals (Table 26). Members of white farm households

averaged 8.1 months compared with 6.7 months for members of nonwhite households,