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households reported less than $500 and 30 percent over $5,000.

 Farm households.-The proportion of nonwhite families was substan-

tially lower among farm households than among the nonfarm units. Nonwhite

families constituted 23 percent of farm households compared with 41 percent of

nonfarm households. The tenure status of white and nonwhite farm operators by

major farm economic groups is shown in Table 40. While the majority of both

white and nonwhite farm operators were either full owners or part owners,

tenancy was considerably more prevalent among the nonwhite farmers. Full

tenancy was reported by 8 percent of the white and 22 percent of the nonwhite

operators. Among the commercial ferms, 27 percent of the nonwhite operators

reported full tenancy compared with less than 7 percent of the white operators.

 Approximately one-fifth *f the farm operators of both races rented

 land in addition to what they owned.. White operators renting additional land

 were mainly commercial farmers, whateas this practice followed by nonwhite

 operators was rather evenly distributed among residential, part-time, and

 commercial farmers. While 11 percent of the white operators rented out land,

 less than 3 percent of the nonwhite operators reported this practice. The

 majority of the white operators renting out land were residential and part-time

 farmers.

 Among the commercial farms ('- >le 41), full tenancy and also partial

 tenancy by renting in land were found most frequently in the middle economic

 classes with few cases among the very high-Iroducing and very low-producing

 farms.

 A total of 55,316 acres were operated by the 368 farm households

 (Table 42). Almost 47 percent of ell land was cropland, with 35 percent in

 crops and 12 percent idle cropland. Approximetely 13 percent of all land was

 in permanent pasture. The remaining 40 percent was in woodland. The nonwhite