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 Income from work on other farms.-Farm wage income amounted to

$102,193 and constituted less than 6 percent of the total income reported by

the 730 survey households. Lees than a fourth of the sample families reported

farm wage income, however, and these families averaged $600 per year from this

source. Nonfarm families averaged $862 compared with $313 for farm families.

Among farm families, farm wage income was considerably more important to part-

time farm families($541) than to residential ($274) or commercial ($178) farm

families. Nonwhite families earned 55 percent of the farm wage income and

averaged $602, White families constituted 44 percent of reporting households,

earned 45 percent of the total farm wage income, and averaged $625.

 Relative to the number of families reporting income from farm wage

work, both white and nonwhite families occurred most frequently in the farm

work income class $1 to $250 (Table 69). A comparison of the percentage dis-

tribution of instances by race and farm wage income classes indicates higher

proportions of white families earning below $750 and above $2,000. Relatively

cases in income classes from $750 to $1,999 were substantially more important

among the nonwhite households.

 The majority of families reporting income from work on other farms

were headed by persons from 40 to 60 years of age (Table 70). Generally speak-

ing, as the age of the family head increased, family income from farm wage work

decreased. Among the households whose family heads were under 50 years of age,

61 percent reported incomes of less than $500, compared with 72 percent of the

households whose family heads were over 50 years of age. Of those families

reporting farm wage income in excess of $1,000, 70 percent were headed by per-

sons less than 50 years of age. Further, when total farm wage income was

distributed among households on the basis of family head age groups, households

in each family head age group below 50 years of age reported larger than