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increase in proportions reporting higher incomes as the number of able-bodied

males increased from 1 to 3 members.

 As for those families having no able-bodied males, relatively few

families with no able-bodied females reported income from work on other farms.

Considerably larger proportions of households with one or more able-bodied

females reported this source of income, although the proportions did not

increase directly with the number of females present as was the case when

distribution was made on the number of able-bodied males.

 The concentration of households having no able-bodied females in the

lower farmwork income classes was not as marked as in the case of households

having no able-bodied males. Among those households having one or more able-

bodied females, as the number of able-bodied females increased, proportions of

households in the two lowest farmwork income classes decreased and proportions

reporting incomes in excess of $1,000 increased. This was not the case, as

mentioned above, when distribution was made on the basis of able-bodied males.

 The distribution of households by farwaork income classes and family

type is shown in Table 72. Less than 14 percent of the Type 7 households (no

employable male present) reported income from work on other farms compared with

25 percent of the Type 1 (male head "fully employable") and Type 2 (male head

"employable") families.

 Among the Type 1 families reporting farm wage income 36 percent

earned less than $250 compared with 48 percent of the Type 2 families and 78

percent of the Type 7 families. Conversely, the percentages in farm work

income classes above $1,000 wnre 36, 20, and 6 for Type 1, 2, and 7 families

respectively. Again this was the same general pattern as found under farm

income and total family income.

 There was no apparent relatic ship between family earnings from farm