Show find many farmers earn income by outside labor washington about a third of the farmers of the united states have outside industrial and business income it is indicated in in a survey just released by the census bureau As a result of a study of farms in selected counties in 40 states stales according to william L austin director of the census many new and surprising facts along this line have been discovered among those which have hitherto not been called to the attention of the public he said are the high proportion of farmers who have outside income the relatively high average return for such farm operators equal to about three fourths of the average income from the farms themselves and the difference between the incomes of those making farming their principle occupation and those whose principal occupation is banking keeping store professional fess ional service and the like for the farmers out of the in the sample survey who reported non farm income mr austin continued a total of such income of was reported or an average ot of per farm about one fourth of such farmers were found to receive less than a year of such non farm income |