Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 15 · column 2 of 5 · from the scan, no model involved
minorities declined by about one fourth, while the white farm population remained about the same. In April 1973, there were about 684,000- persons of the black and other races still on farms, compared with an estimated 938,000 in 1970. For whites, the farm population total was an estimated 8.8 million in both 1973 and 1970.
THE FARM population continues to grow older. During 1960-73, the share of the farm population 65 years old and over rose from 8 to 12 percent. At the same time, the share of farm children who were 14 and under declined from 32 to 23 percent, due in part to the Nation’s declining birth rate.
Males outnumbered females living on farms by about 352,000 in 1973. The sex ratio in the farm population was 108 males to each 100 females as compared with 92 males to each 100 females in the nonfarm civilian population.
The unemployment rate was low among farm residents. In 1973, only 1.9 percent of the labor force living
94.6%