Seventy-seven percent of the 120 farms in Comanche County, Kansas, are returning an annual cash income that is above the average for the nation's farmers. The rating of Comanche county in the cash farm income picture is revealed in a study announced today by the research department of Capper's Farmer from figures of the U. S. Census of Agriculture.

Only 260 of the 3,072 counties in the United States are so well off as Comanche. In each of these 260 counties, 70 percent or more of the farms had an income that was above the national farm average.

By comparison there are 1,662 counties to which less than 30 percent of the farms being in an income as good as the national average. In 1947 the U. S. average income per farm was $5,150. The research workers of the farm magazine rated each county on the basis of the proportion of its farms that have an income above the national average. Income was the value of farm products sold or used by the farm household. They tabulated figured on 5,859,169 farms in the United States that had a total cash income of $30,174,744,000 last year.

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