668 GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 



Mr. KuPER. Well I summer fallow some, but not a great deal. 

 Some of the boys summer fallow a great deal more than I. 



Mr. Hope. What percentage of the wheat acreage down there is 

 summer fallowed? 



Mr. KuPER. You mean as to the county as a whole? 



Mr. Hope. Yes; take your county. 



Mr. KuPER. I would say about 50 percent. 



Mr. Hope. Here is a question that is going to come up, and it is 

 going to be a difficult one, I think, and that is in the assignment of 

 acreage in the counties: How do you consider the farms where they 

 have made it a practice to summer fallow, compare with the ones 

 where they have farmed continuous crops? Have yoa any suggestion 

 on that? 



Mr. KuPER. Well, T do not think there is hardly any way to get at 

 it — and I do not think we should have too many details, because I 

 think we ought to keep this thing just as simple as possible, because if 

 we are going to make it too detailed, we are going to have so many 

 complications we will never get it to work. What we want to do is to 

 prevent getting too much surplus, and we are going to have to try to 

 strike a happy medium and try it that way. 



Mr. Hope. Well, are you not going to fmd this situation in my 

 section and other sections in the Great Plains areas, where you will 

 see one farmer has perhaps two sections, one where he summer fallows 

 and one where he does not? 



Mr. Kuper. Yes. 



Mr. Hope. And his neighbor may have two sections where he grows 

 wheat, and when you come to give those two men a base, would you 

 give one fellow 640 acres and the other fellow 1,280 or what would 

 you do? 



Mr. Kuper. My idea would be that you would just have to cut. 



Mr. Hope. To cut what? 



Mr. Kuper. You would just have to cut down somewhere, and I 

 do not know just exactly how. 



Mr. Hope. You believe that can be done in your own district, 

 under the existing practice? 



Mr. Kuper. Yes. 



Mr. Poage. As I recall the wheat law, you would give the same 

 percentage on wheat land that everybody else gets, and that is fixed 

 in the law. 



Mr. CooLEY. You are suggesting a 10-year period, starting with the 

 prior 5 years and the last 5 years' 



Mr. Kuper. That is right, for each farm, using his past operations. 



Mr. CooLEY. Having two 5-year periods? 



Mr. Kuper. Yes. 



Mr. CooLEY. And each one of them would be given the same weight, 

 each 5-year period? 



Mr. Kuper. Yes. 



Mr. CooLEY. In that way you would give some fellow less land and 

 some fellow more? 



Mr. Kuper. Yes. 



Mr. Cooley. But by so doing you intend to give an equitable 

 allotment of the acreage? 



Mr. Kuper. Yes. 



