704 GENERAL FARM PROGRAM 



Mr. Sullivan. At the same time I would like to have come and 

 sit with me the other witness on this program, Mr. Henry Parkinson, 

 of Scott City. 



Mr. Pace. Mr. Parkinson, will you come around; we are glad to 

 have you with us. 



Mr. White. May we ask Mr. Sullivan to please give us his full 

 name and the capacity in which he appears? 



Mr. Sullivan. Just a moment; I am going to do that. My name 

 is Ward Sullivan. I live on a farm 12 miles from Hays, Kans., Ellis 

 County. Ellis County is located on the eastern edge near the center 

 of what I call the high plains region, extending from the northern part 

 of Texas, up through Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Wyoming, and 

 Colorado. 



I live on a farm with my family, wife and two sons; we have a 

 family sized farm. 



JVIr. Hope. Since you represent the Western Kansas Development 

 Association I think perhaps it would be helpful to the committee if 

 you would in a sentence or two tell us something about that organiza- 

 tion. 



Mr. Sullivan. Yes, I shall. We are raising wheat and cattle in 

 western Kansas: Those are the two main crops. We do raise some 

 milo maize for roughage, for cattle and grain, but there is no other 

 cash crop. There is only one cash crop in this entire plains area, 

 and that is wheat. 



I want to say that the high plains area is producing almost half of 

 the total production of wheat in the United States, and the Kansas 

 area alone which I represent produces practically one-fourth of the 

 total wheat produced in the United States. 



Mr. Pace. May I interrupt you to ask if the area which you 

 represent is the same area that was represented here by the witness 

 who just preceded you? 



Mr. Sullivan. It is not. 



Mr. Pace. He said he represented 60 percent of the wheat, and 

 you say you represent 50 percent of the production. 



Mr. Sullivan. No; I did not say I represented 50 percent; I 

 represent approximately one-fourth. 



Mr. White. Let me see if I understand the situation: I understood 

 you to say that you lived in eastern Kansas, and I understood Mr. 

 Hope to say that you represent the Western Kansas Development 

 Association. Am I wrong? 



Mr. Sullivan. You are quite wrong. I said that I live at Hays, 

 in the center, or near the eastern edge of the high plains area, and that 

 is not in the eastern part of the State; it is in western Kansas. And 

 here I represent the Western Kansas Development Association which 

 comprises some 46 counties of western Kansas. There are 105 

 counties in Kansas, and in that area we produce most of the wheat 

 of Kansas — approximately 250,000,000 bushels of wheat, approxi- 

 mately one-fourth of the total annual wheat production. 



I referred to the high plains area in the other States, because the 

 whole high plains area is very similar. - Their problems are veiy 

 similar to those we have in Kansas, and therefore the problems which 

 will be met by a program that will work out for our wheat, that will 

 satisfy the situation in Kansas ought to satisfy the whole area. 



