Dairy and the US Congress

This collection documents legislative issues relating to dairy such as milk pricing, subsidies, and oleomargarine. Vermont's congressional delegation has a long and active history in matters relating to Vermont's dairy farmers and the dairy industry. George Aiken, Elbert Brigham, James Jeffords, and Patrick Leahy all served on Agriculture committees and their collections document many of the agricultural issues that faced Congress in the 20th Century.

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17 Milk -- Prices -- United States. 14 Agricultural price supports -- United States. 11 Milk trade -- United States. 7 Dairy laws -- United States. 7 Margarine -- Law and legislation -- United States. 7 Margarine -- Taxation -- United States. 7 Surplus agricultural commodities. 5 Milk hygiene -- Standards -- Law and legislation -- United States. 5 Milk trade -- Marketing -- Law and legislation -- United States. 4 Farm production quotas. 4 Milk trade -- New York (State). 3 Agricultural subsidies -- United States. 3 Butter trade. 3 Dairy cattle -- Feeding and feeds. 3 Dairy products -- Cooperative marketing. 3 Dairy products. 3 Dairying -- Economic aspects. 3 Milk -- Prices -- New York (State). 3 Milk -- Prices. 3 Milk trade -- New England. 3 National Cooperative Milk Producers' Federation. 3 Price regulation -- United States. 2 Agricultural prices -- Government policy -- United States. 2 Brucellosis in cattle. 2 Commodity Credit Corporation. 2 Dairy processing. 2 Dairy products -- Law and legislation -- United States. 2 Droughts -- Economic aspects -- United States. 2 Eisenhower -- Dwight D. (Dwight David) -- 1890-1969. 2 Margarine industry -- United States. 2 Milk -- Cooperative marketing -- New England. 2 Milk -- Grading -- United States. 2 Milk -- Prices -- Massachusetts -- Boston. 2 Milk -- Prices -- New England. 2 Milk -- Standards -- Law and legislation -- United States. 2 Milk consumption. 2 Milk supply -- Government policy -- United States. 2 Milk trade -- Fat content -- United States. 2 Milk trade -- Massachusetts -- Boston. 2 Milk trade. 2 Milk yield -- Law and legislation -- New England. 2 United States Congress House Committee on Agriculture. 2 United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. 1 Abernethy Thomas Perkins 1890-. 1 Agricultural laws and legislation -- United States. 1 Agricultural societes -- United States. 1 Agriculture -- Taxation -- Law and legislation. 1 Agriculture, Cooperative -- United States. 1 Aiken -- George D. (George David) -- 1892-1984. 1 Animal industry -- Law and legislation. 1 Aplin Richard D. (Richard David). 1 Austin Warren R. (Warren Robinson) 1877-1962. 1 Benson -- Ezra Taft. 1 Brannan -- Charles F. (Charles Franklin) -- 1903-. 1 Brucellosis vaccines -- Law and legislation -- United States. 1 Butter -- Prices. 1 Cheese industry -- United States. 1 Coloring matter in food -- Law and legislation -- United States. 1 Cooperative marketing of farm produce. 1 Cream industry -- Costs. 1 Dairy Farmers of America. 1 Dairy cattle -- United States. 1 Dairy farming -- United States. 1 Dairy farms. 1 Dairy laws -- New England. 1 Dairy processing -- Vermont -- Brattleboro. 1 Dairy processing -- Vermont. 1 Dairy product industry -- Costs -- United States. 1 Dairy products -- Prices -- Law and legislation. 1 Dairy products -- Prices -- Subsidies. 1 Dairy products -- Prices. 1 Dairy products industry -- Economic aspects. 1 Dairying -- Government Policy -- United States. 1 Dairying -- New England. 1 Dairying, Cooperative -- United States. 1 Dairying, Cooperative. 1 Dairying. 1 Dried milk industry. 1 Farm produce -- Marketing. 1 Farm produce. 1 Farmers -- Economic conditions. 1 Farmers -- Taxation -- Law and legislation. 1 Farms, Small -- United States. 1 Flood control -- Law and legislation -- United States. 1 Food relief, American. 1 Foreign trade regulation -- United States. 1 Grain as feed. 1 Humphrey Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio) 1911-1978. 1 Ice cream, ices, etc. -- Law and legislation. 1 Labels -- Law and legislation -- United States. 1 Livestock -- Marketing. 1 Maple syrup. 1 Margarine -- Law and legislation -- Arkansas. 1 Margarine -- Marketing -- Law and legislation -- United States. 1 Marketing -- Law and legislation -- United States. 1 Marketing orders -- New England. 1 Mastitis. 1 Maybank -- Burnet R. (Burnet Rhett) -- 1899-1954. 1 Milk -- Cooperative marketing. 1 Milk -- Government Policy. 1 Milk -- Law and legislation -- United States. 1 Milk -- Marketing. 1 Milk -- Prices -- Law and legislation -- New England. 1 Milk -- Prices -- Massachusetts. 1 Milk -- Prices -- Rhode Island -- Providence. 1 Milk -- Prices -- Vermont. 1 Milk trade -- Canada. 1 Milk trade -- Law and legislation -- United States. 1 Milk trade -- New Jersey. 1 Milk trade -- Rhode Island -- Providence. 1 National Creameries' Association. 1 National Milk Producers Federation. 1 New England Dairy and Food Council. 1 Newport (Vt.). 1 Oils and fats, Edible -- Law and legislation -- United States. 1 Pesticide residues in food. 1 Price fixing -- United States. 1 Products liability -- Dairy products. 1 Roosevelt Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) 1882-1945. 1 School milk programs -- United States. 1 School milk programs. 1 Strikes and lockouts -- United States. 1 Taft -- Robert A. (Robert Alphonso) -- 1889-1953. 1 Tariff on dairy products. 1 Tariff on margarine -- Law and legislation -- United States. 1 Taxation. 1 Trade regulation -- United States. 1 United Farmers of New England. 1 United States -- Agricultural Marketing Administration. 1 United States -- Office of Price Administration. 1 United States -- War Food Administration. 1 United States Agricultural Adjustment Administration. 1 United States Agricultural Marketing Administration. 1 United States Bureau of Internal Revenue Service. 1 United States Congress Committee on Agriculture Subcommittee on Dairy Products. 1 United States Congress House Committee on Agriculture Subcommittee on Dairy Products. 1 United States Congress Senate Appropriations and expenditures. 1 United States Congress Senate Committee on Banking and Currency. 1 United States Congress Senate Committee on Finance. 1 United States Division of Dairy Herd Improvement Investigations. 1 United States Food and Drug Administration. 1 United States Office of Economic Stabilization -- Appropriations and expenditures. 1 United States Office of Economic Stabilization. 1 United States Office of Price Administration. 1 United States Office of Price Stabilization. 1 United States Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act. 1 Water -- Law and legislation -- United States. 1 Wiley Alexander 1884-1967.

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Miniature of Dairy price supports - Keith Wallace Letter, 1958
Dairy price supports - Keith Wallace Letter, 1958
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    • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
    • Date Created: 1958
    • Description: Topics include Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson's proposal to reduce dairy price supports; Aiken's response to Benson's proposal; Aiken's response to President Eisenhower's agricultural message to the Congress; letter from Aiken to Keith Wallace, President of the Vermont State Farm Bureau on milk prices; questionnaire sent by Aiken to Vermont farmers and farm organizations; bill proposed by Representative Thomas Abernethy (MS); milk production.
    • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress
    Miniature of Dairy: Correspondence, 1954
    Dairy: Correspondence, 1954
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      • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
      • Date Created: 1954
      • Description: Topics include proposal relating to the parity equivalent of manufacturing milk; disposal of powdered milk surplus in foreign countries; Richard Aplin, Milk Marketing Administrator for the Boston Area; price supports and government surpluses of dairy products; marketing quotas and reduced output of milk; fluid milk purchases; export of dairy products; herd culling program; proper use of diverted acres; price of grain used for dairy rations; milk rations for Armed Services; size of dairy farms and government support for small farms; Commodity Credit Corporation; Senate Committee on Agriculture hearings on dairy support price; decreasing demand for milk; role of Democratic party in creating current dairy industry problems; milk vending machines for office buildings and factories; strawberry milk; Brucellosis; sale of milk in two and four quart cartons; importation of hay and cattle from Canada; field dairy hearings; proposed dairy program; President Eisenhower's flexible price support program; Agricultural Agreement Act of 1937 and domestic trade barriers affecting milk and milk products; meeting of all farm organizations in Vermont interested in dairy to consider general policy questions.
      • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress
      Miniature of Dairy – Legislation – Correspondence, 1963
      Dairy – Legislation – Correspondence, 1963
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        • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
        • Date Created: 1963
        • Description: Topics include Class I milk marketing order proposals by Senator Proxmire (WI) and Senator McCarthy (MN), both of which were opposed by Senator Aiken; proposed changes to the Agricultural Adjustment Act by the USDA; milk prices; milk surpluses.
        • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress
        Miniature of Dairy Price Supports -- Correspondence, 1958
        Dairy Price Supports -- Correspondence, 1958
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          • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
          • Date Created: 1958
          • Description: Topics include correspondence with constituents about Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson's proposal to reduce dairy price supports and Aiken's response; Senate proposal to freeze all farm price supports at existing level.
          • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress
          Miniature of Dairy -- United States Department of Agriculture Amendments, 1960
          Dairy -- United States Department of Agriculture Amendments, 1960
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            • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
            • Date Created: 1960
            • Description: Topics include United States Department of Agriculture amendments to milk marketing orders in the Greater Boston, Connecticut, Southeastern New England, Springfield, and Worcester marketing areas.
            • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress
            Miniature of Milk: Correspondence H.R. 2119, S. 762, 1949
            Milk: Correspondence H.R. 2119, S. 762, 1949
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              • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
              • Date Created: 1949
              • Description: Topics include bills in House and Senate to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to announce the parity price of milk and announce or make effective the support price of milk; mandatory supports for dairy products; disposal of surplus dairy products; proposed suspension of Boston milk order; Vermont farm cooperatives; supply and demand provision of the New England milk formula; United Farmers of New England; proposed equalizing of prices in New York and New England milksheds; marketing of Class II New York milk in New England secondary markets.
              • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress
              Miniature of Dairy: Misc. (Library), 1957-1958
              Dairy: Misc. (Library), 1957-1958
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                • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984., Graves, Paul D., Towne, Elmer., Cooper, John Sherman, 1901-., Morse, True D.
                • Date Created: 1957-1958
                • Description: Topics include New England milk market and its different marketing orders; New York milk strike and New York milk market; responsibility of state governments in improving circumstances for dairy farmers; Federal Milk Order; effect of the New York milk strike on the Republican Party; Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson; differences in milk production around the country; consumption of dairy products; loans for milk tanks; opinions on dairy price supports by various Vermont farm constituencies as reported by Vermont Commissioner of Agriculture, Elmer Towne; Abernethy "Self-Help" bill; effects on Vermont farmers of a New England wide milk marketing order; proposal to extend the present export price assistance program to dry whole milk, and to evaporated milk; report on Eastern Milk Marketing Order; price war in the Boston market; growth of Hood Co.; Whiting Milk Company's economic difficulties and proposal to have operating cooperatives buy it; Southeastern New England milk order; milk production and pricing in Connecticut.
                • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress
                Miniature of Dairy: Correspondence and Dairymen's League vs. Teamsters, 1959
                Dairy: Correspondence and Dairymen's League vs. Teamsters, 1959
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                  • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
                  • Date Created: 1959
                  • Description: Topics include New England Milkshed Price Committee; letter from Elmer Towne, Vermont Commissioner of Agriculture, on a variety of dairy issues in Vermont; continuation of dairy support prices; National Conference on Interstate Shipments of Milk and a proposed national milk standards act; USDA General Counsel's opinion of proposed limitations on dairy price supports in the Department of Agriculture and Farm Credit Adminstration Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1960; "Swedish Treatment" for mastitis; pesticide and antibiotic residues in milk.
                  • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress
                  Miniature of Dairy Products (Library): Correspondence, 1956
                  Dairy Products (Library): Correspondence, 1956
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                    • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
                    • Date Created: 1956
                    • Description: Topics include importation of cows from Canada and over-production of milk; soil bank bill in Congress; Boston milk formula and the price of milk; milk promotion to middle aged women; price of grain; proposed forestry provisions to plant poorer land with trees in new farm bill in Congress; lack of incentive for big diary companies to increase the sale of fluid milk; minimum support prices under manufacturing milk; "Dairy Farmers of America"; Vermont dairy cooperatives; milk vending machine legislation in New York; congratulatory letter to Elmer Montgomery for receiving the Distinguished Farmer Award for 1955; request of New England cooperatives for a suspension of the 22 cent drop in milk; school milk and Brucellosis eradication programs; use of lime and superphosphate; tax benefits for farmers; Federal tax on gasoline used for agricultural purposes; St. Lawrence Seaway; farmer eligibility for Social Security benefits; marketing of farm products in foreign countries; Watershed Act of 1954; Water Facilities Act of 1954; farm production and marketing methods research; support price for feed grains; bulk tanks; proposals to expand New York marketing area to include major upstate cities and provide for regulation by federal order for northern New Jersey; Scoffield case and an injunction prohibiting the Secretary of Agriculture from extending the milk order; use of dairy products by the Armed Services.
                    • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress
                    Miniature of Dairy -- 2 cent per cwt. Deduction in Boston Milk Orders for Non-Members, 1960
                    Dairy -- 2 cent per cwt. Deduction in Boston Milk Orders for Non-Members, 1960
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                      • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
                      • Date Created: 1960
                      • Description: Topics include proposed amendment to the Boston Milk Order for a two cent per hundred-weight tax on all producers in the Boston pool who are not members of a qualified co-operative association; proposed tax to cover the cost of market information, verification of weights, sampling, and testing of milk; Aiken's responses to constituent letters in opposition to the proposed amendment.
                      • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress