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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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