Dairy and the US Congress
Collection Overview
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...
Show moreThis 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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- Dairy - "Well Pits", 1964
- Date Created
- 1964
- Description
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Topics include 10th anniversary of milk program “to increase the consumption of fluid milk by children in nonprofit schools of high school age and under”; text of Aiken editorial in the Rutland Daily Herald, “Changing Agriculture”; Vermont Department of Agriculture Director Carr’s comments to the...
Show moreTopics include 10th anniversary of milk program “to increase the consumption of fluid milk by children in nonprofit schools of high school age and under”; text of Aiken editorial in the Rutland Daily Herald, “Changing Agriculture”; Vermont Department of Agriculture Director Carr’s comments to the United States Department of Health on the proposed USPHS Milk Ordinance and Code, particularly those relating to water supplies; proposed elimination of all well pits.
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- Dairy - Consolidation of New England Milk Marketing Orders (library), 1964
- Date Created
- 1964
- Description
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Topics include proposal to merge the five milk marketing order areas in New England; creation in Vermont by Governor Phil Hoff of a Rural Stabilization and Adjustment Committee; letter from Governor Hoff to Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman, urging him to consolidate the New England milk...
Show moreTopics include proposal to merge the five milk marketing order areas in New England; creation in Vermont by Governor Phil Hoff of a Rural Stabilization and Adjustment Committee; letter from Governor Hoff to Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman, urging him to consolidate the New England milk marketing order areas; USDA press release announcing consolidation.
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- Dairy - Miscellaneous, 1964
- Date Created
- 1964
- Description
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Topics include cost of dairy production; farm employment; Federal Milk Marketing Administration and producer-handler regulations; Class I base plans; cost of government programs relating to the dairy industry; development of beef as a by-product of dairying; 1964 Public Health Service Pasteurized...
Show moreTopics include cost of dairy production; farm employment; Federal Milk Marketing Administration and producer-handler regulations; Class I base plans; cost of government programs relating to the dairy industry; development of beef as a by-product of dairying; 1964 Public Health Service Pasteurized Milk Ordinance and Code; dairy proposals in the farm bill, particularly the dairy quotas provision; milk prices and surpluses; voluntary deductions from milk handlers for federal milk marketing efforts.
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- Dairy -- 2 cent per cwt. Deduction in Boston Milk Orders for Non-Members, 1960
- Date Created
- 1960
- Description
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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...
Show moreTopics 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.
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- Dairy -- Milk Sanitation Bill, 1960
- Date Created
- 1960
- Description
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Topics include S. 998, Milk Sanitation Bill proposed by Senators Hubert Humphrey and William Proxmire; response from W.J. Emery and Elmer Towne, from the Vermont Department of Agriculture, comparing Vermont and Federal milk codes; status report of the Public Health Service's expanded milk...
Show moreTopics include S. 998, Milk Sanitation Bill proposed by Senators Hubert Humphrey and William Proxmire; response from W.J. Emery and Elmer Towne, from the Vermont Department of Agriculture, comparing Vermont and Federal milk codes; status report of the Public Health Service's expanded milk surveillance program.
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- Dairy -- Miscellaneous, 1963
- Date Created
- 1963
- Description
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Topics include packaged sterilized cream and government price-support and food-for-peace programs; dairy imports and exports; United States Department of Labor investigation into Dairy Herd Improvement Association employment practices in Vermont.
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- Dairy -- Proxmire Bill-McWilliams Talk, 1964
- Date Created
- 1964
- Title
- Dairy -- United States Department of Agriculture Amendments, 1960
- Date Created
- 1960
- Description
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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.
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- Dairy Bill Hearing, February 27, 1962
- Date Created
- 1962
- Description
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Topics include copy of remarks of President Kennedy to the National Conference on Milk and Nutrition underlined by Charles Weaver; Aiken's notes on Senate Agriculture Committee hearing; testimony of Clement Baker, Shelburne dairy farmer; testimony of Harry Varney, Jr., Charlotte dairy farmer;...
Show moreTopics include copy of remarks of President Kennedy to the National Conference on Milk and Nutrition underlined by Charles Weaver; Aiken's notes on Senate Agriculture Committee hearing; testimony of Clement Baker, Shelburne dairy farmer; testimony of Harry Varney, Jr., Charlotte dairy farmer; testimony of John C. York, Executive Secretary of Eastern Milk Producers Cooperative Association, Inc.; Letter from Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman to Senator Allen Ellender, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, outlining a one-year emergency dairy program to substitute for the diary provisions of the Administration farm bill; Senator Hubert Humphrey's (MN) proposed dairy stabilization act.
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- Dairy price supports - correspondence, 1958
- Date Created
- 1958
- Description
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Topics include Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson's proposal to reduce dairy price supports; Aiken's response to Benson's proposal; proposed legislation from Senator Hubert Humphrey (MN).
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- Dairy Price Supports -- Correspondence, 1958
- Date Created
- 1958
- Description
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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.
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- Dairy, 1953
- Date Created
- 1953
- Description
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Topics include cost of feed; door-to-door delivery of milk and automatic dispensers; price support for dairy; decline in livestock values; surplus butter and the armed services; dairy industry advisory committee called by Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson; oleomargarine; large purchases of...
Show moreTopics include cost of feed; door-to-door delivery of milk and automatic dispensers; price support for dairy; decline in livestock values; surplus butter and the armed services; dairy industry advisory committee called by Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson; oleomargarine; large purchases of butter by the Commodity Credit Corporation; President Dwight Eisenhower; Milk Producers Federation banquet; two-price system; price of Class I milk; low fat content butter; shipment of unregulated milk into the New York-New Jersey marketing area; milk surplus.
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- Dairy: Correspondence and Dairymen's League vs. Teamsters, 1959
- Date Created
- 1959
- Description
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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...
Show moreTopics 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.
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- Dairy: General Correspondence, 1962
- Date Created
- 1962
- Description
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Topics include Senator Aiken's correspondence to constituents on small dairy farms; processing tax on feed grain; dairy farm surpluses; milk dating; marketing quotas; roller dried skim milk powder; proposal to collect milk promotion funds through federal milk market orders; bulk tanks; Milk...
Show moreTopics include Senator Aiken's correspondence to constituents on small dairy farms; processing tax on feed grain; dairy farm surpluses; milk dating; marketing quotas; roller dried skim milk powder; proposal to collect milk promotion funds through federal milk market orders; bulk tanks; Milk Marketing Program; improving milk quality and production methods.
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- Dairy: H.R.12138 Lehigh Valley Case; Amendments to NY NJ Milk order; Jesse Stalker Case,1962
- Date Created
- 1962
- Description
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Topics include Lehigh Valley Coop. v. United States, Supreme Court case; H.R. 12138, a bill to amend the Agriculture Marketing Act of 1937 to permit certain payments under milk marketing orders; amendments to New York-New Jersey milk order; Jessee Stalker case, a New York producer-handler
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- Dairy: Misc. (Library), 1957-1958
- Date Created
- 1957-1958
- Description
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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...
Show moreTopics 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.
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- Title
- Milk, 1952
- Date Created
- 1952
- Description
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Topics include rising cost of dairy production and high cost of feed; Office of Price Stabilization and Supplemental Regulation 63; price control of dairy products; letter from Secretary of State Dean Acheson to Senator Burnet Maybank (SC) in regards to the Defense Production Act; statement of...
Show moreTopics include rising cost of dairy production and high cost of feed; Office of Price Stabilization and Supplemental Regulation 63; price control of dairy products; letter from Secretary of State Dean Acheson to Senator Burnet Maybank (SC) in regards to the Defense Production Act; statement of George Paul before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee setting forth the views of the National Creameries Association in regards to the Defense Production Act; Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan; pricing of class 1-C milk in New Jersey and Senate Committee hearings; appropriations for the Dairy Herd Improvement Association Division of the Bureau of Dairy Industry.
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- Milk: Correspondence H.R. 2119, S. 762, 1949
- Date Created
- 1892-1984
- Description
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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;...
Show moreTopics 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.
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- Oleomargarine Bill: Correspondence, 1948
- Date Created
- 1948
- Description
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Topics include oleomargarine regulation; oleomargarine tax; oleomargarine use in hotels and restaurants disguised as butter; oleomargarine coloring; oleomargarine production and the cost of butter; oleomargarine advertisements in Life magazine.