Dairy Products (Library): Correspondence, 1956

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Title: Dairy Products (Library): Correspondence, 1956
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
Contributor: Weaver, Charles.
Marsh, Henry N.
Subject: Farmers -- Taxation -- Law and legislation.
Farmers -- Economic conditions.
School milk programs.
Agricultural price supports -- United States.
Flood control -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Agriculture -- Taxation -- Law and legislation.
Water -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Dairy processing -- Vermont.
Cooperative marketing of farm produce.
Brucellosis vaccines -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Farm produce -- Marketing.
Milk yield -- Law and legislation -- New England.
Milk -- Prices -- New England.
Dairy Farmers of America.
United States Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act.
Milk -- Prices -- United States.
Milk trade -- United States.
Format: text
Extent: 26 pages
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.
Source Document Location: University of Vermont Libraries. Special Collections.
Shelf Location: Aiken Papers, Crate 8, Carton 1, Folder 32
Note [Digital Version]: 2006-11-14, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries
Digital Format: image/tiff : Text/Grayscale: 8 bits; 400 ppi, Microtek ScanMaker 9800XL.
Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress
Date Created: 1956
Access Conditions: No known copyright restrictions.

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