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Item Description

Title

Dairy, 1953

Creator

Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.

Contributors

Simpson, W. Arthur

Young, Milton Ruben, 1897-1983.

Published: October 17, 2006,  University of Vermont, Bailey/Howe Library, Special Collections

Description

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 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.

Source Document

George D. Aiken Papers, Crate 7, Carton 3A, Folder 32

Date of Source Document

1953

Digital Format: image/tiff : Text/Grayscale: 8 bits; 300 ppi, Microtek ScanMaker 9800XL.

Subjects/People

• Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
• Benson, Ezra Taft
• Commodity Credit Corporation
• Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969
• National Cooperative Milk Producers' Federation
• Simpson, W. Arthur
• Young, Milton Ruben, 1897-1983.

Subjects/Topics

• Agricultural price supports -- United States
• Animal industry -- Law and legislation
• Butter trade
• Dairy cattle -- Feeding and feeds
• Livestock -- Marketing
• Marketing -- Law and legislation -- United States
• Milk -- Prices
• Milk trade -- New Jersey
• Milk trade -- New York (State)
• Surplus agricultural commodities

Time period: 1953

Format: text

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