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Item Description

Title

Dairy Products (Library): Correspondence, 1956

Creator

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

Contributors

Weaver, Charles

Marsh, Henry N.

Published: November 14, 2006,  University of Vermont, Bailey/Howe Library, Special Collections

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

Aiken Papers, Crate 8, Carton 1, Folder 32

Date of Source Document

1956

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

Geographic Coverage

Vermont

Subjects/People

• Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
• Dairy Farmers of America
• Marsh, Henry N.
• United States. Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act
• Weaver, Charles

Subjects/Topics

• Agricultural price supports -- United States
• Agriculture -- Taxation -- Law and legislation
• Brucellosis vaccines -- Law and legislation -- United States
• Cooperative marketing of farm produce
• Dairy processing -- Vermont
• Farm produce -- Marketing
• Farmers -- Economic conditions
• Farmers -- Taxation -- Law and legislation
• Flood control -- Law and legislation -- United States
• Milk -- Prices -- New England
• Milk -- Prices -- United States
• Milk trade -- United States
• Milk yield -- Law and legislation -- New England
• School milk programs
• Water -- Law and legislation -- United States

Time period: 1956

Format: text

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