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Item Description

Title

Dairy: Misc. (Library), 1957-1958

Creator

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

Contributors

Graves, Paul D.

Towne, Elmer

Cooper, John Sherman, 1901-

Morse, True D.

Published: November 16, 2006,  University of Vermont, Bailey/Howe Library, Special Collections

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.

Source Document

Aiken Papers, Crate 8, Carton 1A, Folder 9

Date of Source Document

1957-1958

Digital Format: image/tiff : Text/Color: 24 bits; 300 ppi, Microtek ScanMaker 9800XL.

Subjects/People

• Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
• Cooper, John Sherman, 1901-
• Graves, Paul D.
• Morse, True D.
• Towne, Elmer

Subjects/Topics

• Dairy products -- Cooperative marketing
• Dairying -- Economic aspects
• Marketing orders -- New England
• Milk -- Prices
• Milk trade -- New England
• Strikes and lockouts -- United States

Time period: 1957-1958

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