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 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.
Time Period Covered: 1941-1975
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Published: November 07, 2006, University of Vermont, Bailey/Howe Library, Special Collections
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Contributor(s)
- Weaver, Charles [8]
- Towne, Elmer [3]
- United States. Dept. of Agriculture [3]
- Aplin, Richard D. (Richard David) [2]
- Freeman, Orville L. [2]
- Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 [2]
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 [2]
- Baker, Clement [1]
- Barrett, Frank A. [1]
- Casso, Henry J. [1]
- Emery, W.J. [1]
- Flemming, Arthur S. (Arthur Sherwood), 1905-1996 [1]
- Harvey, John L. [1]
- Heemstra, L.C. [1]
- Hejl, J.M. [1]
- Javits, Jacob K. (Jacob Koppel), 1904-1986 [1]
- Johnson, Lester Roland [1]
- Keating, Kenneth B. (Kenneth Barnard), 1900-1975 [1]
- Leamy, W.P. [1]
- Lewis, Robert G. [1]
- Marsh, Henry N. [1]
- McCaughey, Robert L. [1]
- McIntire, Clifford G. (Clifford Guy), 1908-1974 [1]
- Morse, True D. [1]
- National Milk Producers Federation [1]
- Peterson, E.L. [1]
- Proxmire, William [1]
- Ralph, James T [1]
- Simpson, W. Arthur [1]
- Stanton, Harker T. [1]
- Studer, S.N. [1]
- Terrill, James G., Jr. [1]
- Varney, Harry [1]
Topic(s)
- Agricultural price supports -- United States [5]
- Milk -- Prices -- United States [5]
- Dairy laws -- United States [4]
- Milk trade -- United States [4]
- Farm production quotas [3]
- Brucellosis vaccines -- Law and legislation -- United States [1]
- Cooperative marketing of farm produce [1]
- Dairy Farmers of America [1]
- Dairy processing -- Vermont [1]
- Dairy products [1]
- Dairy products -- Prices [1]
- Dairying -- Government Policy -- United States [1]
- Farm produce -- Marketing [1]
- Farmers -- Economic conditions [1]
- Farmers -- Taxation -- Law and legislation [1]
- Flood control -- Law and legislation -- United States [1]
- Mastitis [1]
- Milk -- Government policy [1]
- Milk -- Grading -- United States [1]
- Milk -- Prices -- New England [1]
- Milk -- Prices -- Vermont [1]
- Milk trade -- Law and legislation -- United States [1]
- Milk trade -- Marketing -- Law and legislation -- United States [1]
- Milk yield -- Law and legislation -- New England [1]
- Pesticide residues in food [1]
- School milk programs [1]
- School milk programs -- United States [1]
- Surplus agricultural commodities [1]
- United States. Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act [1]
- Water -- Law and legislation -- United States [1]
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Contributor: ("Weaver, Charles")
Title: Dairy -- H.R. 12030 Correspondence, 1960
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
Date: 1960
Resource type: text
Topics include statement of the National Milk Producers Federation before the House Ways and Means Committee at a cooperative tax hearing; text of House bill 12030 for an appropriation for the special milk program for children; quotas on imported cheeses; analysis of quota plans to restrict farm marketing of milk and cream; milk prices; S. 3897, a bill to amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act to provide for judicial review of orders of the Secretary of Agriculture.
Title: Dairy -- Milk Sanitation Bill, 1960
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
Date: 1960
Resource type: text
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 surveillance program.
Title: Dairy -- Milk Sanitation Bill, Whiting Company, Correspondence, Hearings, 1961
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
Date: 1961
Resource type: text
Topics include background of the Northeast Dairy Bloc; milk quotas; feed supplies; milk prices; address by Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman at a White House Regional Conference in Madison, WI; H.R. 50, National Milk Sanitation Act; request of six Vermont cooperatives for a partial suspension of the Class II price formula; failure of the Whiting Milk Company.
Title: Dairy Bill Hearing, February 27, 1962
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
Date: 1962
Resource type: text
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; 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.
Title: Dairy Products (Library): Correspondence, 1956
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
Date: 1956
Resource type: text
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.
Title: Dairy price supports - Keith Wallace Letter, 1958
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
Date: 1958
Resource type: text
Topics include Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson's proposal to reduce dairy price supports; Aiken's response to Benson's proposal; Aiken's response to President Eisenhower's agricultural message to the Congress; letter from Aiken to Keith Wallace, President of the Vermont State Farm Bureau on milk prices; questionnaire sent by Aiken to Vermont farmers and farm organizations; bill proposed by Representative Thomas Abernethy (MS); milk production.
Title: Dairy: Correspondence and Dairymen's League vs. Teamsters, 1959
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
Date: 1959
Resource type: text
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 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.
Title: Dairy: General Correspondence, 1962
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
Date: 1962
Resource type: text
Topics include USDA study on probable effects on prices and consumption of quota plans to restrict farm marketings of milk and cream; remarks of President Kennedy to the National Conference on Milk and Nutrition; milk and grain surplus figures; press release from Senator Proxmire (WI) on milk price supports; memo from Charlie Weaver to Aiken about a plan proposed by Bill Welden of Hood to fight proposed quota legislation.
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