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)
- Morse, True D. [2]
- Towne, Elmer [2]
- Barrett, Frank A. [1]
- Cooper, John Sherman, 1901- [1]
- Flemming, Arthur S. (Arthur Sherwood), 1905-1996 [1]
- Graves, Paul D. [1]
- Harvey, John L. [1]
- Heemstra, L.C. [1]
- Hejl, J.M. [1]
- Peterson, E.L. [1]
Topic(s)
- Dairy laws -- United States [1]
- Dairy products -- Cooperative marketing [1]
- Dairy products -- Prices [1]
- Dairying -- Economic aspects [1]
- Marketing orders -- New England [1]
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Contributor: ("Morse, True D.")
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: Misc. (Library), 1957-1958
Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
Date: 1957-1958
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.
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