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- Milk: Correspondence H.R. 2119, S. 762, 1949
- Date Created
- 1892-1984
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Topics include bills in House and Senate to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to announce the parity price of milk and announce or make effective the support price of milk; mandatory supports for dairy products; disposal of surplus dairy products; proposed suspension of Boston milk order;...
Show moreTopics include bills in House and Senate to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to announce the parity price of milk and announce or make effective the support price of milk; mandatory supports for dairy products; disposal of surplus dairy products; proposed suspension of Boston milk order; Vermont farm cooperatives; supply and demand provision of the New England milk formula; United Farmers of New England; proposed equalizing of prices in New York and New England milksheds; marketing of Class II New York milk in New England secondary markets.
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- Regulations no. 9 relating to the taxes on oleomargarine, adulterated butter and process or renovated butter under the acts of August 2, 1886 (24 Stat., 209), May 9, 1902 (32 Stat., 193), August 10, 1912 (37 Stat., 273), October 1, 1918 (40 Stat., 1008), July 10, 1930 (46 Stat, . 1022), March 4, 1931 (46 Stat., 1549) and February 24, 1933 (47 STat., 902) Revised April 1936.
- Date Created
- 1936
- Description
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1936 Internal Revenue Service regulations relating to the taxes on oleomargarine, adulterated butter and process or renovated butter.
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- Milk Marketing, 1941-1942
- Date Created
- 1941-1942
- Description
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Topics include milk prices; United States Department of Agriculture Marketing Administration regulations for the Greater Boston and New York marketing areas; drought conditions and low cost feed.
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- Dairy and the US Congress
- Date Created
- 1941-1975
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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,...
Show moreThis 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.
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- S. 1418: Provide Adjustment of Maximum Prices on Milk, 1943-1944
- Date Created
- 1943-1944
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Topics include report, drafts and text of S.1418: Adjustment of Milk Prices, submitted by Senators Eastland (MS) and McClellan (AR); dairy subsidies, price ceilings, and milk production.
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- Oleomargarine Hearings: H.R. 2245, 1948
- Date Created
- 1948
- Description
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Tax on Oleomargarine; proposed amendment drafts; statistical report on the use of foreign coconut oil in margarine; statistical reports on oleomargarine produced and materials used for January and February 1948 as compared to January and February 1947.
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- Oleomargarine Bill: Correspondence, 1948
- Date Created
- 1948
- Description
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Topics include oleomargarine regulation; oleomargarine tax; oleomargarine use in hotels and restaurants disguised as butter; oleomargarine coloring; oleomargarine production and the cost of butter; oleomargarine advertisements in Life magazine.
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- Oleomargarine Bill: Correspondence, 1948
- Date Created
- 1948
- Description
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Topics include oleomargarine legislation; oleomargarine tax; oleomargarine use in hotels and restaurants disguised as butter; oleomargarine coloring; production of oleomargarine and the cornering of the cotton oil market by two companies; oleomargarine bill in the Senate Committee on Finance;...
Show moreTopics include oleomargarine legislation; oleomargarine tax; oleomargarine use in hotels and restaurants disguised as butter; oleomargarine coloring; production of oleomargarine and the cornering of the cotton oil market by two companies; oleomargarine bill in the Senate Committee on Finance; rather than the Senate Agriculture Committee; the United States Food and Drug Administration and the misbranding of foods; Vermont dairy industry; corn syrup served as maple syrup.
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- Oleomargarine: bills to repeal tax, 1949
- Date Created
- 1949
- Description
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Topics include proposed bills to repeal tax on oleomargarine; Aiken's opposition to oleomargarine being passed off as butter; text of proposed bills to repeal tax on margarine (S. 60, S. 117, S. 254, S. 332, H.R. 2023).
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- Dairy: Misc. (Library), 1957-1958
- Date Created
- 1957-1958
- Description
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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...
Show moreTopics 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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- Dairy price supports - Keith Wallace Letter, 1958
- Date Created
- 1958
- Description
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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...
Show moreTopics 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.
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- Dairy price supports - correspondence, 1958
- Date Created
- 1958
- Description
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Topics include Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson's proposal to reduce dairy price supports; Aiken's response to Benson's proposal; proposed legislation from Senator Hubert Humphrey (MN).
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- Dairy Price Supports -- Correspondence, 1958
- Date Created
- 1958
- Description
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Topics include correspondence with constituents about Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson's proposal to reduce dairy price supports and Aiken's response; Senate proposal to freeze all farm price supports at existing level.
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- Dairy: Correspondence and Dairymen's League vs. Teamsters, 1959
- Date Created
- 1959
- Description
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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...
Show moreTopics 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.
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- Dairy -- United States Department of Agriculture Amendments, 1960
- Date Created
- 1960
- Description
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Topics include United States Department of Agriculture amendments to milk marketing orders in the Greater Boston, Connecticut, Southeastern New England, Springfield, and Worcester marketing areas.
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- Dairy -- 2 cent per cwt. Deduction in Boston Milk Orders for Non-Members, 1960
- Date Created
- 1960
- Description
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Topics include proposed amendment to the Boston Milk Order for a two cent per hundred-weight tax on all producers in the Boston pool who are not members of a qualified co-operative association; proposed tax to cover the cost of market information, verification of weights, sampling, and testing of...
Show moreTopics include proposed amendment to the Boston Milk Order for a two cent per hundred-weight tax on all producers in the Boston pool who are not members of a qualified co-operative association; proposed tax to cover the cost of market information, verification of weights, sampling, and testing of milk; Aiken's responses to constituent letters in opposition to the proposed amendment.
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- Dairy -- Milk Sanitation Bill, 1960
- Date Created
- 1960
- Description
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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...
Show moreTopics 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.
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- Dairy: General Correspondence, 1962
- Date Created
- 1962
- Description
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Topics include Senator Aiken's correspondence to constituents on small dairy farms; processing tax on feed grain; dairy farm surpluses; milk dating; marketing quotas; roller dried skim milk powder; proposal to collect milk promotion funds through federal milk market orders; bulk tanks; Milk...
Show moreTopics include Senator Aiken's correspondence to constituents on small dairy farms; processing tax on feed grain; dairy farm surpluses; milk dating; marketing quotas; roller dried skim milk powder; proposal to collect milk promotion funds through federal milk market orders; bulk tanks; Milk Marketing Program; improving milk quality and production methods.
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- Dairy Bill Hearing, February 27, 1962
- Date Created
- 1962
- Description
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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;...
Show moreTopics 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.
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