Dairy and the US Congress

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.

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17 Milk -- Prices -- United States. 14 Agricultural price supports -- United States. 11 Milk trade -- United States. 7 Dairy laws -- United States. 7 Margarine -- Law and legislation -- United States. 7 Margarine -- Taxation -- United States. 7 Surplus agricultural commodities. 5 Milk hygiene -- Standards -- Law and legislation -- United States. 5 Milk trade -- Marketing -- Law and legislation -- United States. 4 Farm production quotas. 4 Milk trade -- New York (State). 3 Agricultural subsidies -- United States. 3 Butter trade. 3 Dairy cattle -- Feeding and feeds. 3 Dairy products -- Cooperative marketing. 3 Dairy products. 3 Dairying -- Economic aspects. 3 Milk -- Prices -- New York (State). 3 Milk -- Prices. 3 Milk trade -- New England. 3 National Cooperative Milk Producers' Federation. 3 Price regulation -- United States. 2 Agricultural prices -- Government policy -- United States. 2 Brucellosis in cattle. 2 Commodity Credit Corporation. 2 Dairy processing. 2 Dairy products -- Law and legislation -- United States. 2 Droughts -- Economic aspects -- United States. 2 Eisenhower -- Dwight D. (Dwight David) -- 1890-1969. 2 Margarine industry -- United States. 2 Milk -- Cooperative marketing -- New England. 2 Milk -- Grading -- United States. 2 Milk -- Prices -- Massachusetts -- Boston. 2 Milk -- Prices -- New England. 2 Milk -- Standards -- Law and legislation -- United States. 2 Milk consumption. 2 Milk supply -- Government policy -- United States. 2 Milk trade -- Fat content -- United States. 2 Milk trade -- Massachusetts -- Boston. 2 Milk trade. 2 Milk yield -- Law and legislation -- New England. 2 United States Congress House Committee on Agriculture. 2 United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. 1 Abernethy Thomas Perkins 1890-. 1 Agricultural laws and legislation -- United States. 1 Agricultural societes -- United States. 1 Agriculture -- Taxation -- Law and legislation. 1 Agriculture, Cooperative -- United States. 1 Aiken -- George D. (George David) -- 1892-1984. 1 Animal industry -- Law and legislation. 1 Aplin Richard D. (Richard David). 1 Austin Warren R. (Warren Robinson) 1877-1962. 1 Benson -- Ezra Taft. 1 Brannan -- Charles F. (Charles Franklin) -- 1903-. 1 Brucellosis vaccines -- Law and legislation -- United States. 1 Butter -- Prices. 1 Cheese industry -- United States. 1 Coloring matter in food -- Law and legislation -- United States. 1 Cooperative marketing of farm produce. 1 Cream industry -- Costs. 1 Dairy Farmers of America. 1 Dairy cattle -- United States. 1 Dairy farming -- United States. 1 Dairy farms. 1 Dairy laws -- New England. 1 Dairy processing -- Vermont -- Brattleboro. 1 Dairy processing -- Vermont. 1 Dairy product industry -- Costs -- United States. 1 Dairy products -- Prices -- Law and legislation. 1 Dairy products -- Prices -- Subsidies. 1 Dairy products -- Prices. 1 Dairy products industry -- Economic aspects. 1 Dairying -- Government Policy -- United States. 1 Dairying -- New England. 1 Dairying, Cooperative -- United States. 1 Dairying, Cooperative. 1 Dairying. 1 Dried milk industry. 1 Farm produce -- Marketing. 1 Farm produce. 1 Farmers -- Economic conditions. 1 Farmers -- Taxation -- Law and legislation. 1 Farms, Small -- United States. 1 Flood control -- Law and legislation -- United States. 1 Food relief, American. 1 Foreign trade regulation -- United States. 1 Grain as feed. 1 Humphrey Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio) 1911-1978. 1 Ice cream, ices, etc. -- Law and legislation. 1 Labels -- Law and legislation -- United States. 1 Livestock -- Marketing. 1 Maple syrup. 1 Margarine -- Law and legislation -- Arkansas. 1 Margarine -- Marketing -- Law and legislation -- United States. 1 Marketing -- Law and legislation -- United States. 1 Marketing orders -- New England. 1 Mastitis. 1 Maybank -- Burnet R. (Burnet Rhett) -- 1899-1954. 1 Milk -- Cooperative marketing. 1 Milk -- Government Policy. 1 Milk -- Law and legislation -- United States. 1 Milk -- Marketing. 1 Milk -- Prices -- Law and legislation -- New England. 1 Milk -- Prices -- Massachusetts. 1 Milk -- Prices -- Rhode Island -- Providence. 1 Milk -- Prices -- Vermont. 1 Milk trade -- Canada. 1 Milk trade -- Law and legislation -- United States. 1 Milk trade -- New Jersey. 1 Milk trade -- Rhode Island -- Providence. 1 National Creameries' Association. 1 National Milk Producers Federation. 1 New England Dairy and Food Council. 1 Newport (Vt.). 1 Oils and fats, Edible -- Law and legislation -- United States. 1 Pesticide residues in food. 1 Price fixing -- United States. 1 Products liability -- Dairy products. 1 Roosevelt Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) 1882-1945. 1 School milk programs -- United States. 1 School milk programs. 1 Strikes and lockouts -- United States. 1 Taft -- Robert A. (Robert Alphonso) -- 1889-1953. 1 Tariff on dairy products. 1 Tariff on margarine -- Law and legislation -- United States. 1 Taxation. 1 Trade regulation -- United States. 1 United Farmers of New England. 1 United States -- Agricultural Marketing Administration. 1 United States -- Office of Price Administration. 1 United States -- War Food Administration. 1 United States Agricultural Adjustment Administration. 1 United States Agricultural Marketing Administration. 1 United States Bureau of Internal Revenue Service. 1 United States Congress Committee on Agriculture Subcommittee on Dairy Products. 1 United States Congress House Committee on Agriculture Subcommittee on Dairy Products. 1 United States Congress Senate Appropriations and expenditures. 1 United States Congress Senate Committee on Banking and Currency. 1 United States Congress Senate Committee on Finance. 1 United States Division of Dairy Herd Improvement Investigations. 1 United States Food and Drug Administration. 1 United States Office of Economic Stabilization -- Appropriations and expenditures. 1 United States Office of Economic Stabilization. 1 United States Office of Price Administration. 1 United States Office of Price Stabilization. 1 United States Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act. 1 Water -- Law and legislation -- United States. 1 Wiley Alexander 1884-1967.

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Miniature of Dairy - "Well Pits", 1964
Dairy - "Well Pits", 1964
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    • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
    • Date Created: 1964
    • Description: Topics include 10th anniversary of milk program “to increase the consumption of fluid milk by children in nonprofit schools of high school age and under”; text of Aiken editorial in the Rutland Daily Herald, “Changing Agriculture”; Vermont Department of Agriculture Director Carr’s comments to the United States Department of Health on the proposed USPHS Milk Ordinance and Code, particularly those relating to water supplies; proposed elimination of all well pits.
    • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress
    Miniature of Dairy - Consolidation of New England Milk Marketing Orders (library), 1964
    Dairy - Consolidation of New England Milk Marketing Orders (library), 1964
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      • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
      • Date Created: 1964
      • Description: Topics include proposal to merge the five milk marketing order areas in New England; creation in Vermont by Governor Phil Hoff of a Rural Stabilization and Adjustment Committee; letter from Governor Hoff to Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman, urging him to consolidate the New England milk marketing order areas; USDA press release announcing consolidation.
      • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress
      Miniature of Dairy - Miscellaneous, 1964
      Dairy - Miscellaneous, 1964
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        • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
        • Date Created: 1964
        • Description: Topics include cost of dairy production; farm employment; Federal Milk Marketing Administration and producer-handler regulations; Class I base plans; cost of government programs relating to the dairy industry; development of beef as a by-product of dairying; 1964 Public Health Service Pasteurized Milk Ordinance and Code; dairy proposals in the farm bill, particularly the dairy quotas provision; milk prices and surpluses; voluntary deductions from milk handlers for federal milk marketing efforts.
        • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress
        Miniature of Dairy -- 2 cent per cwt. Deduction in Boston Milk Orders for Non-Members, 1960
        Dairy -- 2 cent per cwt. Deduction in Boston Milk Orders for Non-Members, 1960
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          • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
          • Date Created: 1960
          • Description: 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 milk; Aiken's responses to constituent letters in opposition to the proposed amendment.
          • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress
          Miniature of Dairy -- H.R. 12030 Correspondence, 1960
          Dairy -- H.R. 12030 Correspondence, 1960
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            • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
            • Date Created: 1960
            • Description: 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.
            • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress
            Miniature of Dairy -- Milk Sanitation Bill, 1960
            Dairy -- Milk Sanitation Bill, 1960
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              • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
              • Date Created: 1960
              • Description: 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.
              • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress
              Miniature of Dairy -- Milk Sanitation Bill, Whiting Company, Correspondence, Hearings, 1961
              Dairy -- Milk Sanitation Bill, Whiting Company, Correspondence, Hearings, 1961
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                • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
                • Date Created: 1961
                • Description: 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.
                • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress
                Miniature of Dairy -- Miscellaneous, 1963
                Dairy -- Miscellaneous, 1963
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                  • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
                  • Date Created: 1963
                  • Description: Topics include packaged sterilized cream and government price-support and food-for-peace programs; dairy imports and exports; United States Department of Labor investigation into Dairy Herd Improvement Association employment practices in Vermont.
                  • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress
                  Miniature of Dairy -- Proxmire Bill-McWilliams Talk, 1964
                  Dairy -- Proxmire Bill-McWilliams Talk, 1964
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                    • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
                    • Date Created: 1964
                    • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress
                    Miniature of Dairy -- United States Department of Agriculture Amendments, 1960
                    Dairy -- United States Department of Agriculture Amendments, 1960
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                      • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
                      • Date Created: 1960
                      • Description: 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.
                      • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress