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: General Correspondence, 1962
    Dairy: General Correspondence, 1962
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      • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
      • Date Created: 1962
      • Description: 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 Marketing Program; improving milk quality and production methods.
      • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress
      Miniature of Dairy: Northeast Milk Marketing Order, 1962
      Dairy: Northeast Milk Marketing Order, 1962
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        • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
        • Date Created: 1962
        • Description: Topics include Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman's decision on proposed amendments to milk marketing orders; response to decision from the Northeastern Association of State Departments of Agriculture; milk prices.
        • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress
        Miniature of Dairy, USDA Proposed Amendment to Class I Prices, 1963
        Dairy, USDA Proposed Amendment to Class I Prices, 1963
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          • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
          • Date Created: 1963
          • Description: Topics include hearing Federal Milk Order pricing, particularly proposed amendments to Class I milk pricing; letter from Elmer Towne, Vermont Commissioner of Agriculture, supporting continuation of Class I milk pricing.
          • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress
          Miniature of Oleomargarine: bills to repeal tax, 1949
          Oleomargarine: bills to repeal tax, 1949
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            • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
            • Date Created: 1949
            • Description: 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).
            • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress
            Miniature of 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.
            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.
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              • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
              • Date Created: 1936
              • Description: 1936 Internal Revenue Service regulations relating to the taxes on oleomargarine, adulterated butter and process or renovated butter.
              • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress
              Miniature of Dairy: General Correspondence, 1962
              Dairy: General Correspondence, 1962
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                • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
                • Date Created: 1962
                • Description: 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.
                • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress
                Miniature of Dairy Bill Hearing, February 27, 1962
                Dairy Bill Hearing, February 27, 1962
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                  • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
                  • Date Created: 1962
                  • Description: 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.
                  • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress
                  Miniature of Dairy: Abernethy "Self-Help" bill (Library), 1958
                  Dairy: Abernethy "Self-Help" bill (Library), 1958
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                    • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
                    • Date Created: 1958
                    • Description: Topics include H.R. 10043 by Representative Thomas Abernethy (MS), which is the same as a bill in the Senate by Senators Hubert Humphrey (MN) and Alexander Wiley (WI); bill would establish a "Dairy Stabilization Board" which would be empowered to fix prices, control production, establish the level of price supports for manufacturing milk, and conceivably take over all the processing functions; response of Vermont farm organizations to the bill; Aiken's estimation of the chance of the bill in Congress; current balance between consumption and production of milk; fertilizer payments; Vermont hearings on the "Self-Help" bill.
                    • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress
                    Miniature of Dairy Products: Correspondence, 1955
                    Dairy Products: Correspondence, 1955
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                      • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
                      • Date Created: 1955
                      • Description: Topics include price subsidies for milk and their relation to production and consumption; President Eisenhower and the Democratic Congress; controversy over grain elevators in Pakistan; views of the late Senator Robert Taft (OH) on farms; price for milk in the Boston market; Brucellosis program funding; failure to include northern New Jersey in a milk order; insertion of comments by Elmer Towne into the Congressional Record by Senator Aiken; effort to equalize milk prices nationally; money spent in Vermont and New England for milk promotion through the Vermont Dairy Council , the American Dairy Association of Vermont, Milk for Health, Inc., and the New England Dairy and Food Council; proposed amendments to milk marketing orders; New York milk price; Aiken's request that milk vending machines be placed in the Senate Office Building; hearings about proposed amendments to milk marketing orders; bulk milk tanks; request for President Eisenhower to visit the Vermont Dairy Festival in 1956; local ordinances and state laws on milk; New York-New Jersey milk regulation; Vermont hearing on "Rules and Regulations Relating to the Manufacture and Sale of Ice Cream and Other Frozen Dairy Products"; Aiken press release urging Republican women to drink milk; current rate of purchases of dairy products; handling of milk in the Brattleboro area.
                      • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress