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 Oleomargarine Bill: Correspondence, 1948
Oleomargarine Bill: Correspondence, 1948
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    • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
    • Date Created: 1948
    • Description: 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; 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.
    • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress
    Miniature of Dairy – Legislation – Correspondence, 1963
    Dairy – Legislation – Correspondence, 1963
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      • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
      • Date Created: 1963
      • Description: Topics include Class I milk marketing order proposals by Senator Proxmire (WI) and Senator McCarthy (MN), both of which were opposed by Senator Aiken; milk sanitation legislation; remarks of Rep. Samuel Stratton (NY) in the House of Representatives on federal dairy legislation; milk prices; milk production and surpluses; comments of Elmer Towne, Vermont Commisssioner of Agriculture, on Kennedy administration‚Äôs proposed dairy legislation.
      • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress