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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Miniature of Dairy price supports - Keith Wallace Letter, 1958
Dairy price supports - Keith Wallace Letter, 1958
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    • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
    • Date Created: 1958
    • Description: 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 milk prices; questionnaire sent by Aiken to Vermont farmers and farm organizations; bill proposed by Representative Thomas Abernethy (MS); milk production.
    • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress
    Miniature of Dairy Price Supports -- Correspondence, 1958
    Dairy Price Supports -- Correspondence, 1958
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      • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
      • Date Created: 1958
      • Description: 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.
      • 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 price supports - correspondence, 1958
        Dairy price supports - correspondence, 1958
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          • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
          • Date Created: 1958
          • Description: 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).
          • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress