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 -- 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