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: 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.
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    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.
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      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.
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        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.
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          Miniature of Dairy: H.R.12138 Lehigh Valley Case; Amendments to NY NJ Milk order; Jesse Stalker Case,1962
          Dairy: H.R.12138 Lehigh Valley Case; Amendments to NY NJ Milk order; Jesse Stalker Case,1962
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            • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
            • Date Created: 1962
            • Description: Topics include Lehigh Valley Coop. v. United States, Supreme Court case; H.R. 12138, a bill to amend the Agriculture Marketing Act of 1937 to permit certain payments under milk marketing orders; amendments to New York-New Jersey milk order; Jessee Stalker case, a New York producer-handler
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            Miniature of Dairy Bill Correspondence, 1962
            Dairy Bill Correspondence, 1962
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              • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
              • Date Created: 1962
              • Description: Topics include correspondence with constituents about President Kennedy's dairy bill; milk production controls and marketing quotas; dairy price supports; milk marketing and promotion; letter from Elmer Town, Vermont Commissioner of Agriculture, concerning producer milk quotas; copy of a letter from Elmer Towne to Carl Vinson, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, in regard to a bill that would require the Armed Services to recognize state milk pricing regulations; Senate debate on the farm bill, and difficulty of Republican minority in opposing administration backed proposals.
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