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.
Miniature of Milk Marketing, 1941-1942
Milk Marketing, 1941-1942
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    • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
    • Date Created: 1941-1942
    • Description: Topics include milk prices; United States Department of Agriculture Marketing Administration regulations for the Greater Boston and New York marketing areas; need for unification of agricultural groups to become a stronger advocate for farmers; Agricultural Marketing Agreement of 1937; milk distributors in the greater New York City area and price fixing; Senate Committee on Agriculture; Providence, Rhode Island Milk Market; butter fat content of milk; United States Department of Agriculture Office of Price Administration; milk retailers; President Roosevelt's Economic Stabilization Program.
    • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress
    Miniature of Milk, 1943-1945
    Milk, 1943-1945
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      • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
      • Date Created: 1943-1945
      • Description: Topics include milk prices for Springfield and Fitchburg, Massachusetts; creamery butter and cheese production estimates; dairy subsidies and milk production; Senate Committee on Agriculture; Senator Warren Austin (VT); Board of Health regulations and the unloading of milk at Hood's creamery in Newport, Vermont; United Farmers Co-operative Creamery Association, Inc.; United States War Food Administration; effect of drought on hay and pasture crops; State Control Boards and surplus milk; United States Office of Price Administration; milk coolers; price of whole milk and butter; Ingelside Dairy; New York milk marketing area; milk fat quota and the manufacture of frozen dairy foods and mix; retail price of milk; importation of milk from Canada.
      • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress
      Miniature of Dairy, 1953
      Dairy, 1953
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        • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
        • Date Created: 1953
        • Description: Topics include cost of feed; door-to-door delivery of milk and automatic dispensers; price support for dairy; decline in livestock values; surplus butter and the armed services; dairy industry advisory committee called by Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson; oleomargarine; large purchases of butter by the Commodity Credit Corporation; President Dwight Eisenhower; Milk Producers Federation banquet; two-price system; price of Class I milk; low fat content butter; shipment of unregulated milk into the New York-New Jersey marketing area; milk surplus.
        • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress
        Miniature of Oleomargarine Hearings: H.R. 2245, 1948
        Oleomargarine Hearings: H.R. 2245, 1948
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          • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
          • Date Created: 1948
          • Description: Tax on Oleomargarine; proposed amendment drafts; statistical report on the use of foreign coconut oil in margarine; statistical reports on oleomargarine produced and materials used for January and February 1948 as compared to January and February 1947.
          • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress
          Miniature of Milk Marketing, 1941-1942
          Milk Marketing, 1941-1942
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            • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
            • Date Created: 1941-1942
            • Description: Topics include milk prices; United States Department of Agriculture Marketing Administration regulations for the Greater Boston and New York marketing areas; drought conditions and low cost feed.
            • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress
            Miniature of Dairy - Miscellaneous, 1964
            Dairy - Miscellaneous, 1964
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              • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
              • Date Created: 1964
              • Description: Topics include cost of dairy production; farm employment; Federal Milk Marketing Administration and producer-handler regulations; Class I base plans; cost of government programs relating to the dairy industry; development of beef as a by-product of dairying; 1964 Public Health Service Pasteurized Milk Ordinance and Code; dairy proposals in the farm bill, particularly the dairy quotas provision; milk prices and surpluses; voluntary deductions from milk handlers for federal milk marketing efforts.
              • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress
              Miniature of S. 1418: Provide Adjustment of Maximum Prices on Milk, 1943-1944
              S. 1418: Provide Adjustment of Maximum Prices on Milk, 1943-1944
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                • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
                • Date Created: 1943-1944
                • Description: Topics include report, drafts and text of S.1418: Adjustment of Milk Prices, submitted by Senators Eastland (MS) and McClellan (AR); dairy subsidies, price ceilings, and milk production.
                • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress
                Miniature of Milk, 1952
                Milk, 1952
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                  • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
                  • Date Created: 1952
                  • Description: Topics include rising cost of dairy production and high cost of feed; Office of Price Stabilization and Supplemental Regulation 63; price control of dairy products; letter from Secretary of State Dean Acheson to Senator Burnet Maybank (SC) in regards to the Defense Production Act; statement of George Paul before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee setting forth the views of the National Creameries Association in regards to the Defense Production Act; Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan; pricing of class 1-C milk in New Jersey and Senate Committee hearings; appropriations for the Dairy Herd Improvement Association Division of the Bureau of Dairy Industry.
                  • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress
                  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: Correspondence, 1954
                    Dairy: Correspondence, 1954
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                      • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
                      • Date Created: 1954
                      • Description: Topics include proposal relating to the parity equivalent of manufacturing milk; disposal of powdered milk surplus in foreign countries; Richard Aplin, Milk Marketing Administrator for the Boston Area; price supports and government surpluses of dairy products; marketing quotas and reduced output of milk; fluid milk purchases; export of dairy products; herd culling program; proper use of diverted acres; price of grain used for dairy rations; milk rations for Armed Services; size of dairy farms and government support for small farms; Commodity Credit Corporation; Senate Committee on Agriculture hearings on dairy support price; decreasing demand for milk; role of Democratic party in creating current dairy industry problems; milk vending machines for office buildings and factories; strawberry milk; Brucellosis; sale of milk in two and four quart cartons; importation of hay and cattle from Canada; field dairy hearings; proposed dairy program; President Eisenhower's flexible price support program; Agricultural Agreement Act of 1937 and domestic trade barriers affecting milk and milk products; meeting of all farm organizations in Vermont interested in dairy to consider general policy questions.
                      • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress