Scope and content Mimeographed copies of minutes and reports of hearings held by the Federal Milk Commission for the Middle States in 1917 to determine a "reasonable" price for milk in New York. Additional records include a draft report by the New York City Loose Milk Commission on the scientific, economic, and public health aspects of the sale of loose milk, with some newspaper clippings discussing the controversy (1931), and a record of testimony furnished by representatives of the Dairymen's League, New...

Scope and content Papers of Roswell D. Cooper, Sr. relate to the Dairymen's League and the New York dairy industry, and include letters to and replies from newspapers, the United States Department of Agriculture, Fred Sexauer of the League, and others about milk marketing, prices, surpluses, lobbying, milk strikes, the cooperative movement, the Temple of Agriculture, Federal dairy policies, and other matters; reports of officers of the League, 1917-19; a microfilm copy of a paper by Cooper on the history of...