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Show June 1968 UTAH FARM BUREAU NEWS Page Nloss Lists Many Tours Scheduled For Last Four Months Utah Exports Sen. Frank E. Moss, announced that exporters In the state of Utah sold an estimated $57 million worth of manufactured goods to foreign markets during fiscal 1966, an increase of 27 since 1960. Agricultural exports totaled $17 million during fiscal 1966, an Increase of 28 percent In six years. Senator Moss said the Bureau of International Commerce reported that nearly all of the Increase of $11.9 million In industrial exports occurred after 1963. Since 1963, exports from Utah rose in six of the nine industry groups for which change can be measured. Sales abroad of food and kindred products expanded to $5.6 million in 1966, a two thirds gain In six years, occurring mostly after Farm Bureau members and their farm friends from Utah will be traveling far and wide during the last four months of this year. D-Ut- ah, 1963. ducts program will be taking American farmers to see the sights and meet the farmers all over the world. They will be making lasting, rewarding friendships among people of the soil in New Zealand, Canada, Argentina, Australia, Chile, Tahiti, Hawaii, Uruguay, Hong Kong, Brazil, Japan, Peru, Singapore, Thailand, Eastern United States, and the Caribbean. International goodIts all a part of Farm Bureau's grass-roo- ts will program to afford American farmers the chance to see agriculture in foreign lands, and to spread the doctrine of the competitive free enterprise system among farmers and farm organizarions around the The In and again in early November, groups will be visiting the Parker Ranch on the Island of Hawaii and enjoying a Hawaiian barbecue as guests of the Maui Farm Bureau. A New England Fall Foliage Tour takes in the sights and the farming in Ontario and Quebec provinces of Canada as well as Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, Washington, D.C., Virginia, West favorites in Farmer-To-Farm- er Virginia, and Kentucky. One of the all-titravel is the South American tour, visiting the Santa Rosa Irrigation Project in Peru, the National Society of Agriculture in Chile, the pampas of Argentina, a barbecue luncheon with representatives of farm organizations in Uruguay, and the coffee testing headquarters in Brazil. In October and November the farmers who take the Farm Bureau Orient Tour will see green tea production at Skizuoka, Japan, talk with Nationalist Chinese farmers on Taiwan, inspect the growing of rice and the raising of ducks outside of Hong and go out into the countryside Kong near the "Bamboo Curtain", to see some of the agriculture of Thailand. A y, all inclusive Tour of the Pacific includes visits to escorted Farmer-To-Farm- er both Australia and New Zealand - - adjacent to each other but different in physical characteristics. Visiting farmers will see dairy, and grapes. And they will be Invited to eat sheep, cotton, oranges, and spend the night as house-gues- ts of Australian and New Zealand mid-Aug- ust me ports of this group. The leading agricultural exports were wheat, $6.4 million; wheat flour, $2.8 million; feed grains, $1.4 million; lard and tallow, $1.3 million; and hides and skins, $1.1 million. 42-da- are urged to fight cattle grubs FBs farmers. FB supports proposed youth farm labor rule Cattle grubs are one of the most serious insect problems facing today's cattle industry. State Farm Bureaus are being urged to help eliminate grubs, which cause annual losses of from $200 to $300 million at the producer-feedlevel. According to packer reports, grub damage causes a loss of from $2.50 to $25 per carcass but inefficiency of animals with grub infestation runs up an even higher cost THE AMERICAN Farm Bu- The American Farm Bureau Federation has endorsed a proposed Labor Department ruling which would permit employment in specified hazardous occupations of Club participants, 14 or 15 years of age, who have received specified training in the safe use of agricultural machinery and equipment. In a letter to the Department, Roger Fleming, AFBF secretary-treasurand director of the Washington office, said the proposed should be approved. He added that Farm Bureau recommends ruling similar a authorization for young workers provided comparable training in high school agriculture courses or in other educational 4-- H er reau Federation's national livestock advisory committee at its last meeting recommended that State Farm Bureaus, in areas where grubs are a problem, take the lead in getting the cooperation of all interested groups in conducting a statewide effort to eradicate the heel fly, the adult state of the cattle grub. INFORMATION and possible speakers . on the subject are available to those interested through the AFBF research and commodity activities division in Chicago. Infested cattle are inefficient cattle, the committee stressed. farmer-To-Farm- er world. Meat and grain-mi- ll proshred In the states ex- State er Meet Your CUSTOMER and Your NEIGHBOR Travel with Farm Bureau FARM BUREAU MUTUAL FUND, INC. PROGRAM For Farm Bureau Members Only YOU BUY DIRECT no -salesmen so you pay no FBMF has Highway SAFETY! i commissions RETIREMENT Et Mail COPYrOFlPROS PECTUS ANyAVAIl ABl Gentlemen: E I Scudder Fund Distributors, Inc., Lock Box 174, Chicago, Illinois 60690 Gentlemen: Pease send me a Farm Bureau Mutual Fund Prospectus NZ-Austra- lia 27 Oct. Hawaii Nov. 3 -- Nov. 15 17-No- v. Please send me information on tours checked Name Address State City NAME Phone ADDRESS MAIL TO: Utah Farm Bureau Travel E. 4th South Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 629 STATE ZIP Oct. 16 - Nov. 18 South America Oct. 11 - Nov. 10 to CITY Orient New England Fall Foliage Sept. 25 - Oct. 19 Oct. 2 - Oct. 26 Investing in Common Stocks for Long Term Growth For Greater 7 I Zip |