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Show October Utah Farm Bureau News 6 Page THINK METRIC J, 1973, a state law went into effect requiring that all vehicles traveling on On September article period of dual U.S.D.A.s Spade .45 Socket for spade mount .25 Get your SMV signs for all from your county Farm Bureau office or contact: UTAH FARM BUREAU SERVICE COMPANY cars East Fourth South are already using engines, transmissions and other parts built to metric specifications. In Ohio, some road signs have been 84102 dimensioning-reporti- ng data in both English and terms-while metric people became to new the measure. adjusted The present haphazard measures send farm products to market in bushels, pounds, gallons, bales, - Pole 1.00 Salt Lake City, Utah the Agricultural Situation magazine. Agricultural products, as they leave the farm, arent especially measurement- sensitive (they wont call for a lot of special tools and instruments), the article states. Although farmers would need to get new scales and, in some cases, new marketing containers, many things on the farm would change slowly. Machinery, for instance, would only be replaced with models built to metric specifications as it wore out Several equipment manufacturers are right now laying plans for changeover in the next few years. Auto mechanics have already added metric wrenches to their toolboxes because they work on foreign cars. And some American-mad- e Slow-Moving-Vehi- 629 from 1 11 state highways at under 25 miles per hour be posted with a sign. The state highway patrol is responsible for enforcing this accidentpreventing law. Decal $1.65 Metal sign 2.25 now posted with distances in kilometers. Agricultural statistics would, of course, have to be converted to metrics. But computers will ease the switch. There would also undoubtedly be a have to endure in the coming changeover to the metric system of measurements? Not nearly as much as most other industries, according to a recent LAW! equipment Farm switch easier than most How much will U.S. agriculture IT'S THE FB With a special incentive for early payment of dues, the 1974 Utah Farm Bureau membership drive is under way. Mailing of invoices for the $20 annual fee will include details on the accidental death insurance policy to be given members who pay by December 31, 1973. Neil Sumsion, director of field services for the Utah Farm Bureau, is spearheading the drive that he USE YOUR FARM BUREAU MEMBERSHIP CARD FOR DISCOUNTS ON ALL SIZE crates, cases, drums, and an assortment of other sizes of containers. With the simple conversion of metric measurements by using the base 10, going metric . . . would ultimately make the job of reporting agricultural statistics much easier. It cant hurt the United States at all in foreign agricultural trade to move into the metric system in use in every other major trading nation. This country has long enough been an island in a metric sea. launches '74 member drive 1 LIST PRICE predicts will top the 1973 record level of 10,100 members. Benefits of the insurance policy cover death resulting from causes other than vehicles required to be licensed and accidents occurring due to war. Both the member and his wife are covered. Members paying dues during January 1974 will receive coverage from the date they join; after that - month, the insurance policy is not being offered. Sumsion lists many benefits of belonging to Farm Bureau. They include: Representation of the members special interests in state legislature and congress. school boards, county commissions, and regulatory agencies at all levels of Representation before TIRES CO-O- P government. Information about developments in agricultural and consumer affairs. Savings on purchase of tires, seed corn ana other farm supplies. 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