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Metric System for the Journal of Dairy Science

ABSTRACT

At the 1964 Annual American Dairy Science Association meeting in Tucson, Arizona, a resolution was passed: "... that the metric system be used for recording data and measurements in all articles printed in the Journal of Dairy Science." In addition, the Journal Managament Committee had recommended in its report that this transition be made. Recently, the American Society of Animal Science voted 820 to 117 to adopt the metric system for the Journal of Animal Science.

The metric system is the name for the international system of weights and measures based upon the meter and the kilogram. This system dates back to 1791, when the National Assembly of France sought to establish the meter as one ten-millionth of a meridian quadrant of the earth. It has gradually displaced local and national systems in the commerce and industry of all except the English-speaking countries. Eighty-eight countries, representing about 90% of the world's population, now use the metric system.