BALTIMORE, MD. - At a reorganization meeting last Friday, the Maryland Cooperative Milk Producers Board of Directors elected officers for the 1981-82 year. Fred G. Butler, Sr. of Inwood, W. Va. was chosen to serve as president, replacing Herbert W. Wessel, Jr who declined to run for re-election. Butler formerly was vice president of the board. Owner and operator of a 1500 acre farm, Butler has 300 head of dairy cattle, replacement heifers ani id Holstein steers. He and his wife, Norma Gene, have two children. Fred, Jr., 22, is a graduate of Potomac State and is now active in the family dairy 'business. Daughter Judy Rae, 19, is a nursing student at Sheperd College. Butler, a West Virginia native, h ias been active in both igncultural and community af- ; ->irs He is vice president of the i est Virginia State Farm Bureau, treasurer of the National Milk Producers Federation, and is one of three farmers in the state of West Virginia recently appointed by the state Commissioner of Agriculture to develop a lamb slaughter facility in West Virginia. For the past 15 years Butler has been a member of the Mar- msburg-Berkley County Chamber ){ Commerce Board of Education 12 years and was appointed by Governor Jay Rockefeller to serve m the West Virginia Labor Management Advisory Com mssion. The dairyman is a 32nd Degree Mason and boasts a perfect at tendance record during 29 years of membership with the Lions Club For which he currently is chairman CIKI A Kl^flKlfl? Ask About Ford Credit I 1 1 • At Lancaster Ford Tractor Field Test A Power Sped And Get This Hefty Pocket Knife FREE! 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In addition to his farming operation, the new cooperative president is owner and president of Wright Motor Company, a Chrysler dealership in Matin sburg. Butler said, “It is a very critical time for the dairy industry with milk production at such a high LANCASTER FORD TRACTOR, INC. THE HOME OF THE RELIABLES 1655 Rohrerstown Road, Lancaster, PA Flory Mill Exit off Route 283 Phone; 717-569-7063 Samuel B. Foard, Jr. level, it is me dairy farmers’ responsibility to discipline themselves in controlling production and the cooperative board and management’s concern to try and pick up additional Class I sales for the fanner.” MCMP’s new vice president is Samuel B. Foard, Jr. of Street, Md. He is owner and operator of an 800- acre dairy farm in Harford County which is part of his family’s original homestead. He began shipping milk to Maryland Cooperative Milk Producers in 1948 and now milks 250 Holstein cows. Foard and his wife, the former Dorothy Amos, are both natives of Harford County. 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Carol, 23, is an oc cupational therapist in Fayet teville, N.C. and Kristine, 11, is still at home. Foard is chairman of the Har ford County Ag Land Preservation Committe, a member of the Soil Conservation Advisory Board, Equipment Division Committee chairman at MCMP and vice president of Holly Milk Cooperative, Inc. near Boiling Springs, Pa. Dairy goat workshop coming in May DORNSIFE Officers of the Heart Of Penn Dairy Goat Breeders’ Co-op announce their first dairy goat management clinic and showmanship workshop. The event will be held in May near Sunbury with activities in cluding demonstrations, exhibits and practice for participants in hoof trimming, tattooing, disbudding, show procedure. 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