BY JOYCE BUPP Staff Correspondent INWOOD, W. Va. - In spite of current economic spasms, the American dairy industry is far from a dying patient. In fact, some farms are continuing to op timistically invest in updating facilities, geared toward better efficiency in production and labor. Among those looking favorably toward the future is Fred Butler, Sr., an ag leader and activist in national dairy industry circles for nearly three decades. As president of the Middle Atlantic Division and corporate board member of Dairymen, Inc., Freddie Butler is especially pleased with milking efficiency in the double-eight parlor. Fred Butler, owner of one of West Virginia's newest dairy Milking time has been cut to two hours, about half the time in the prior set-up. Automatic facilities, answers questions during a recent tour by visitors. take-offs and crowd gates are other features to keep milking moving smoothly. I-.............-I ■ BUTLER MFC. CO. I ■ Attn P E Hess VP^* Lt: ”>r _ | P 0 Bo* 337 Oxford PA 19363 ■ ■ ASK ABOUT OUR \ ■ NEW DEALER PROGRAM I ■ MAIL IN COUPON TODAY | *Name "Address ■ County (City _ | Phone and secretary-treasurer of the National Milk Producers Federation, Butler’s been on the front lines of the industry battles in dealing with a tight ag economy, and the supply-demand balancing of the nation’s milk supplies. He’s also president of the West Virginia Farmers Association, and a new member of the American Farm Bureau Federation board. In late May, in fact, he returned from an AFBF ag-fact-finding mission in Pacific Rim countries on export expansion opportunities. Butler and his 26-year-old son, Freddie, a graduate of Potomac State, recently put the finishing " * $8 r 9l4 00 ’ State u\ * -»«V ■» \ FARMSTED® I BUY OR LEASE touches to the family's new dairy housing facilities. The T-shaped, high-roofed structure is 70 by 300 feet, with free stalls for 200 head, and is designed for future ex pansion capability. Projecting from the front center ,* GRANT’S CONSTRUCTION CO , INC R.D #1 Buffalo Mills. PA 15534 PH 814-842-6540 MYERS BUILDING SYSTEMS, INC R D #1 Box 161 Clear Spring MD 21722 PH 301 582 4200 Butlers make a long-ten of the football field-sized housing area is a double-eight mailking parlor, tank, utility and office rooms, plus six hospital-maternity stall pens. The block and metal super structure is a visible commitment ‘.;U7 'H~ F. 0.8. .NAZARETH BUILDING SYSTEMS, INC P 0 Bo* 47 Nazareth PA 18064 PH 215 837 7700 WILL GIVE YOU C & M SALES INC R D #1 Honesdale, PA 18431 PH 717 253 1612 TRI COUNTY AGRI SYSTEMS RD 11. Box 55 Swedesboro NJ 08085 PH 609-467 3174 of the Butler family to dairying over the long term. And, after pencil-pushing sessions, Butler is adamant that the cows wil pay for this nearly $300,000 investment. Initial goal is a 2,000-pound per cow per year production im- ■ See What $8 Will Buy From Yot MO BUT < GOMPF CONSTRUCTION CO INC 1841 Jerry s Road Street, MD21154 PH 301 692 5350 MATTSON ENTEI 1605 Mt Holly I Burlington. NJ 0 PH 609-38611 * Prices Ma\ V