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Mathias Hillcrest Farm

circa 1930. Vernon Mathias sprays corn on the Hillcrest Farm.
1940. (Pictured left to right) Malcolm Mathias sews a bag of seed corn shut while Mr. Baile fills bags with 56 pounds of seed and Vernon Mathias weighs the corn.
Maryland Certified Seed corn stored on the second floor of the Vernon Mathias corn building.
circa the 1940s. The Mathias family raised award-winning MIlking Shorthorns on the Vernon Mathias Hillcrest Farm.
circa 1950. Workers for the B.F. Shriver Canning Company harvests string beans on the Mathias Farm. It was common for canning companies to supply the seed while the farmers would plant and cultivate the crop.
circa the 1940s. Ralph Morrison with a milking shorthorn raised on Hillcrest farm.
circa the 1920s. An early dairy wagon for Amos Oliver Warner and Minnie May Lease Warner’s newly bought dairy, Warner’s Willow Farm Dairy.