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Old Sandy Spring
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   Farming Continued...

Lex Barnsley plants corn as Arthur Shorts guides the team. The large Barnsley farm in Olney was a setting for Sandy Spring's popular horse shows.

Pig clubs thrived eight decades ago, fostered by Extension Agent Fred J. van Hoesen to instruct youths in swine husbandry. Here he coaches a member of the Laytonsville Pig Club in 1918.