shipping points are Seneca, Sycamore, Edward's Ferry and White's 

 Ferry. There are grain elevators at all of these places. The usual 

 custom is to sell to men on the ground, who board the produce and 

 market it in Washington. Often the owners of the canal boats carry the 

 grain to the city for the growers and sell it for a freight commission. 

 One canal boat will carry about 4,000 bushels of grain, and takes one 

 day to get to market. The farmers living in that part of the district not 

 included in the section described above usually ship by rail. The ship- 

 ping points are Dickerson, Barnesville Station, Bucklodge and Boyds. 

 The dairymen, of whom there are a few in the north end of the District, 

 all ship by rail, selling to middlemen in Washington. Washington is 

 ultimately the market for all of the products of this district. 



Barnesville. The dairymen all ship to Washington by rail, boarding 

 it at Dickerson, Barnesville Station, Bucklodge or Boyds. The wheat 

 is for the most part hauled to German town and other local elevators; 

 little of it is shipped by the growers. 



Darnestown. In this district three means of transportation are 

 used, the canal, the railroad, and direct haul by wagon to Washington. 

 In general it may be said that those living between Darnestown village 

 and the river use the canal to market their grain, shipping mostly from 

 Seneca. In the upper end of the district, the grain is hauled to German- 

 town and sold at the elevator there. Some in the vicinity of Quince 

 Orchard haul to Gaithersburg. Between Travillah and Quince Orchard 

 there is some tendency to haul directly to Washington, a distance of 

 from 15 to 18 miles. The few dairymen in the district ship by rail from 

 Gaithersburg. 



Clarksburg. In the lower end of this district there is a considerable 

 amount of dairying; in the upper end tobacco is grown; throughout the 

 district grain and grass are staples. The dairy products are all shipped 

 to Washington by rail. The market for tobacco is Baltimore, and the 

 shipping point is Mt. Airy, a haul of ten miles or more over what are 

 technically known as "ordinary country roads," which in this instance 

 means roads not ordinarily good and more than ordinarily hilly. The 

 chief market for wheat is Germantown. 



Gaithersburg. The chief marketable products are hay, grain, dairy 

 products and garden truck. The dairy products are shipped to Wash- 

 ington by rail and handled by middlemen there. Grain is sold at local 

 elevators. There is some local market for hay among dairymen. Gar- 

 den truck is in part shipped by rail and in part handled by trucksters 

 in a manner which will be explained later. A few who farm on a large 

 scale ship their grain to the city and dispose of it there. 



Laytonsville. The marketing facilities here are practically the same 

 as in Gaithsburg, with the addition that beef is also marketed in 



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