ABOUT THE FARM 



HE GUEST at the Hotel Touraine, Parker 

 House, or Young's Hotel, Boston, who 

 calls for an order of milk, receives it in 

 a glass bottle sealed with a metal cap, 

 and upon the cap as well as upon the 

 bottle is stamped "J. R. Whipple Co. Dairy, New 

 Boston, X.H." 



Were the guest to follow the empty bottle back to 

 the place whence it came, he would arrive at the little 

 village of New Boston among the hills of lower New 

 Hampshire, and there, stretched over the slopes and val- 

 leys about the town and along the foaming Piscataquog 

 River, he would see the broad, fertile pastures and trim, 

 substantial buildings of Valley View Farm. This, the 

 Muzzey, Hutchinson, and several adjoining farms are 

 the property of J. R. Whipple Company, which manages 

 the Parker House, Young's Hotel, and Hotel Touraine. 

 The sole purpose of the Farms is to supply these hotels 

 with the best table milk, cream, butter, eggs, poultry, 

 pork, hams, and sausages. It has always been the en- 

 deavor of the hotel management to secure the most 

 delicious food products that the markets of Boston and 

 New York afford. Not content, however, with the best 

 the market could furnish, Mr. Whipple determined some 

 years ago to have his own dairy farm, and the enterprise 

 was established, which now comprises twenty-five hun- 

 dred or more acres. It is described and illustrated in 

 this book. 



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