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To this liquid she committed the important office of keeping the other food ingredients in such a condition as is most readily digestible.

The ash, or mineral matter in milk, consists of phosphates and carbonate of lime, potash, soda, etc., which are very essential to the bony framework of the body. The protein of milk, casein and albumin, furnish an easily digestible material for the formation of flesh, and is a source of energy.

The carbohydrates, entirely in the form of milk sugar, both furnish energy and are converted into fat.

is in touch with the farmer, knows his herds and fields, his buildings and appliances, and his habits of cleanliness.

All this he watches with the utmost care, and by an elaborate and painstaking system keeps exact record of every herd and every farm from which he secures his supply.

Such precautions are, of course, very expensive-so much so that it is at once apparent that up-to-date methods of handling milk can be employed and carried out only by the largest of our dealers.

The benefit to the public arising from

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The milk fat is very readily assimilated and furnishes both fat and energy in a very high degree.

Now, as we have said, milk is naturally a pure product, and these elements are normally present in ideal proportions. To protect them from deterioration and contamination is the work of science. And the modern high-grade dealer is a scientific expert. He goes far beyond government requirements or recommendations in making his analyses and testing of the milk. His methods of handling include every safeguard known to science. He

trade with the large dealers is too obvious to call for a detailed account. It includes such items as economical expert service, and the exclusive employment of the most progressive methods. A visit to the plant of one of our great New England handlers of milk is to the average householder a complete revelation. She will imagine herself in the laboratory of some great institution of learning, rather than the daily workshop of a commercial establishment.

Such an institution maintains an experiment station, or model farm, where

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the conditions of production are studied at first hand and a standard set, to which other producers, the farmers from whom they secure their supply, may strive to attain.

The protection of milk is thus carried out with such efficiency that the actual product furnished is far in advance of legal requirements. Pure milk is not a dream, but an actuality. It is nature's gift, which man is learning both to appreciate and to guard.

The largest independent dairy company in New England is that of H. P.

Hood & Sons, whose Chemical and Bacteriological Laboratory and whose methods of producing at the famous Hood Farm, Derry, N. H., and of handling milk illustrates all that has been said above. What this means to the public of Greater Boston it is difficult to overestimate. cult to overestimate. Suffice it to say that the development of this great establishment is another instance of the ability of individual enterprise coupled with scientific knowledge to lift the independent dealer to the very highest plane of efficient service.

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HE removal of the old-established firm of publishers and booksellers, Little, Brown, & Co., to their new and larger quarters at 34 Beacon Street, where they are now fully settled, marks another step in the inroads business is making in the aristocratic Beacon Hill district of Boston. Yielding to the necessity of obtaining adequate accommoda

tions for their large and constantly increasing publishing business, with separate offices for its various departments and more suitable retail salesrooms, Little, Brown, & Co. purchased the Cabot family mansion at the corner of Bea

retained in all their original beauty; while such rooms that required renovating have been treated with a careful regard to the maintenance of harmony in color and general effect.

con and Joy LITTLE, BROWN, & COMPANY'S NEW BUILDINGS at 34 streets, over

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From their large stock of original illustrations, Little, Brown, & Co. selected a fine assortment of pictures, and the walls are hung with representative works

of the leading illustrators of the day. As a result, the four floors devoted to office purposes are not only remarkably well equipped for the firm's purposes, but are, in addition, unusually attractive.

Passing through the vestibule, which has been preserved in all its dignity and beauty, as originally built for residential purposes, one enters on the street floor the finely appointed book-room for the sale of books at retail. The rich colors of the fine bindings are in glowing contrast

BEACON STREET, OVERLOOKING BOSTON COMMON

ton Common, and adapted the interior of this substantial residence to their own use. Thus the beautifully carved woodwork, the imported marble fireplaces, the tapestried walls, have been

to the dark oak of the huge bookcases. On this floor also are the commodious salesrooms of the law department.

On the second floor is the suite of offices for the members of the firm, and the dignity of the former drawingrooms is well maintained by the beautiful mahogany office furniture, which has replaced the sofas and chairs of the former occupant.

The publishing and advertising departments adjoin the offices of the firm, and in the rear is the counting-room.

The third floor provides quarters for the manufacturing and art departments, the offices of the wholesale department, and an attractive wholesale sample room.

The fourth floor is occupied by the growing educational and subscription depart

ments.

Immediately in the rear of the building on Joy Street, and connected with it, there has been erected a spacious five-story annex for the wholesale and shipping departments. Little, Brown, & Co.'s bindery and warehouse. is in Cambridge.

The firm of Charles C. Little and James Brown began business in Boston in 1837 on the site, 254 Washington Street, for so many years occupied by the present

world's foremost publishers of the works of standard authors, and books of history, biography, travel, description, belles-lettres, poetry, domestic science, as well as popular fiction, both adult and juvenile. Perhaps no house has issued more of the works of famous American statesmen. Notable publications include the works of Daniel Webster, Francis Parkman, Capt. A. T. Mahan's epoch-making books on "The Influence of Sea Power," the translations of the Polish novels of Henryk Sienkiewicz, the standard library editions of Dumas, Daudet, and Hugo, and Bartlett's "Familiar Quotations."

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The house has been almost from its beginning the leading publishing firm of law books in America.

By acquiring the publishing business of Roberts Brothers in 1898, Little, Brown, & Co. came into possesAcco sion of Miss Wormeley's wonderful translation of Balzac's works, and the writings of such authors as Louisa M. Alcott. Dr. Edward Everett Hale, Helen Hunt Jackson, Emily Dickinson, Susan Coolidge, Louise Chandler Moulton, Lilian Whiting, Annie Payson Call, Mary W. Tileston, Mary P. Wells Smith, and many others.

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firm of Little, Brown, LITTLE, BROWN, & Co.'s FIRST STORE

& Co., succeeding Hil- IN 1837, AT 112 WASHINGTON ST., More recent writers

liard, Gray, & Co., who

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for more than half a century had done a large business in classical books, in text-books for colleges and academies, and in law books. As the successors of Hilliard, Gray, & Co., the house of Little, Brown, & Co. is the oldest book and publishing house in Boston, and is in the second century of its history, its origin dating back to 1784.

The firm has long ranked with the

include: E. Phillips Oppenheim, Sidney McCall, author of "Truth Dexter"; Mary Devereux, the late Lafcadio Hearn, Laura E. Richards, the late Jeremiah Curtin, Mary E. Waller, author of "The Woodcarver of 'Lympus"; Anne Warner, Maud Howe, George Wharton James, Arna Chapin Ray, Maud Wilder Goodwin, Eliza Calvert Hall, and Fannie Merritt Farmer.

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