. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. y for the work. For seventeenmonths he had charge of the provisioning of twelve thou-sand men. On returning at the close of the war, Mr. Waterhousepurchased a farm in Barrington, which he still owns,and on which he resided for twenty-one years, activelyengaged in its cultivation and management, and alsoextensivelv engaged as a dealer in cattle. It was on thisfarm in 1876 that he established the first creamery everput in operation in the state, whicii he continued with aconstantly increasing popularity for the product, untilthe demand so
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. y for the work. For seventeenmonths he had charge of the provisioning of twelve thou-sand men. On returning at the close of the war, Mr. Waterhousepurchased a farm in Barrington, which he still owns,and on which he resided for twenty-one years, activelyengaged in its cultivation and management, and alsoextensivelv engaged as a dealer in cattle. It was on thisfarm in 1876 that he established the first creamery everput in operation in the state, whicii he continued with aconstantly increasing popularity for the product, untilthe demand so far exceeded the supply that a change toa better milk-producing locality seemed imperative. In1885, therefore, he went to Short Falls in the town ofEpsom, a favorable location in the Suncook valley,where the farmers had become interested in that direc-tion, and a cooperative creamery was established, underhis management. Here he continued for three years,during which time the Short Falls creamery becamenoted throughout New England. Subsequently he man-. Charles H. VVaterhouse. PERSONAL AND FARM SKETCHES. 263 aged a creamery one year at Strafford Centre, and inMay, 1889, went to Cornish to take charge of the Hill-side creamery, then building in the Connecticut valley,opposite the thriving village of Windsor, Vt., whoseprincipal stock-holders were Hon. William M. Evarts andC. C. Beaman, the president of the corporation beingHon. Chester Pike. Here Mr. Waterhouse has remained to the presenttime, devoting all his skill and energv to the enterprisein charge, with such success that Hillside creamery but-ter holds first rank in iVmerica, winning the highest scoreat the Columbian exposition dairy exhibit in Chicago, aswell as in all minor competitions. The average annualproduct of this creamery, which, by the way, employsthe separator system, is about $50,000. Mr. Waterhouse lias been more actively and promi-nently identified with the dairy interest than an}^ otherman in New Hampshire
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