A Personal Invitation to You 
WE often have wished that everyone who receives this book might come 
to Three Rivers, so that we could show them over the farm But 
•T , Lr." *° ""^^''^^ ^^'^ desire in this matter, as our book 
goes mto 175 000 homes each year, and these homes are scatt;red through 
out the United States, Canada and European countries. But those of you 
who live in adjoining: states could come at a very small expense We 
should be very glad, indeed, to have you visit us, and if you decide to do 
so, be sure and bring your old clothes so that we can go right out into 
the field without any fear of soiling our "duds." When you mLrus you 
will meet just plain folks." We keep clean and tidy during working 
days and on Sundays we fix up and go to church and Sunday school where 
all strawberry growers should go. 
During the past few years we have had many visitors, some of them 
coming from away up in Canada, and some of them from the Pacific-coast 
States and a great many of them from the Eastern and nearby States. 
All of these were so well pleased with what they saw that we want the rest 
of our friends to come. In two editions of our book we made an offer of 
|10 00 per day and all expenses to any one who would visit our farm and 
find that we were not carrying out every detail of the work as represented 
in our book. Every visitor has remarked before leaving that, so far as he 
could see our farm operations were more interesting and complete than we 
represented them to be. and that the great fields of strawberry plants 
were more attractive than any picture we ever have shown in our book 
One Canadian visitor remarked that he was bitterly disappointed, and when 
asked why, he said it was because he could plainly see that he would have 
to pay his own car fare and that he would not get the $10.00 per day He 
added that the money he had spent in coming to see our farm was one of 
the best investments he ever made. 
We like visitors and we hope you will consider this a personal invita- 
tion to come You will be our guest while here. When you offer to pay 
your hotel bill the clerk will tell you it is all arranged for. And before 
you are on the farm five minutes we shall feel as well acquainted as though 
we had known each other all our lives. 
We always have felt that the closer buyer and seller come into touch 
one with the other the better, because then we learn something of each 
others personality and feel more like getting right down to business 
And alter you meet us face to face and see with your own eyes what we 
are doing you will agree with all other visitors, first, that the farm is more 
beautiful than you ever dreamed of; second, that our field of strawberry 
plants IS the largest you ever saw; third, that all our farm operations are 
superior to what we claim for them. and. fourth, that we are not as good 
looking as you had expected to find us. 
And let US add that we shall be glad to have our Pacific Coast and In- 
ter-mountain State friends visit our Western farms and take note of what 
we are doing there in the interest of better and bigger crops of straw- 
berries. 
Should you decide to come, our offer of $10.00 per day and expenses 
stiil holds good, if we fail to show you. 
Very truly yours, 
R. M. Kellogg Co. 
