OUR INCREASED F"ACIl—ITIEE© FOR 1908. 
WE CAN NOW GUARANTEE EVERYBODY QUICK SERVICE. 
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To Our Customers:— 
Rose Hill, N. Y., January, 1, 1908. 
We are pleased to present you our 21st Annual Catalogue for 1908 and trust you will give it a careful examination. 
We want to call your attention to our greatly increased facilities in order to meet the requirements of our fast increasing 
trade, and show you we are now prepared to give you QUICK service. We realize that in order to give entire satisfaction not 
only the best Seeds and Plants must be supplied, but orders must be filled very quickly. 
1907 was a record breaker for us ; greatly surpassing any year in the history of our twenty years in the business, and was 
much larger than we had facilities to promptly handle. For this reason we want to fully explain to our customers that this 
was the cause of delays in filling a great many orders. We were not looking for such an enormous trade in 1907, which com¬ 
pletely covered us with orders, but after some delay we succeeded in filling all orders and have been increasing our facilities 
ever since, so that now we are prepared to give the quickest and best service of any Seed House in this country. 
To show the orders we were obliged to handle daily, we give an illustration from a photograph of one days letter mail which 
contained 9354 letters and postal cards. Think of taking care of the wants of this number of people daily ! Do you wonder we 
were behind filling orders? We are now prepared to take care of everyone in the quickest time possible and illustrate above our 
facilities for 1908. Please notice that we have erected a fine large Seed House at Washington, Iowa, which is now known 
as our Western Branch House, built of brick and cement, especially designed for our business and to take care of all our 
western customers on quick time; 
Orders can be sent to Rose Hill, N. Y., or Washington, Iowa, and we promise the quickest service you ever had. It 
makes no difference to us which place you order from, for we simply divide our crops; have part at each place, so that the 
quality is identical. This Western Branch will save our western customers several days time in ordering seeds, and we are 
supplying the BEST SEEDS at the LOWEST PRICES of any seed house who guarantee their goods. 
This Catalogue for 1908 is the most complete Seed Book we have 
ever sent out and we have taken great pains in securing many new 
Novelties and Specialties of great merit, many of which we show 
colored plates of. Read about the Curiosities on page 52. Any per¬ 
son, no matter where located, can find something of interest in this 
Catalogue. 
We do not want a dissatisfied customer on our books, but know we 
must have a few for the reason we now have on hand unfilled over 420 
orders from people who sent us their order for different amounts from 
5c. to $6.00 and omitted giving their name and address and we have no 
way of knowing who sent us these orders. After reading this if you 
never had your order filled, let us hear from you, (but be sure to send 
duplicate of order), as we are waiting to hear from all who have any 
cause for complaint, assuring everyone we try to satisfy each customer. 
If anything ordered from us never arrived, write us, (giving name of 
varieties short), so we can look up and make good. 
Now please do not think we are always to blame for delays, for we 
are not if you fail to give your address, but let us fill an order for you 
from either of our houses this year and we will show you that we can now give you the quickest service of any seed house. 
You will find that we have made offers in this Book far surpassing anything we have ever offered before, and we are par- 
ticularly anxious to show how quick we can fill orders this year for our customers located in any part of the world. 
The report on the Corn Growing Contest and 20th Anniversary Potato will be found on another page. 
With best wishes for the New Year, and assurance of QUICK service for 1908, we remain, 
Sincerely yours, 
Photo of one days letter mail stacked upon desk, received March 18, 
1907, containing 9364 Letters and Postal Cards. 
WESTERN BRANCH HOUSE: 
WASHINGTON, IOWA. 
F*. B. MILLS CO. 
We print more than a million and a half catalogues, which requires over twelve car loads of paper, and keeps our large printing office at Rose Hill, N. Y., run¬ 
ning day and night to its full capacity the greater part of the year to get these books out. Our printing office is equipped with all the latest and best improved 
machinery, especially designed for our work; thus putting us in a position where we are prepared to mail catalogues immediately to those applying for them. 
If you receive more than one copy of this Catalogue please hand the extra one to some one you think wants Seeds or Plants. 
