Slate Seed Co., Seedsmen Since 1866, South Boston, Virginia 
37 
Slate’s Improved Gold Leaf 
3003 — SLATE’S GOLD DOLLAR. —For the past 
few years this variety has been very popular in the 
new belt of Eastern Carolinas and Georgia. Trials 
conducted on our farm lead us to think that GOLD 
DOLLAR is not a new variety but a good strain of 
the Hickory Pryor family. It is a safe sort for any 
sandy soil in the New Belt and can be used with 
very good results on most soils in the Old Belt. In 
growth it is rather tall with wide leaves of good 
length, shows all of the characteristics of the Pryor 
family and should make a most desirable grade of 
leaf. It is of the priming type, producing a high 
grade smoking leaf that normally cures easily and 
brings top market prices. GOLD DOLLAR is 
adapted to a wide range of soils but it makes its 
best on sandy soils of medium fertility. It com¬ 
bines weight and color to a very desirable degree 
and we can recommend it to growers in Eastern 
North and South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. 
Oz. 60c, 4 oz. $1.75, lb. $5.00, postpaid. 
Treated Seed—Oz. 75c, 4 oz $2.25, lb. $6.00. 
3015—YELLOW MAMMOTH. — A bright flue- 
cured variety originated in a good tobacco section 
of North Carolina and has proven generally satis¬ 
factory over the whole bright belt. It seems to 
start off well in the field and make a healthy growth 
throughout. Leaves well spaced on the stalk, wide, 
and long. Cures into a light yellow color of medium 
weight and its products are commanding good 
prices now. 
Oz. 60c, % lb. $1.75, lb. $5.00, postpaid. 
Treated Seed.—Oz. 75c, % lb. $2.25, lb. $6.00. 
3001—SLATE’S IMPROVED GOLD LEAF 
This variety was originated on our Hyco Farm 
and has become the most popular flue-cured bright 
tobacco in the world. For the bright flue-cured 
belt of Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia 
and Florida, nothing better can be found. Through 
all the changing demand for leaf tobacco, Gold 
Leaf has made more money for the growers than 
any other sort. It can be topped high and made 
into a priming tobacco that will make a good yield 
per acre and still retain some weight and body to 
the leaf. Then it can be topped medium high and 
made into one of the finest of wrappers. No other 
sort lends itself better to all conditions than Gold 
Leaf. 
The leaf is long and broad and tapers to a sharp 
tip. These are well spaced upon the stalk to admit 
sunlight and make it ripen uniformly upon the hill. 
The plant is upright in growth, holding its lower 
leaves off the ground. The tip leaves, which in 
many tobaccos are almost worthless, fill out well in 
Improved Gold Leaf, and cure into a good bright 
color. Gold Leaf is easier to cure into a high grade 
bright tobacco than any other sort. It is less in¬ 
clined to disease than any other sort and will grow 
on more different types of soil than most tobaccos. 
Since its introduction, we have constantly bred 
and selected our strain of Improved Gold Leaf, 
making it better and better each year, until today 
it is as near the perfect bright tobacco as will ever 
be found. 
Price—Oz. 60c, % lb. $1.75, lb. $5.00, postpaid. 
Treated Seed—Oz. 75c, *4 lb. $2.25, lb. $6.00. 
