ARE OUR GOLD DOLLAR TOBACCO SEED WORTH 
THEIR WEIGHT IN GOLD? 
By David R. Coker 
For our most recently pedigreed Gold Dollar 
seed we charge $1.00 per ounce. 
For one ounce of pure gold the United States 
Government will pay $35.00. 
One ounce of pedigreed, recleaned, treated 
Gold Dollar seed contains about 350,000 indi¬ 
vidual seeds. An acre usually contains between 
5,000 and 8,000 plants. Theoretically, therefore, 
one ounce of seed will produce enough plants to 
set between 40 and 70 acres. 
The careful farmer, however, to be abun¬ 
dantly on the safe side usually sows an ounce 
of seed to take care of each four to six acres 
which he intends to plant. So the average cost 
of Gold Dollar seed is 20^ per acre. 
If the use of 20^ worth of Gold Dollar seed 
returns you $7.00 more than other varieties, 
Annie Smith proudly exhibits her prize-winning Gold 
Dollar Tobacco. 
they are worth their weight in gold. We have 
had hundreds of letters from and interviews 
with Gold Dollar customers during the past six 
years. Almost without exception they have 
found that Gold Dollar has returned them 
far more than $7.00 per acre above any 
other variety. In many instances it has brought 
them $50.00 to $200.00 per acre more than the 
varieties they have been planting. 
The best posted tobacco experts in the Bright 
Belt know that Gold Dollar has, since its intro¬ 
duction in 1931, contributed many millions of 
dollars to the profits of the tobacco growers 
of the eastern south. 
The writer believes that the question might 
well be raised: Are Coker’s Gold Dollar seed 
worth their weight in diamonds? 
Box 173, Rt. No. 2, Benson, N. C. 
Mr. David R. Coker, President, 
Hartsville, S. C. 
Dear Sir: 
As a 15-year old member of the 4-H Club, I have worked hard 
during the past tobacco season trying to capture a scholarship 
offered by the Smithfield Tobacco Board of Trade to the Club 
boy or girl who makes the most money off one acre of tobacco. 
My father bought Coker Gold Dollar tobacco seed and sowed 
his plant bed. I used some of these plants to set out my acre 
of tobacco and 8-3-3 fertilizer under it. Although dry weather 
came, my tobacco thrived and was one of the prettiest fields in 
this section. 
I have sold all my tobacco except the 10 lbs. which I exhibited 
at the Johnston County Fair. With this tobacco, I won three 
out of the eight prizes offered. I gathered 1,180 lbs. of tobacco 
from my acre plot which I have sold for $394.09 clear of the 
$59.16 which takes in all the expenses of raising and marketing 
it. 
My father has made the best crop of tobacco this year that he 
has ever made. He wishes to join me in saying “Never plant 
substitute seed—always sow the real seed that you get when you 
buy from Coker.” 
Sincerely Yours, 
