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Slate's Good Seeds and Prompt Service, South Boston, Virginia 
SLATE'S SEED 
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LETTERS LIKE THESE 
SEND US YOUR PHOTO for this page. We will pay $1.00 for 
each photo that we can use. Also write us a letter telling your 
experience with Slate’s Seeds. 
Slate’s Seeds didn’t just happen. This business was founded by a man 
for a purpose and through three generations this purpose has been 
handed down from father to son. At the close of the Civil War, Major 
R. L. Ragland grew his first crop of tobacco seed. His son-in-law, W. C. 
Slate took up where Major Rag¬ 
land left off and finally handed 
MR. C. S. LEONARD 
The family group above contains Mr. 
C. S. Leonard of Thomasville, N. C., who 
says, “I have used your seed for the past 
four years and I am convinced that 
Slate’s Seeds are the best. I am enclos¬ 
ing a photo of my tobacco field, Slate’s 
Improved Gold Leaf. Nothing better can 
be found by me.” 
“We got one ounce of tobacco seed 
from you this year and sowed them by 
themselves, and the same day we sowed 
two other beds. The seed bought from 
you produced much the finest plants, so 
I am sure they are worth the price you 
MRS. D. D. McGHEE, 
Frederick Hall, Va. 
MR. PETTYBONE BOWERS 
Above is a photograph of Mr. Petty- 
bone Bowers of Watauga Valley, Tenn., 
and his patch of Improved White Burley 
tobacco grown from our seed. He writes, 
“It was the largest tobacco that I ever 
raised and everybody that saw it said 
it was the finest they ever saw.” Then 
a little later, he writes again, “I am 
sending you another order. From the 
seed that I ordered from you last season, 
I planted one-fourth acre and made 516 
pounds of tobacco and it brought me 
$220. It was the finest tobacco I ever 
saw. You know I sent you a picture of 
the patch some time ago.” 
MR. W. N. WILKERSON 
“I had a fellow to ask me why 1 
ordered from you when I could buy else¬ 
where so much cheaper. I said when I 
order from you I know what I am get¬ 
ting. I have been using your tobacco 
seed for the past ten or fifteen years and 
have found them to be what you claim.” 
W. N. WILKERSON, 
Cedar Grove, N. C. 
the business to his sons at his 
death. Today the fourth genera¬ 
tion is being trained in the tradi¬ 
tions of the Slates. We have all 
been born and reared in the tobacco 
seed business. We are all experts 
at our trade. Experience is the 
basis of quality. No book learning 
can take the place of this expe¬ 
rience handed down from father 
to son. Because of this Slate’s 
Seeds are better. 
MR. AND MRS. E. P. SMITH 
Here we have two good customers who 
know how to write a full recommenda¬ 
tion in a few words. The photograph 
here is of Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Smith, 
of Hiddenite, N. C., who say: “I can 
always depend on Slate’s Good Seed and 
quick service.” 
MR. NEALIE DAWES 
“I am sending you another order for 
some of your Improved White Burley 
tobacco seed. I tried it last year and 
won a $10.00 prize for the highest 
basket sold on the Lexington, Ky., loose 
leaf market up until Christmas.” 
NEALIE DAWES, 
Ingle, Ky. 
HARRY G. GALLOWAY 
“I will tell you what success I had 
with your Slate’s Improved White Burley 
tobacco seed this year with the worst 
drought ever in these parts. Had good 
growth, excellent color and sold it for 
$53.25 average which was the highest 
on the floor that day. I recommend your 
seed to all.” 
HARRY G. GALLOWAY, 
R. # 1, Cave City, Ky. 
Feb. 8, 1937. 
“I have been a user of Slate’s Seed 
for several years and I find them to be 
the best. There are none that will com¬ 
pare with Slate’s Seed. This is a photo 
of myself in my own tobacco patch. The 
picture was taken by my son. I find that 
your Cash tobacco is a greater success 
with me and my neighbors than any 
other variety.” 
Yours truly, 
T. S. HILL, 
Bennett, N. C. 
MR. T. S. HILL 
