OUR 
WOOL 
GIFT TO THE 
GROWERS 
HE Leaksville Woolen Mills enjoys a wide and favorable 
reputation all through the great wool-growing belt of North 
Carolina and adjoining States. Its methods of conducting 
business have proven, by long experience, to be of equal 
benefit to both the wool growers and the company. The 
primary feature of the business of this company is a fair interchange of 
goods,—a system based upon the good old institution of barter. 
Barter is as old as humanity. It was in vogue centuries before money 
was invented, money being, in fact, but an artificial convenience for the 
expansion of an exchange of commodities. Barter remains to-day the 
most equitable way of trading in many parts of the world. 
Thousands of farmers, many of them hundreds of miles distant from 
Leaksville, deal with us annually. We naturally wish to establish closer 
relations of confidence and good-will with these patrons, to encourage 
them in the profitable field of wool-growing, and to make the name of the 
Leaksville woolen mills a household word. 
To this end we have published, at a large outlay, the Wool Book 
of the Middle South. It will be found, upon examination, of great 
practical value in every home. It not only deals with the important subjects 
of wool and its improved production, but it contains a great variety of 
facts which everyone should know—facts bearing upon the conditions of 
daily life upon the farm. It is intended as a helper, an authority and a 
friend in time of need. It should be treasured as one of the most valued 
books in the house and always kept in sight where it can be instantly 
found when wanted. 
The Wool Book of the Middle South is not sold. It is published 
only for those who deal with this company under conditions elsewhere 
stated. 
If it happily serves its purpose of keeping this company and its busi¬ 
ness offers constantly before those who receive it, the care, labor and 
cost of producing it will have been well expended. 
Very respectfully 
THE LEAKSVILLE WOOLEN MILLS. 
May ist, 1900. Leaksville, N. C. 
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