001.jpg){kind=link}
For over 100 years The Farmers and Planters Company in Salisbury has been an integral service provider to the Agricultural Community. The Article below appeared in the Wicomico News on July 1, 1915. It offers information about Farmers and Planters Co., its beginnings and its successes.
WICOMICO NEWS - JULY 1, 1915
Farmers & Planters Co.
COMPOUNDERS OF
"TRUCKERS," "FISH," SPECIAL FISH MIXTURE
DEALERS IN
Fertilizer, Chemicals, Lime, Hair, Brick, Hard and Soft Coal
BEST FARM IMPLEMENTS AND SEEDS
There is no class of business more necessary in a growing city and progressive agricultural section than that connected with the handling of lime, hair, brick, hard and soft coal, fertilizer chemicals, farm implements and seeds. In the Farmers & Planters Company, Salisbury has one of the most progressive concerns of its kind to be found in this section of the United States. Having all the prestige that only years of straightforward and fair dealing can confer, yet thoroughly modern in its methods, this concern now and for years past, the leading one of like character in this city, still retains the position it earned when it was organized.
The present company was formed in 1912, succeeding a concern bearing the same name which was conducted by Mr. Glen Perdue, who was the sole owner. Mr. Perdue against the competition of keen business rivals during his ten year connection with the house, developed it along lines that won the admiration of men familiar with this industry.
The Farmers & Planters' Company are compounders of "Truckers Fish Special Mixture" and are experts at mixing fertilizers. Their trade extends throughout the Peninsula. It handles such standard lines of farm machinery as the products of the John Deere Plow Company and International Harvester Company. Its machinery territory includes all of Wicomico County.
In its large warehouse in the rear of the office is carried a full line of machine repairs, stoves, etc., lime, hair and bricks handled by this concern have entered into the construction of many of the leading business houses and handsome residences in this section. Noted for its freedom from dirt and slate, the hard and soft coal distributed through the Farmers & Planters is sought by those who desire a product that gives the maximum heat.
The Officers of the Company are:
D. J. Ward - President,
William M. Cooper - Vice President
W. P. Ward - Secretary, Treasurer and Manager
Directors:
D. J. Ward
W. P. Ward
Glen Perdue
William M. Cooper
L. Atwood Bennett
W. F. Allen
E. D. Bailey
S. E. Shockley
A. C. Moore
C. M. Peters
Louis Morgan
Mr. D. J. Ward is connected with the J. E. Bowden Company, lumber merchants. All of the other officers and directors of the Farmers & Planters Company are public spirited and very progressive men of affairs who are ever ready and willing to help any cause for the advancement of old Salisbury.
Mr. W. P. Ward is the Vice President of the Peninsula Transit Company. Mr. William M. Cooper, the Vice President, is the Treasurer of the Peninsula Rapid Transit Company, and he is interested in a number of other enterprises too numerous to mention.
The Farmers & Planters Company is a most reliable concern and one that every farmer should keep in mind.
****
ARTICLE II
PAST LETTERHEADS OF FARMERS & PLANTERS CO.
POSTCARD 1922 with Farmers & Planters Original Location
F & P Southern States Advertising
1966 Wicomico Farm Bureau Picture
2009 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ARTICLE
F & P ADVERTISING THERMOMETER given by Mr. Eugene Parker
SOUTHERN STATES Egg Marketing Ad
Mid-Atlantic Certified Crop Advisor Award goes to Otto
Bird's Eye View of Early Mill Street
Old Picture of F & P Mill St. Area
2002 Susan W White Advertisement
Southern States Cooperative Logos.....
