Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-01-29
The Nsck%rs0n Fertilizer and CilrM
cnI Works.

In the year 1872 F. n. Nickerson
s. Company first commenced the
manufacture of fertilizer at Oxford.
this county. At that time they ex
nected to confine their sales t.
Talbot and principally among those
who were personally acquainted with
them and the first year they put
upon the market only a few tom.
but as the quality of their goods be
come known they found the location
ut Oxford inaccessible and thel'
capacity wholly inadequate to the
increasing demand.
They moved 10 Easton in 1879 an
rected factory on the Point Roa
wherein the present immense factory
stands, about IS feet front and 165
feet deep.
From the first their facilities were
of the best and their capacity sooi
amounted to 5000 tons per year. Tb'
new factory WIS equipped with q 3;
horse power engine and Designating
mills, rolls. screens, elevators and al,
necessary machinery for the success
full conduct of their business.
In 1891 the firm name of FIJI. Nicker-
son g. Co., was abolished and a st"' k
Company formed which has sin, e
been operated under the name Il
The Nickerson Fertilizer Company
The company has some of the lead
ing men of the county in its Board OF
Directors, and the men under who's
watchful eye the large concern is op
Grated are among our best and mos
thorough going citizens and business
men.
The Board of Directors is composed
of r. b. Dixon, G. e. Nickerson, Chae.
R. Wooters, VIM R. Martin and W
q Adkins. The officers are K. B.
Dixon. president; G. G. Nickerson
manager; Chas R. Wooters, Secty.
The huge plant as it now stands, II
probably the largest on the Eastern
Shore, and its rapid growth is strik
ing illustration of what industry, i'll
diligence. and reiab lily eau do.
The factory building has a fronfa.
nu the Point road of 230 feet. inrlu
ding both the fertilizer and chemica
works. Numerous additions and III
nexes have been built to the origiua
factory as the demands of q constan
ly growing business required them
and the whole factory may be de.crib
ed as seven separate contlguou-
buildings opening into each other,
but of different depths AMI heights.
and aggregating the front widtl
given.
The capacity of the factory is 10000
TONS a wear. and its output is aIi-
proaching that amount The d.
rpand for their products is increasin.
every year; and the territory in which
it is used is constantly enlarging.
1t is an interesting fact that no Ter
ritory in which the Nirkerson goo"
has ever been introduced has evrI
been abandoned; and there is no TX
ception to the circumstance that Ill
every locality where they have been
tried there is an increasing use year
by year
Every minute detail in the manu-
facture is conducted with scieutih,
and practiced knowledge of this in
tricate business. Farmers and truck
era who have used these fertilizers re-
alize the advantage in using goods oil
this cnardcleI III Phci0ieiiSO w mp
hazard and inexperienced mixing OF
feruiIizing ingredienCs.--zThey have
supplied majority of the farmers -
this and adjoining counties in the
past and propose doing so in the
future.
This is an industry of which Easton
and Talbot may well feel proud, and
the appreciation of the farmers is
aptIy shown by the large quantity OF
goods sold to them, and the additions
that are being built TO the plant TO
keep up continuous demand for the
Eastern Shore Dom este Guano. High
Grade Vegetable Compound and
other superior brands.
Special attention is given to high
grace fertilizers and no pains spared
In keeping their various brands up to
the standard, that has won fame for
their goods. The expressions of those
who have used their fertilizers for
years might be condensed into one
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