. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. A view of a portion of the Tucy a good deal of cleaning up of L€ uplands. Also on his program the levelling off of high edges : some of the bogs, the center of lese being solid peat and bogs ive settled over the years, leav- ig rims too high for good vine rowlth. Tihe company owns a very )nsid€rable area of wioodland and m put in 50 more acres in the iture if this becomes desirable. "I really love these bogs and "oods and woudd rather be up here '^orkinig than doing any other kind f worfl," he says, and there eems no
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. A view of a portion of the Tucy a good deal of cleaning up of L€ uplands. Also on his program the levelling off of high edges : some of the bogs, the center of lese being solid peat and bogs ive settled over the years, leav- ig rims too high for good vine rowlth. Tihe company owns a very )nsid€rable area of wioodland and m put in 50 more acres in the iture if this becomes desirable. "I really love these bogs and "oods and woudd rather be up here '^orkinig than doing any other kind f worfl," he says, and there eems no doubt by the way he ays it that he means it. Operates Cranberry Company He was married in 1948 to he former Marion Besse of E^st Varehiam, wihose grandfather, the ate and formerly well-known Jeorge M. Besse, with others had ?uilt bogs. These bogs, in 11 dif- erent pieces, make up the Maple ^ark Cranberry Bogs and are located in the Maple Sipring area n the Plymlouth Woods in Ware- tam. Now Mr. and Mrs. C. Paul S>acy own the controlling interest n the properties and it is his re- ; ponisibility to operate and make ih«m produce. The bogs were budlt Bogs at harvest. about 60 years ago. Boigs are set to about one-half Early Blacks with maybe a quarter Hlowes and the rest "fancies,'' varieties wihich growers of an earlier day planted as they brought premiium prices. The bogs are fliowed from big Glen Charlie ^"q'llligilll^i;il^!illIlllllHII!IB[llliailllBI!IIB!IIIBllliIB;i (Cranberries Photo) pond into reservoirs owned by the Maple Park Company. Flowage is by gravity and the water cannot be returned, but goes inthe East Wareham Mill pond. There was a screenhouse there but this burned about four years ago. ;illB!lilB!l!IHIIIH!IH!IIIBIIIH!IIIB1IIIHIIHIIIIBIIIIf£. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the o
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