. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. MAKEPEACE STORY Continued from Page 7 Maurice and his wife now live at Piney Point in Marion. The couple haVe a daughter, now Mrs. Marshall Severance of Worcester, Mass., and a son Christopher 18, recently grad- uated from Tabor. Maurice be- longs to few social clubs, but is a member of the Cape Cod Cranberry Growers' Association and the Southeastern Cranberry Club which meets at Rochester. For recreation he pays golf at the Kittansett Club in Marion ^^ here he is a member. He attends the Congregation- al Church of Marion, of which
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. MAKEPEACE STORY Continued from Page 7 Maurice and his wife now live at Piney Point in Marion. The couple haVe a daughter, now Mrs. Marshall Severance of Worcester, Mass., and a son Christopher 18, recently grad- uated from Tabor. Maurice be- longs to few social clubs, but is a member of the Cape Cod Cranberry Growers' Association and the Southeastern Cranberry Club which meets at Rochester. For recreation he pays golf at the Kittansett Club in Marion ^^ here he is a member. He attends the Congregation- al Church of Marion, of which Mrs. Makepeace is a member. When he went to work for ADM his first job was to learn where the Makepeace proper- ties are, and to get oriented to the whole cranberry picture. The bogs are located in Plym- outh and Barnstable Counties. Barnstable County (which is Cape Cod) was where A. D. Makepeace first started in tlie cranberry business. He was a farmer at Hyannis, for one thing growing turnips and onions. He later came up to develop bogs in Plymouth County. Today Maurice's "particular baliwick is Barnstable ; Responsibility has tobe divided, and while the Cape is his special responsibility he has to keep informied and take part in all the general cranberry opera- tions. For the ADM Company it is "Russ" who is secretary' of Ocean Spray, who is closer to the "big co-op" and attends to the ADM Company's interests there. The ADM Company sells its crop through Ocean Spray. The Company bogs are in Wareham, Rochester, Middle- boro, Carver and Plymouth in Plymouth County and in Barn- stable County, Barnstable, Yar- mouth, Harwich, Brewster, Mashpee and Falmouth, ADM as Employer The company employs six people at the company office on Main Street, Warehara, a hand- some and well designed brick structure. There is additional help in the harvest period. There are 12 foremen alto- gether, with two of these on the Cape and they have their help- ers. Yea
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