RESOURCEFUL WOMAN
ONE WOMAN FARM, by Betty Lussier; Jonathan Cape, English price 18/-. MRS BETTY LUSSIER, Canadian by birth, American by adoption, Spanish by marriage, 38 years of age, and mother of four boys, is obviously a woman of great vitality and immense resourcefulness. She grew up and worked hard on a farm in Maryland; and when the war came she served in the Air Transport Auxiliary doing ferry service for the Royal Air Force. But this. book doesn’t dwell on that. It’s about her suddenly conceived idea of growing maize, from American hybrid séed corn, in Spanish Morocco, an idea she at once translated into action. On a half-share contract with the Serra Agricultural Company, with modern American machinery, she plants and harvests one thousand acres of corn ‘which, yielding a fifty-bushel crop sold to the British Ministry of Food, is a tremendous financial success for both parties. But the Spanish manager of the Company would have no more of her. Why? Betty had too many democratic ideas about better housing and better conditions generally for the farm hands-mostly Arabs. Most) disturbing jdeas in the view of the Spanish land-
owners.
L.J.
W.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1052, 23 October 1959, Page 14
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