That’s love: a truly corny personal ad
Published: August 19, 2005
A farmer looking for love planted a unique personal ad. Using corn stalks and an open cow pasture he spelled out: “S.W.F Got-2 (love symbol) Farm’n.”
Single white females are then pointed to his house by a 1,000-foot-long arrow below the message.
“It only took me about an hour - I did it with a corn planter in May,” Pieter DeHond said Wednesday as he removed weeds from the 18-acre field. “I was just horsing around.”
DeHond said he decided on an impulse to use up the extra corn seed - in place of a newspaper ad - left after spring planting at his 200-acre Pleasure Acres farm in western New York.
“I wouldn’t place a personal ad in the paper. To me it seems desperate,” he added, laughing. “This is more of a fun thing. I put this out in a field where nobody could see it unless you flew over it.”
Running a business and looking after his two teenagers doesn’t leave a lot of room for socializing, the 41-year-old divorced father said.
His corn stalk appeal, featured this week in his hometown Daily Messenger newspaper, has already drawn quite a few phone calls and e-mails.
“I’d be lying if I told you I wasn’t a little proud,” DeHond said.
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