Pastoral personal ad is a big hit

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With circulation scandals and lackluster ad sales, newspapers and magazines already have a pocketful of worries. Now comes a threat to the print medium’s classified ads: farmers who plant personal ads in their fields. Case in point is New York cattle-and-crops farmer Pieter DeHond, a 41-year-old divorced father of two. He planted a lovelorn message in his cow pasture using 50-foot (15-meter) letters made from corn stalks. The pastoral plea states: “S.W.F Got-2 [heart] Farm-n.”

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