Barter brides
Sir,—lt would appear that the young farmers of this country are being dictated to by prospective fathers-in-law in the matter of farming competence. To suggest, as does a television commercial, that this competence is dependent on the use of a particular brand of fertiliser and that the implied “brideprice” is contained by bags and transported on a truck, could be taken to imply that the future “rural romance” in this country will be based on a barter system. We wish to know if any single women of marriageable status would accept their value as a truck-load of wrapped fertiliser. — Yours, etc., L. F. BLACKWOOD, I. R. WHENMOUTH. March 20, 1985.
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Press, 23 March 1985, Page 20
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