Jerry Buchanon question....

The guy who got me started in "Mail Order" and "Remote Marketing" stuff (meaning; making money from selling stuff that did NOT require..."Face-To-Face" selling)...was Jerry Buchanon.

Jerry was a "Direct Sales Guy" (like me)...who got tired of selling stuff "Face-To-Face".....so....he decided to move away from the Big City into a "rural" area (He made enuff moolah from his Direct Sales "job" to afford to buy a farm in Wash State....back when homes with 40 acres were selling for $40,000 (1972) Nowadays, the SAME property would be in the $400,000 range)(Too bad Jerry isn't around to see the "price explosion the last 5 years)

Well....he gets all moved into his new home (with some acreage) and when he gets ready to start planting a garden in his new "rural" lifestyle...he discovers his property is INundated with......GOPHERS!

These critters have taken over his property. They've dug up all his tulip (and other bulbs)....they dig up and eat....anything he plants in his new garden.

So...Jerry....being a resourceful guy....calls his local "Ag Agent" and others who might be able to tell him how to get rid of these pests.

To NO avail.

So....one day....as he's driving down the road from town to his home....he happens to look over at the Golf Course Grounds....directly opposite from HIS property. He pulls his pickemup truck over on the shoulder and....looks right, at the Golf Course...with NO Gopher Holes.....beautiful fairways with NO Gopher Holes. Then he looks left....at his fields with LOTS of Gopher Holes with MOUNDS of dirt around each hole.

So....as a man of good intelligence....he decides to go talk to the person in charge of the Golf Course Fairways.

He finds this person and asks him a question;

"HOW do you keep Gophers and Moles out of YOUR property?"

The guy tells him. (As I recall....it was some kind of PLANT that kept them away.

So.....Jerry goes ahead and plants THE plant that "DRIVES THE GOPHERS AWAY"....and "KEEPS THEM AWAY"!

So....Jerry discovers that the Golf Course GroundsKeeper's solution...WORKS!

So....even though Jerry has enough money for he and his wifee to live out their days on his farm....he wants to let others know HOW he..... got rid of his Gopher and Mole problem. So...he takes out an ad in a national Farm Magazine.

The Ad reads;

"Rid Your Property Of Gophers and Moles, Forever! Send $3 to Jerry Buchanon, Box xyz, Vancouver, WA"

Now....the "Ad-Taker" at the magazine tells Jerry that HIS Ad will appear in the 3rd month following, edition...which means....he should not expect to receive ANY responses for at least 2 months (which is normal...for any publication)

So....Jerry goes about his life of "living" on his "farm".

Then....one day....about 2 mos later....he gets a call from someone at the local post office....who says;

"Hey Jerry! Get yer buns down here to da Post Office! We got THREE BAGS of mail fer ya!"

So...Jerry gets down to the PO and sees....now FOUR BAGS of envelopes...all adressed to HIM.

Well....Jerry has just discovered that HUNDREDS of people want to know "HOW TO RID THEIR PROPERTY OF GOPHERS AND MOLES...FOREVER!"

Thus....THIS is the start of Jerry's intro into "Mail Order Sales".

This expererience inspired Jerry to start up a Newsletter (The TOWERS Club) and to write 2 Books on "Mail Order". (Jerry built up a HUGE subscriber base PRE-Internet....and passed away a few yrs ago) (And, again...Jerry was a HUGE inspiration to ME to get into and make money from..."Remote-Marketing)

When I moved to Oregon in 1990....after being a subscriber to his newsletter since 1977 (and had many Phone conversations with him)....I went up to meet Jerry in person and found him to be a wonderful human being.

So....it NOW comes down to my reason WHY....I instigated this dissertation in the first place....which is...

....I happened to run into an old friend at lunch today and he told me he is having one HECK of a time with "Gophers and Moles" this year. He's "tried everything" and nothing works.

Soooo.....I am appealing to some of the "Ol'-Timers" here...who may remember....WHAT....Jerry's solution for "getting rid of Gophers and Moles Forever"....was.

I can't find "Jerry's solution"...which was simply ONE PAGE.

So....if anyone HERE can remember what it was....please respond here or send me an email so we can try Jerry's Solution.

Thanks for your help,

Don Alm

http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/l...029742.html?53

"When a large field was made into a shopping mall behind our house we had a terrible time with gophers moving into our yard. Got rid of them for good by planting a couple "Gopher Plants" (Euphorbia lathyris - Caper Spurge). Supposedly the roots and the seeds are poisonous/noxious to gophers. Didn't appear to have dead gophers in our yard - just disappeared gophers! These plants are annuals but always self-seed so that even twenty years later some gopher plants always pop up here and there. We save the seeds and give them away to relatives and friends who have gopher problems and they always quickly grow, driving away the gophers every time. The plant grows to a height of around 4 feet but only 1 foot diameter (like a tower) and will self-seed by falling over as it dries out in Fall. Our yard is super hard clay with minimal watering done through the hot dry summers as we have no sprinkler system. Believe me, anyone can grow this plant. I would absolutely recommend this plant to anyone with gophers."

Thanks for the info Stewart. We'll see if this will do the job. Plus, one of our City Parks has a "Gopher Hole" about every 20 feet. City will have to rope off the Park so kids don't step in the holes and break a leg. Maybe this stuff will start working before Memorial Day.

Don Alm

Don why don't you find a Golf Course Ground. They all look good and ask them. You may have a new product. A lot of people need this information even today. One of my neightbors use big rat traps. That is messy. But it worked.

What did Stewart tell you Don, common share.

I have developed a formula that kills slugs. I hate them things. It took many years of experimenting and I have finally developed something that works.

And my wife hates those suckers too...... One night I went out to feed our dogs. The BIGGEST slug I have ever seen in my life was sitting on the edge of the food bowl. I mean this guy looked like a snake! SO I got some salt and salted him good. AHHHH he was gooey, slimy and just about to slim away. But I decided to call my wife before I dumped him to show her how big he was. "Gross" was all she said. Then I decided to knock him out of the bowl by flipping the edge of the bowl with my foot. The slug went flying up and landed right between my wife's eyes. SHE flipped! Went running around the yard screaming as this half eaten salted slug was hanging from her bangs. The funniest thing I have ever seen. And Yeah we would have won the $100,000 video award if I had it on camera.

Well anyway.....

For some background: I've used beer in small dishes (my english bulldog always drank the beer) I guess that's why they call them "english"... I tried salt but it burnt the grass and killed my plants. You name it and I have tried it. UNTIL I developed the killer recipe.......

NOW: should I sell a "hotsheet" selling the recipe to my secret sauce or should I just bottle and sell the sauce? Its all organic and will not hurt your animals, plants, kids, etc...... So I don't have to worry about chemical issues.
And its relatively inexpensive to make.

So....... what should I do?

thanks...
Pappy

Just a couple of days ago, I was telling my son about pouring salt on slugs (because he heard about it in a Weird Al song) but we don't have any here in AZ and couldn't find any videos of it anywhere.

I'm thinking you should record something and put it on YouTube for the "educational" value - LOL

Jim

Salt works on leeches too.

Originally Posted by James Anthony

Just a couple of days ago, I was telling my son about pouring salt on slugs (because he heard about it in a Weird Al song) but we don't have any here in AZ and couldn't find any videos of it anywhere.

I'm thinking you should record something and put it on YouTube for the "educational" value - LOL

Jim