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He swears it works and judging by the absence of pests during a hot and sweaty ride last week, he’s stumbled onto the secret formula.
Alson grew up on a farm when four-footed equine power still ranked ahead of tractors. Without agriculture’s mechanical revolution, he might have stayed in the fields but when the horses left, so did Alson. For a while, he tried carpentry and then switched to stonemasonry, learning from Charlie Sisk, one of the county’s masters, according to Alson.
“When Charlies was ready to retire, I knew enough to go into the stone trade on my own. I had horses and cattle the whole time, though. We bought them, bred them, broke them.”
He managed the livestock with help from his youngest son, the only one of his children to share a love for
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