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By Kate Galbraith
Globe Correspondent / September 25, 2006

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SWEETWATER, Texas -- Like his father and grandfather before him, Johnny Ussery has always been a cattleman, tending 100 head -- and a few small oil wells -- on his parched, 2,500-acre ranch in the West Texas flatlands. Last January, however, Ussery decided to ``change with the times." (Full article: 1007 words)

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