The Fremont County record. [volume] (Canon City, Colo.) 1877-18??, 1883-07-07
A. suAcoN.s FARM.

A person may live at Canon long time
and have no conception of the many nice
places within n few ininutes'walk, unless
he starts out and hunts them up.
We have lived here two and . half years,
and didn't know until the other day that
A. Macon, Esq, was an extensive farmer,
as well as lawyer. We knew he had a
nice, comfortable brick house, surrounded
by shade and fruit trees, down near the de-
pot, and we had heard that he had several
acres of fruit of different kinds, and that
he sold large quantities of cabbage every
year; but where those acres of fruit were,
and where those cabbages were raised we
had no definite idea So the other day-it
was on Sunday aftcrnoon-we, in company
with Captain Rocl1afeilow and DR.. Gray,
went down there to see what we could see.
Ihe mercury was Standing ut 1902 in the
shade, and when We got down to MIR.
Rudd's, and saw his yard of dense shade, it
was inviting that we turned in, but as
the yard was flooded with water we con-
cluded he was fixing for Baptist services
that afternoon, and not desiring to disturb
the meeting we proceeded. Arriving at
Z Mr.. Macon's we found the lord of the
manor at home, and his brother, Thomas
Macon, Esq, of Denver, was also there.
They kindly escorted US over the place,
/ and we found that to find Mr.. Macon's
farm 1t Is only necessary TO descend to
lower level, just back of the house, and
passing through fine grove of large shade
I trees, you come upon as fine fields of oats
and corn Us one would wish to see. Mr.
| Macon has fifty acres of very fine farming
! land, nearly all of which is in oats, corn
and garden vegetables, and fruit. Mr.. Coy
kendall, whose acquaintance we first made
| in Lake county, in the fall of 1852, is doing
I the farming this year, and he is proud-as
well he may be-of his crop. We found
| him in cabbage patch, irrigating; or, ra-
/ ther, he was looking at some water running
down some burrows between the rows of
/ cabbage. We came pretty nearly forgetting
I that IL was Sunday, that time. Wen not
! give you away, Jack. We were informed
I that there were only 10000 cibhages grow
I ing in the field; some were heading up
nicely, while the late cabbage had but re-
| Gently been set out. Stepping out from
among the cabbage into the oats Jack
| pulled up some, and stood them up beside
/ Thomas Macon, and it was difficult to tell
which was the taller. There are several
acres Of grapes, raspberries and gooseber-
1 rics, well laden with fruit; an extensive
| hedge of wild plum trees, rs full of half
| grown plums as they can hold, and several
| hundred iruit trees among the oats, which
/ appeared, at distance, TO he doing well :;
\ We didn't attempt to get through those
| thick, high oats for a closer inspection. We
! began toeNperience choking sensations, and
| supposed they were produced by the heat !;
but just then Mr.. Macon pointed out a
patch of Jerusalem artichokos, and the
matter was satisfactorily explained. Gus
1 Macon killed gnrtcr-snake. two and one
I half or three feet long, remarking that as
that WAS the first snake he had seen this
! season, and, ns he had killed it, he wonld
/ have good luck this year Then he and Tom
hung the snake up ON n post, saying that
we would have rain in four days, and the
| longer the snake the more rain. We hope
/ Gus will have good luck, and, as it always
Z rains on the Fourth OF July. which will be
/ the last Of the four days in which that dead
I snake, on post, is to bring rain, we sup
4 pose their supeTStitjOns may come true this
time. This is written on Monday but by
/ the time our readers see it they will know
I whether or not dead snake hung on a
/ post, is more cfiicacious as a promoter of
/ rain than the prayers OF the righteous. On
/ our way out Of the field Captain Rockafcl-
I low cSpicd some very fine heads OF cabbage
] lettuce, and pulled couple of them to
| take home with him. There is one thing
/ abcut the captain that exceeds his appe-
| tite Tor the good things of this world,
and that is his politencSS- On his way home
meeting charming and lovely lady, he in
/ sisted upon her accepting one of his heads
of lettuce, as n bouquet. Bat to return to
our story: We got out Of the field, and up
3 TO the house, without further accident o
incident, and found Mrs. Macon and her
I daughters on the lawn, under the shade
4 trees, and we joined the group. Thomas.
/ Macon soon opened a spelling school. and
} tried, among other things, to teach the
\ young Indies TO spell gnat: - but they in
I sisted on spelling il i" Matt with a capital
/ y, from which we inferred that the kind of
Nat they were thinking of was of n
different species from the Enat he was
/ trying 10 get them TO spell. The doctor is
interested in catching some new airs 1--WE
came near writing it heirs, and finE.lly i'm
duccd Miss Fannie TO favor him with some
on the piano. Her playing indicates years
of practice. She plays the most difficult
/ pieces with an accuracy and easy graceful
ness which can he acquired Except by such
| musical prodigics rs Blind Tom ouly by
! years OF hard toll The music was pleas
ant winding up of our afternoon mmble,
and we will let it end this rambling de-
scription of what we saw and did,
! NiSUEACT0NiEs