March 14 
i9o 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Winesap and York Imperial Apples. 
D. O. M., Falls Church, Va.—C. M. E., 
of Amherst, Va., is very much mixed on 
the Winesap and York Imperial apples ; 
they are very different — different in 
color, shape, flavor and appearance, and 
also in the growth of the trees. The 
York Imperial is correctly described by 
Downing, and has two names—York Im¬ 
perial and Johnson’s Fine Winter, sup¬ 
posed to have originated in York County, 
Pa. The apple is much larger than the 
Winesap, and a better keeper. There are, 
probably, more York Imperial trees sold 
from southern nurseries than any other 
variety grown. Single orchards in this 
section contain 1,500 trees of that va¬ 
riety alone, and it is almost incredible 
that any one knowing anything about 
the apples of eastern Virginia, should 
have fallen into the error that C. M. E. 
has. 
The '• Knack " in Farminq. 
E. D. G., Ashburnham, Mass. —I was 
much interested in B. G.’s article, page 
23 , and think that he has stated the facts 
of the case so far as he goes. I had a 
grand crop of potatoes (over 500 bushels 
per acre on the best) on worn-out soil, 
and thought of making a report of meth¬ 
ods, results, etc. But other accounts 
began to come in, and I soon began to 
see about as B. G. does. Such low es¬ 
timates of cost of production will work 
evil, not only to potato growers, by in¬ 
ducing those not now in the business to 
engage therein, but also to a large pro¬ 
portion of the inexperienced who are 
persuaded to try growing potatoes fox- 
market, whether they come from the 
city, or have been engaged in other 
branches of farming. The man not 
familiar with potato growing, who reads 
that potatoes ai-e grown for 10 cents a 
bushel, and jxxst how it is done, and so 
thinks to go and do likewise, will fail 
19 times out of 20. There is an intuitive 
faculty, a knack, acquired by these ex¬ 
ceptionally successful specialist farmers, 
not to be acquired by reading what 
othei-s have done ; but only by years of 
labor and actual experience in the field. 
Suppose some eminent physician who 
has become wonderfully successful in the 
tx-eatment of a certain class of diseases, 
should write a book giving an honest ac¬ 
count of his methods, remedies used, etc., 
and (who ever heard of a doctor being 
such a fool) should add that he easily 
cleared $5,000 yearly. Think you that 
reading the book would enable any man, 
however smart, to do the same thing ? 
No sensible man would expect any such 
thing, but would know at once that, after 
he had learned all the book contained, 
there was something else to be acquired, 
and that something else is a vital neces¬ 
sity if one is to equal either the great 
physician, or the farmer who has become 
the great specialist. Many men have 
not the qualities necessary for the physi¬ 
cian or farmer, but may be very success¬ 
ful in some other calling. Very few 
kinds of business can be successfully 
conducted on a large scale by one who 
did not begin in a small way. 
Hints On Road Making. 
H. M. Engle, Lancaster County, Pa. 
_The trend of public sentiment is, evi¬ 
dently, toward the betterment of public 
roads. In some localities, considerable 
has been accomplished, but comparing 
it with what should, and no doubt will, 
be done, it seems like a “ drop in the 
bucket.” In some of the countries which 
have been improving the roads for hund¬ 
reds of years, they should be, and are, 
far in advance of ours, but since we are 
in a fair way to follow suit, it should 
not require half a century to have our 
roads equal to those in any other coun- 
ry. If the mass of our citizens who 
travel the roads would make a close cal- 
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