1914. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
443 
APPLES ON LONG ISLAND. 
Part III. 
Fanny: trees good growers, fruit red, 
medium good quality, season late Sum¬ 
mer, bears well biennially, not desirable. 
Gravenstein: trees fair growers, fruit 
striped red, fine quality, good bearer, sea¬ 
son Summer; desirable. 
Gano: trees good growers, fruit red, 
similar to Black Ben Davis, quality fair, 
productive; not as desirable as Ben 
Davis. 
Grimes Golden: trees fair to poor 
growers, fruit large, yellow, quality fine, 
season late Fall, productive biennially, 
recommended for a yellow apple, especial¬ 
ly for home orchards, desirable for com¬ 
mercial use. 
Rhode Island Greening: trees good 
growers, fruit yellow, large, fine quality, 
productive on older trees, one of the best 
apples for main trees, though it comes 
in bearing late. 
Northwestern Greening: trees good 
growers, fruit yellow, large, bears well 
biennially, not near as desirable as 
Rhode Island Greening. 
Newtown Spitzenburg: trees good 
growers, fruit small, red, season Win¬ 
ter, produces well but not desirable; 
sometimes planted for Esopus Spitzen¬ 
burg; beware of this. 
Ilubbardston : trees good growers, fruit 
red, large, good quality, productive, de¬ 
sirable for either main trees or filler. 
Ingram: trees fair growers, fruit red, 
medium to small, fair quality, productive, 
season Winter, desirable as filler only, 
as it bears young. 
Jefferis: trees good growers, fruit red, 
medium size, good quality, productive, 
season Fall, desirable as filler only. 
Jonathan: trees good growers, fruit 
red, medium to small, best quality, pro¬ 
ductive, season early Winter, very de¬ 
sirable as main trees or fillers, as it bears 
young. 
King: trees good growers, fruit large, 
red, fine quality, poor bearers when 
young, but promises well as trees grow 
older; desirable as main trees only. 
Longfield: trees fair growers, fruit 
yellow, small, season Fall, very product¬ 
ive ; not desirable. 
Long Stem: trees fair growers, fruit 
yellow, small, not desirable. 
Lawver: trees good growers, fruit red, 
size medium, fair quality, not desirable. 
Lord Suffield: tree poor grower, fruit 
yellow, large to very large, fair quality, 
season Fall, not desirable. 
Maiden Blush: trees good growers, 
fruit yellow, medium to small, good qual¬ 
ity, season Fall, desirable as filler as 
bears young. 
McIntosh: trees good growers, fruit 
red, medium to large, fine quality, pro¬ 
ductive, desirable as main trees and as 
fillers. 
Mammoth Blacktwig: trees good grow¬ 
ers, fruit red, medium, poor quality, not 
desirable. 
Missouri Pippin: trees good growers, 
fruit red, small to medium, very pro¬ 
ductive, bears young, desirable as filler 
only; quality fair, late keeper. 
Monmouth Pippin: trees good grow¬ 
ers, fruit yellow, not productive, medium 
to large size, not desirable. 
Martha Crab: trees fair growers, fruit 
red, large for crab, good quality, desir¬ 
able as crab apple. 
Mann: trees good growers, fruit green, 
poor quality, small, not desirable. 
Newtown Pippin: 30 trees planted 
Fall of 1902, no apples yet; poor grower, 
some good trees in neighborhood but not 
large or productive; not desirable. 
Northern Spy: trees fairly good grow¬ 
ers, but practically no fruit yet; fruit 
red, large, fine quality; trees have no 
appearance of setting fruit yet; desirable 
only for main trees. 
Oliver: trees good growers, fruit red, 
medium to small, irregular, poor qual¬ 
ity, shy bearer, not desirable. 
Ohio Nonpareil: trees good growers, 
fruit yellow with red. large, season Fall, 
shy bearers; not desirable. 
Pewaukee: trees good growers, fruit 
red, medium to large, fair quality, not 
heavy bearer, good but not desirable. 
Porter: trees fruit growers, fruit yel¬ 
low, fair quality, medium to small, pro¬ 
ductive, late Summer apple, tender; not 
desirable. 
Primate: trees fair growers, fruit me¬ 
dium to large, fair quality, productive, 
season late Summer, sweet; not desir¬ 
able. PETER ELBERT NOSTRAND. 
The Cadillac Company has no 
intention of marketing a 
six cylinder car 
T HE Cadillac Motor Car Company 
has always believed that there 
are so many good features in 
the Cadillac Car, that its advertising 
space could be best utilized exclusive¬ 
ly in acquainting the public with those 
advantages. 
We regret, however, that the occa¬ 
sion arises which makes it appear de¬ 
sirable for us to depart, temporarily, 
from that policy. 
Inasmuch as it is not possible for 
us to control the “mouth to mouth” 
advertising with which we are favored, 
and inasmuch as that gratuitous pub¬ 
licity may sometimes contain ele¬ 
ments of inaccuracy, unintentionally 
perhaps, on the part of the authors, 
we feel that we would not perform 
the duty which we owe to the public 
and the duty which we owe to our¬ 
selves, if we did not correct any 
misunderstandings or misconceptions 
which may exist concerning the meth¬ 
ods, policies and plans of this com¬ 
pany. 
The pre-eminent position of the 
Cadillac Car as the “Standard of the 
World,” its recognition as the crite¬ 
rion of excellence in practical con¬ 
struction, are not matters of mere 
chance. 
For eleven years the Cadillac has 
been manufactured and marketed 
upon well defined principles. Adher¬ 
ence to those principles has been the 
dominant factor in Cadillac success. 
The Cadillac has never aspired to 
ideals set by others; it makes its own 
ideals and raises them higher and 
higher. 
The Cadillac has never striven after 
the achievements of other plants; it is 
a school and a model unto itself. 
The Cadillac has never been obliged 
to make apologies for its product. It 
has never been obliged to smother its 
past, nor to discredit it by wiping the 
slate clean and beginning all over 
again. 
The immaterial and the impractical, 
the fad and the fallacy, the delusion 
and the shallow “talking point” have 
no chapter in the “Story of the Cadil¬ 
lac.” 
The “Story of the Cadillac” is the 
story of that mechanical and commer¬ 
cial advancement which makes for 
permanency. The Cadillac product 
has been only that which its makers 
knew to be right; that which its mak¬ 
ers know would satisfy and give to 
the purchaser “value received” in 
abundant measure. 
The policy of the Cadillac Company 
has ever been to avoid exaggeration 
and overdrawn statements. Its policy 
has ever been to under-claim rather 
than to over-claim. 
The Cadillac Company is gratified 
that the public feels secure in accept¬ 
ing Cadillac representations at their 
full worth. These representations are 
so accepted because the Cadillac Com¬ 
pany has never misled and because 
the public could always expect and 
has always received more than was 
offered. 
The Cadillac Car of to-day has be¬ 
hind it the experience gleaned in the 
successful production of the seventy- 
five thousand Cadillacs which have 
preceded it—by far the greatest num¬ 
ber of high grade motor cars produced 
by any one manufacturer in the world. 
The Cadillac Company is ever alert 
—its ear is ever to the ground; it feels 
the throb of the public pulse. Yet 
never has it yielded to clamor by giv¬ 
ing endorsement to principles which 
would take advantage of the uninitiat¬ 
ed or the uninformed, even though 
temporary benefits might accrue. 
The experimental division of the 
Cadillac Company is not excelled in 
the motor car industry. We do not 
believe it is even equalled. 
Every design, every appliance, every 
idea, every principle offered which has 
a semblance of merit, is subjected to 
the most gruelling tests. 
For every idea or feature adopted 
or considered worthy of the Cadillac 
seal of approval, scores are discarded. 
One reason why most of the new 
ideas of inventors and manufacturers 
are first offered to the Cadillac Com¬ 
pany is because these inventors and 
manufacturers realize that with the 
Cadillac seal of approval their future 
is practically certain. 
As an example, take the electrical 
system of automatic cranking, lighting 
and ignition, first introduced by the 
Cadillac Company and now used al¬ 
most universally. 
Take also the two-speed axle intro¬ 
duced into the present Cadillac, and 
which engineering authorities on both 
sides of the Atlantic are predicting 
will soon come into general use. 
Witness this from “The Automobile 
Engineer” published in London, Eng¬ 
land. In commenting upon Cadillac 
engineering progress and Cadillac ini¬ 
tiative, it says:— 
“Already there is a very decided 
movement among other makers 
to try and provide some type of 
two-speed rear axle similar to the 
Cadillac, for 1914 or 1915.” 
In our experimental division we 
have built automobile engines of al¬ 
most every conceivable type and size, 
and have tested scores which we did 
not make ourselves. 
We have built them with one, with 
two, with three, with four and with 
six cylinders. We have never tried 
five. 
We have cast them en bloc, we have 
cast them in pairs and we have cast 
them singly. We have made them 
with water jackets cast integral and 
with copper water jackets. We found 
the latter method most expensive ,but 
the most efficient—hence we use it. 
We built cars with one cylinder en¬ 
gines, more than 15,000 of them, and 
they were good ones. “One-lungers” 
they were called, and they are prac¬ 
tically all going yet, after eight to 
eleven years of service, hundreds ‘of 
them having passed the 100,000 mile 
mark. 
We built a few cars with two cylin¬ 
der engines and they were as good as 
that type could possibly be made. But 
we never marketed any of them al¬ 
though the rumor was current that we 
intended doing so. 
Yes, and we built cars with three 
cylinder engines, as good of that type 
as could be made. Probably few read¬ 
ers ever heard of such a car. Some 
people thought they wanted that kind 
and they bought them. But not from 
us. Rumor had it, however, that we 
intended to market them. 
Cars with four cylinder engines I 
We have built and distributed more 
than sixty thousand (60,000) of them. 
That was something more substantial 
than a rumor. 
Cars with six cylinder engines! We 
have built a number of them in the 
last four years. We have tested them 
to the utmost, and they proved to be 
good ones—by comparison. In fact, 
by comparing them point for point 
with a number of the most highly re¬ 
garded “sixes,” which we bought for 
the purpose of making comparisons 
for our own enlightenment, we failed 
to find a single car which, in our opin¬ 
ion, outpointed our own, and our own 
outpointed most of them. 
These experiments may have given 
rise to the rumor that the Cadillac 
Company contemplates marketing a 
six cylinder car. But—as in the cases 
of the two and three cylinder cars— 
such rumor is entirely wtihout founda¬ 
tion. This Company has no such in¬ 
tention. 
And we made other comparisons as 
well; in fact, nothing worth while was 
overlooked or omitted. 
Our tests, investigations, experi¬ 
ments and comparisons demonstrated 
conclusively to us, that a four cylinder 
engine, designed with the skill and 
executed with the precision which 
characterizes the Cadillac engine—and 
scientifically balanced, affords the 
highest degree of all ’round efficiency 
possible to obtain. 
These tests further demonstrated 
that with such an engine, in conjunc¬ 
tion with a properly designed two- 
speed axle, there is obtained an ex¬ 
traordinary range of operating flexi¬ 
bility, an extraordinary reduction of 
friction, an extraordinary degree of 
operation and maintenance economy, 
an extraordinary degree of luxurious 
riding qualities, and a reduction of 
vibration, particularly at high speeds, 
almost to the vanishing point. 
We have cited the foregoing facts 
because we believe that the public is 
entitled to know them, because we be¬ 
lieve that we owe it to the public to 
make the facts known and because we 
want the public to know that the 
Cadillac Company leaves no stone un¬ 
turned, that it spares no expense in 
its efforts to discover and to provide 
that which it knows to be right, that 
which it knows will satisfy, and that 
which will give to the buyer “value 
received” in abundant measure. 
And above all, the Cadillac Com¬ 
pany has no intention of departing 
from that policy. 
There can be no better evidence of 
the appreciation of the Cadillac policy 
than the fact that there have already 
been manufactured and distributed 
more than 9,000 of the 1914 Model 
Cadillacs, amounting in selling value 
to more than eighteen millions ($18,- 
000,000) of dollars—a volume of cars 
which nearly equals, if it does not ex¬ 
ceed, that of all other 1914 high grade 
American cars combined, selling at 
or more than the Cadillac price, re¬ 
gardless of their number of cylinders. 
CADILLAC MOTOR CAR CO. 
Detroit, Michigan. 
