PLOW FOR SUGAR PLANTERS. 
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PLOW FOR SUGAR PLANTERS. 
Many of our southern and Cuban friends have 
importuned us for a larger fluke or double-mold- 
board plow than we have already made. They 
have hitherto got them as best they could; some 
have bought them in France, at a cost of $50 
each, and others have been rudely made by citi- 
zen mechanics, or by plantation hands, at a 
large cost. We have, at last, consented to sup- 
ply this article, and shall hereafter be prepared 
to fill all orders for them, on reasonable notice, 
at prices varying from $10 to $20, being about 
half the price heretofore charged for an inferior 
article. One of our Louisiana friends told us 
recently, that he run one of these large hillers, 
or double-moldboard plows through his sugar 
cane for the purpose of laying it by, or perform- 
ing the last operation of hilling up the rows by 
plowing and hoeing. The cane rows were 
seven feet apart, and the plow was drawn by three 
mules. Eighteen arpents, (about six sevenths 
of an acre, each,) per day, were thus plowed, 
and finished with the hoe, by seven females, by 
which our informant estimates he saved the 
labor of eighteen good hands. This is a speci- 
men of economy worthy the consideration of 
planters. 
ENDLESS-CHAIN PUMP. 
Fig. 79. Fig. 80. 
We give above, the cut of a very simple 
pump, which is fast becoming quite popular 
with those who have tried it. For any depth 
not exceeding 25 feet, it works admirably ; but 
when the height to which it is required to raise 
the water is much beyond this distance, a forcing 
pump may be substituted. The great advan- 
tages it possesses is ease of working, simplicity 
of construction, economy of price, and imposi- 
bility of freezing in winter. Price of pump, 
complete, from 50 to 65 cents per foot, according 
to size and length. 
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GUANO SPECULATORS. 
A number of persons in Baltimore have fore- 
stalled all the Peruvian guano to arrive this 
year, and have raised the price to $56 per ton, 
by the quantity, and three cents per pound, at 
retail. We had made arrangements this fall 
to furnish the best Peruvian guano, at $45 per, 
short ton, wholesale, and two and a half cents 
per pound, at retail ; and were it not for this com- 
bination to speculate out of the hard earnings 
of the farmer, we should be able now to offer it 
at these comparatively low prices. In New 
York and its neighborhood, we can easily sub- 
stitute fish and other manures for guano, and 
thus the effort at extortion will be defeated, so 
far as this part of the country is concerned ; but 
in Maryland and Virginia, we understand sub- 
stitutes are not so easily obtained, and the 
planters there greatly depend on guano for the 
production of their wheat crops. Notwithstand- 
ing this, and the injury they may suffer from 
the want of this excellent fertiliser, we hope 
the planters will combine against the specu- 
lators, and resolve not to purchase a pound till 
they reduce the price. By thus doing, they 
will compel them to sell at lower rates, as there 
is a demand for guano for no other purpose 
than to apply to the land ; and we are advised 
of shipments already made, to arrive here in the 
course of the months of November and De- 
cember, which will afford an abundant sup- 
ply for any demand that is likely to occur. 
Planters will do well to bear this in mind, and 
turn the tables upon those who seek to tax their 
hard earnings so unjustly. 
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SUPERIOR NATIVE APPLES. 
We have received three samples of native ap- 
ples from a friend, in Westbury, Long Island, 
which we think quite superior kinds. The first 
is called the " pear-tree-lot apple." It is flat- 
round in shape, of a bright red-streaked color, 
and weighs from four to six ounces. It is of a 
sugary sweet taste, and almost as delicious for 
baking as the celebrated " belle bonne." 
The second specimen is nearly the same 
shape and color as the first, mingled with a lit- 
tle more green or white. Its weight is from three 
to five ounces. It is of a delicate sweet taste, and 
a very fine apple for the table and for fxttening 
stock. It is vulgularly called the "hog sweet- 
ing," from its originating on " Hog Island," in 
Oyster Bay. As they have changed the name 
of this fine island to the good old Indian cog- 
nomen of Syosset, we hope they will also 
change the name of the apple to "Syosset 
sweeting." 
The third is called the "cream apple." It is 
of a flat-round shape, pale-green color, slightly 
flecked with littte red spots, and weighs two to 
four ounces. It is very juicy, with a slightly tart 
and agreeable spicy flavor. It would be much 
better for our nurserymen to look up and prop- 
agate the best native apples, instead of sending 
abroad for so many varieties, as they are con- 
tinually doing. The former, we know some- 
thing about, the latter are altogether uncertain. 
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Gathering and Storing Winter Fruit. — 
Winter apples and pears should be carefully 
picked from the trees by hand, packed up in 
barrels, and stored in a cool, dry room, in which 
the temperature ranges, as near as possible, 
to the freezing point. If such a room should 
eventually become too cold, put them in an 
airy, dry cellar, sufficiently cool as not to allow 
them to freeze. 
