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Growing Dill for Pickle Factory 
I can get a contract from the local 
pickle plant to raise several acres of dill, 
the herb to be cut like hay and delivered 
to the plant green at $20 per ton. Is 
there anything in it for me at that priceV 
I know years ago lots of it was raised on 
Long Island. What kind of ground is 
best, and how much .seed to the acre? 
Should it be planted in rows, and how far 
apart the rows? Should the rows be cul¬ 
tivated? When is the best time to cul, 
and how much could be expected from the 
acre? h. h. 
Michigan. 
The big pickle companies sow seed in 
drill rows. 12 in. apart. Seed is sown 
quite thickly, so as to avoid having too 
rank a growth. The valuable part of the 
plant is not the stalk, but the flower 
clusters with the ripened seed, and it is 
possible to increase the amount of flower 
heads if the stalk growth is not too lux¬ 
uriant. 
Ordinarily about 12 lbs. of seed per 
acre is used. The culture given to the 
crop during the growing period is about 
the same as a crop of carrots requires. 
The young plants are tender, and require 
much care in the way of weeding and 
hand cultivating in the early growing 
period. A soil abounding in organic mat¬ 
ter, and as free as possible from weeds, 
and of sufficient fertility to grow a good 
crop of corn, should grow good crops of 
dill. 
The best stage for harvesting is just 
before the main flower heads turn brown. 
The seed should be in a fairly ripe condi¬ 
tion, but not so ripe that the seed will be 
lost in harvesting. It is possible under 
favorable circumstances to get a yield of 
eight to nine tons per acre, but this is ex¬ 
ceptional, and a yield of four tons is con¬ 
sidered very satisfactory. If with the 
above facts in view, M. FI. thinks he can 
grow it for $20 per ton, he may try it, but 
I believe that in order to make a profit 
the price should be a little higher. 
Michigan. g. s. s. 
Poor Results from Nectarines and 
Walnuts 
1 . I have three nectarine trees which I 
raised from seed ; the last two seasons 
they were covered with bloom and later 
with fruit, but when they reach the size of 
a plum they either decay or drop off, and 
we are never able to get a taste of ma¬ 
tured fruit. Is it because I have neglect¬ 
ed to spray? What could I do to cause 
the fruit to mature? 2. I also have a 
large English walnut tree about a foot 
through the trunk, but we are never able 
to get more than about a half pint of nuts 
in a season. Is there anything I can do 
to cause it to bear more fruit? w. m. 
Hatboro, Pa. 
1. The trouble with your nectarines is 
doubtless due to the brown-rot fungus. 
Nectarines, with their tender, smooth 
skins, are especially susceptible to brown- 
rot. Moreover, lacking the “fuzziness” 
of the peach, which helps to hold the 
spray, they are more difficult to keep free 
from disease. However, it can be done by 
thorough and timely spraying. The rec¬ 
ommendations are to spray with self- 
boiled lime-sulphur when the blossoms 
show pink, again when the shucks are 
falling, two or three weeks after the 
shucks fall, and two to four weeks before 
the fruit ripens. The self-boiled lime- 
sulphur should not 'be confused with the 
concentrated lime-sulphur. The latter 
will surely burn the foliage. The self- 
boiled is made by slaking 8 lbs. of lump 
lime and adding 8 lbs. of sulphur while 
the lime is slaking, and finally straining 
the mixture into a total volume of 50 
gallons. A new spray recently de¬ 
veloped in New Jersey which will doubt¬ 
less give just as good control as the self- 
boiled lime-sulphur, and which is much 
more easily handled, is made by mixing 8 
lbs. of superfine sulphur, 4 lbs. of hy¬ 
drated lime and y 2 lb. of calcium casein¬ 
ate, and adding it to enough water to 
make 50 gallons of spray. 
2. Home French varieties of walnuts 
bear early, but the English, or Persian 
varieties often do not bear until six or 
eight or even 10 years of age. Again, it 
has been found that failure to bear is due 
in some varieties to too great an interval 
between the catkins or pollen-bearing 
flowers and the pistiPbearing blossoms, 
the former shedding all their pollen before 
the latter are receptive. In such cases 
the remedy lies in planting some other 
variety for cross pollination. h. b. t. 
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