Show C U lews USING FILLERS IN ORCHARD PLANTING it makes 11 little tile difference whether hether peaches or early bearing varieties of tipples apples tire ere used tor for tillers fillers the important tiling thing however is the planting distance and the arram arrangement gement ot of the fillers an ideal method making use of fillers may be described as follows planting the permanent trees at a distance ot of 40 feet fillers may be put in at 20 feet apart actually making h a total of four times the number of trees however instead of calling all of these trees fillers one third of thorn them those located in the center of each 40 foot square formed by the permanent trees should be considered as aa semi permanents thus the orchard will consist of 25 2 i per cent permanent apple trees 25 per cent semi perma nent dent apple trees and SO 50 per cent filler apple trees or peach trees of 0 course the filler and semi per maxient manent trees are only temporary but actually they may remain in the orchard long enough to bedr bear a good many profitable crops usually the fillers need not be cut out until the heend end of IA if or 15 years this Is accomplished by the elimination of every other diagonal row all the way through the orchard the trees at this stage are 28 feet apart and there Is plenty of room for tile the remaining trees until they reach the approximate age of 0 twenty five or thirty years this will change the ill dl r tion of the rows temporarily but there Is plenty of room tor for spraying and the other orchard operations and the direction makes little daffe difference rence during tills this period after 25 or 30 years when the permanent apple trees have reached a large size and quantity production of fruit the serial permanents should be cut out leaving the permanents 40 feet apart each way nany the adian advantages of the foregoing me method thod are very easily seen I 1 in n ton the e first place we have about tr trees e es on an acre during the early production period of the orchard this means quantity production as soon as the trees reach bearing age the fillers will nill produce a large number of crops before they have to be cut out and will during this time more than pay the or original 1 nal and operating costs of the orchard during this expensive period when the orchard proper Is coming into bearing the fillers of peach or early bearing apple trees are paying the bills it Is a sound economic I 1 c proposition and good ore barding |