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should be terraced. This will aid materially in preventing 

 both leaching of plant-food and washing of the soil. 



The term ^^ fillers'' is applied to any short-lived perennial 

 crop grown to utilize the vacant space until the orchard proper 

 comes into profitable bearing. Fillers are not used as often 

 as annual crops, but in some locations they often give very 



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Figure 25. — The crosses (x) indicate pecan trees 72 feet 

 apart. The dots indicate fig trees IS feet apart from the 

 pecan trees and from each other. The fig trees inchided in 

 the circles are to be removed when they interfere with the 

 pecans. AU other fig trees are to be aUowed to remain their 

 natural life. 



satisfactory results. They should be planted, however, with 

 the definite understanding that they are to be removed just 

 before they begin to interfere with the pecan trees, regard- 

 less of their state of maturity. They should be set far enough 

 from the pecans to allow them to reach maturity, in most 

 cases, before they interfere. Some of the fruits that can be 



