RED DEER LAND. 



reclaimed, and has reverted to waste. Yet 

 it would seem that the black peaty earth 

 contains the elements of fertility, and per- 

 sons are continually tempted to lay out 

 their money in an effort to do something 

 with it. Here is, in fact, a great agricultural 

 problem 



An immense experiment was made some 

 years ago by the owner of a large part of 

 the moors to improve his seventy thousand 

 acres. He caused the surface to be broken 

 up, and lime to be hauled. Walls were 

 built to form enclosures, and when the deer 

 climbed the walls wire was put along, in 

 which wire many deer got hung by their 

 legs, and had to be killed being injured. 

 A tramway was laid down. Instead of 

 the horned mountain sheep, or " Porlocks," 

 Cheviots were introduced. Numerous farm- 

 houses were erected in a substantial manner, 

 and fir copses planted to shelter the inmates 



