12 RED DEER. 



Yet it would seem that the black peaty 

 earth contains the elements of fertility, and 

 persons 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 thou- 

 sand litres. 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 ' Forlocks,' 

 Cheviots were introduced. Numerous farm- 

 houses were erected in a substantial manner, 

 and fir copses planted to shelter the inmates 

 and the stock in the yards from the tre- 

 mendous gales. The land was let to Scotch 

 farmers, who came down from the North 



