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scheme, according to the extent of drainage required, 

 the value of the peat, the proximity of mineral soil, 

 etc., but areas of this type are regarded in Germany 

 as the most profitable of all. 



To what extent similar processes can be extended 

 to the higher-lying peat and bog areas in places like 

 Dartmoor, parts of Wales, the North of England and 

 the Highlands is doubtful, because the climatic con- 

 ditions are often too severe to permit of profitable 

 crops to be grown. For the present, at any rate, until 

 more experience has accumulated it would not be 

 wise to touch land of this kind except by way of ex- 

 periment on selected favourable areas, as, for example, 

 on some of the cut- over bogs in Ireland. 



(5) Upland Sheep Walk. — In many parts of the 

 country, notably in Mid- Wales and the Lowlands of 

 Scotland, lie extensive tracts of grassy uplands which 

 have never been improved in any way and are held 

 as farms of 1,000 acres and upwards for breeding sheep 

 which are sold away and fattened on the lowlands. 

 In Mid Wales many thousands of acres of land of this 

 type are let at rentals of about Is. per acre. They 

 possess a fair mineral soil generally deficient in lime, 

 the herbage is rough and poor, but consists in the 

 main of grass, boggy patches occur in which peat has 

 accumulated. Being grass covered, game are scanty, 

 and the sporting rights of little value ; on the other 

 hand certain commoners' rights often exist though 

 there are few commoners to exercise them. From 

 the evidence afforded by neighbouring farms it is 

 certain that this land is capable of profitable develop- 

 ment, and that much of it is cultivable when 



