Country Life
A RECLAIMED FARM'.
In the extreme North East of Scotland between John o' Groats and Wick lay some years ago an area of rough moor running down to the rocky shore. It was valueless ; but its potential value was inferred by a citizen of Wick, who had made his money not by farming but by the more lucrative occupation of distributing farm produce. He proceeded to a whole-hearted scheme of reclamation ; and the moor is now known as Noss farm, and is held to be the equal even of finer farms in the Lothians, which compete with South Lincolnshire as the best in Britain, perhaps in the World. It has become a place of pilgrimage, like the reclaimed farm on Dartmoor recently described in a monograph by Mr. Orwin. One of these pilgrimages is described, very persuasively, in a recent number of the John o' Groat Journal.
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