The reports which appeared last January from the English and Scottish Hill Sheep Farming Committees have shown that the economic utilization of our extensive areas* of high lying land has thrown up a number of closely inter-related problems, some technical, some administrative, others legal, social, or political. I have to select from this complexity those aspects of the hill sheep industry which most properly fall within the scope of the Society’s interests and which can be presented within the space of half an hour. It is not easy.