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Extract of a Letter from Governor Hunter to Mr Chalmers dated March 12 1798
With respect to our Progress as a Colony I shall briefly assure you, that our Live stock of Every Kind not excepting the humans are healthy and prolific. our Land, with Fair & proper management (which it today has) yields remarkably well & had this Colony been peopled by honest & industrious characters its expense to the mother Country would have been small: our stock consists of Cows horses sheep goats pigs & poultry of all kinds our fruit of apples pears peaches apricots plums oranges melons strawberries mulberries grapes pomegranates & figs had we been attentive from the beginning to the propagation of fruit trees the rest of the Country where we inhabit would by this time have been covered with them. I never saw in any country vegetation more quick & strong, our kitchen gardens offered us Cabbage Cauliflower Beans Pease Carrots Turnips Potatoes Brocoli Onions Leeks Rhadishes Cucumbers Lettuce French Beans Artichokes and asparagus.
Extract of a Letter from Mr James Thomson a surgeon to Schenk Sect date Sept 12 1798
We make rapid advances in Cultivation the climate is particularly favourable for Raising both grain & stock the Quantity of ground under Culture often by individuals is incredible the Price of wheat is now 10/- a bushel it will probably be lower next year Indian corn is from 2/6 to 3/6
The banks of the Hawkesbury is the best soil for grains I have known an acre there produces