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New South Wales
Oct 6. 1814
Sir
I have to return my most grateful thanks for your goodness in providing to me the Potatoe Seeds which my friend Mr Dixon had so kindly Collected, they came in a good season Just as the spring was coming on and were received in Excellent preservation. I have sown them in several situations but they have not yet vegetated nor have they had sufficient time. Our Potatoes are not in general good, this is partly owing to the want of a [Change?] of Seed, and to bad cultivation quantity not quality has been looked for, but as the Colony gains strength the particulars in Agriculture and Horticulture will be more and more attended to and in time Youngs and Marshalls may spring up in Botany Bay.
Our two last seasons have been remarkably dry and both Flocks and Herds have suffered from the drought great numbers of Cattle perished the last season in holes of water the water being scarce and many of the Cattle weak from want of pasture. numbers would rush into a small pond at once and the weakly were trod down by the strong ones and drowned or if got out again seldom recovered, Government lost great numbers as did many individuals, and