012 - Hunter Valley Manuscript - July 1833

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Description(012.jpg) Verso Sufficiently cleared to admit of the operation of the finely constructed implements of home manufacture and even should an emigrant be sufficiently fortunate to meet with one of them, he would neither find men or cattle capable of turning his instruments to their proper use - The Common Scotch Plough is in most general use, and is usually built very strong and heavy to meet the continual shocks of roots stumps and stones which it will require a long course of husbandry to eradicate, oxen are almost invariably the only beasts used on a farm either for the plough or the dray - A good strong colonial plough pair of harrows also heavy a few hoes bullock chains and yokes constitute the material of a farm; and a few hulk [saws] small churn cheese oats and cheese cloths that of a dairy Anything else will surly add to the perplexities of a new settler, and until he can bring his establishment under a good system of management which cannot be expected for at least three or four years, and in the mean time the capital that should be required for improved instruments might be better employed. The most adviseable method for a new settler on his first arrival in the country is to rent a small farm in the neighbourhood of some township, where he will have the double advantage of meeting with a ready market for his small produce whilst his own land in the mean time may be made a stock station and undergo progressive improvement, preparatory to his taking up his residence there. Farms may be easily obtained at a trifling rent but let the new comer be very cautious in entering into an engagement to rent a farm, for our worthy Colonists always act on the common mercantile principle that a thing is worth as much as it will fetch, and consequently invariably demand five times as much as their farms are worth - Whilst the emigrant having no ready opportunity in consequence of the want [of fussids] and the population being to widely scattered of ascertaining the intrinsic value of the land for which he bargains [folks can easy prey to the designms] SubjectNew South Wales historyNSWHunter ValleySettlerAustralian historyMaitlandAustraliaDatenot specifiedSourcehttps://www.flickr.com/photos/uon/2665498333/

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