Sydney and at Newcastle. The establishment at Sydney, like the brewery, was, for greater economy, leased after a time.
Like his predecessors King paid attention to agriculture, but he is reported to have said, like Phillip, that he could not make farmers out of pickpockets.
In 1801 he made, and in 1804 he repeated, an Order that—
"No person whatever is to set fire to any stubble without giving his neighbours sufficient notice; and not then until every person is prepared by having their wheat stacked and secured. Should any person neglect this necessary regulation, they will, on conviction, be obliged to make good all losses sustained by such neglect. No persons whatever are to smoke pipes or light fires near any wheat-stacks, public or private."
From a "muster in 1806" King compiled the following statement:
| Land held by— | Acres Sown. |
Pasture. | Fallow. | Total. |
| The Crown | 336 | 80,915 | 854 | 82,105 |
| 32 Civil Officers | 839 | 12,431 | 2,350 | 15,620 |
| 29 Military and Naval Officers | 155 | 19,439 | 1,103 | 20,697 |
| 329 holding various allotments up to and including 30 acres each | 3,233 | 1,522 | 905 | 5,660 |
| 56 from 30 to 50 acres | 839 | 1,099 | 330 | 2,268 |
| 143 from 50 to 100 acres | 2,321 | 7,817 | 1,038 | 11,176 |
| 82 from 100 to 200 acres | 2,496 | 7,664 | 1,023 | 11,183 |
| 23 from 200 to 300 acres | 998 | 3,622 | 645 | 5,265 |
| 13 from 300 acres upwards | 474 | 10,296 | 1,138 | 11,905 |
| 11,691 | 144,805 | 9,386 | 165,882 |
About 20,000 acres had been "cleared of timber." Of the acres in cultivation, about 6000 were in wheat, nearly 4000 in maize, 1000 in barley, only 80 acres in oats, 433 in "orchard and garden," 185 in potatoes, and less than 40 in pease and beans. The average yield was 16 bushels of wheat per acre; of maize, 25 to 30 bushels. There were large reserves of land for public uses.
Reserved for government allotments there were—
