Animal husbandry was more promising. Responding to the quality of his land grant, Surgeon Harris committed much of Ultimo to a deer park – a bold display of wealth in a hungry settlement. Small-scale dairy-farming persisted into the twentieth century, but Pyrmonters kept pigs, dogs, goats, rabbits and fowls in their yards: they did so to dispose of rubbish, but also for their own subsistence. As in the case of timber, so with meat: Pyrmont processed more than it produced.