Category:James Fry

James Fry 

Australian farmer and flour-miller
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Date of birth	1821 Cassington
Date of death	1903
Country of citizenship	Australia
Occupation	farmer miller
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James Fry (flour-miller)

(1821-1903) farmer and flour-miller

James Fry began his life in Australia as a gold miner, but made his fortune from wheat. After harvesting his first crop at Mt Blowhard near Ballarat, he began milling – so successfully that his Ascot Mill bought wheat from the whole local farming community and helped them prosper. ‘Fry’s Five Stars Flour’ became famous throughout the colony. But Fry retired from the business and went back to farming, experimenting with new wheat varieties until he eventually proved the viability of wheat growing in the Wimmera.