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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1830

34 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 2

To the Duke of Wellington. On the Cost of our "Conquests." Barn-Elm Farm, 7th March, 1830

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 14 August 1830 · page 4

MY LORD DUKE, I Have read with great interest your speech of the 4th instant, relative to the impossibility of making further reductions,…

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The Crops at Hunter's River. (From a Correspondent.)

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 24 August 1830 · page 3

The wheat-fields around Darlington and Maitland promise one of the most plentiful crops ever reaped in the Colony. Wheat will be low, both from the redundant crops here, and the vast surplus quantity…

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Present Mode of Granting Farms

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 11 September 1830 · page 2

Such heavy complaints have always been made by emigrants, as to the difficulty of getting land since General Darling had this Government, that we felt it our duty from time…

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Thursday's Market. There was a middling supply this morning of grain, dairy produce, and vegetables Potatoes are considerably advanced in price

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 23 October 1830 · page 3

There was a middling supply this morning of grain, dairy produce, and vegetables Potatoes are considerably advanced in price. Grain, average Sterling prices.—Good wheat 3s. 6d…

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Southey on Wool

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 9 November 1830 · page 3

At length we present our readers with a copy of this interesting pamphlet. The entire work is republished in our last page, and to all who are interested in…

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Observations Addressed to the Wool Growers, &c. of Australia and Tasmania

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 9 November 1830 · page 4

THE wool, produced in Australia and Tasmania, having attracted the attention of all classes of persons connected with wool, or woollen goods, in England, it might naturally be presumed that the…

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Wool [?] Doncaster and Sovereign

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 November 1830 · page 2

On Thursday we gave the particulars of a sale of Australian wool, which took place at GARRAWAY'S on the 1st of July. We now subjoin a similar account of a…

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Australian Wool. Observations on Washing, Sorting, and Packing for the London Markrt

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 November 1830 · page 3

THE wool grown in Now South Wales has now become an object of much interest to all wool dealers and woollen manufacturers; and from the rapid annual increase of its quantity, as well as the…

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On the Late Advance of the Price of Wool. To the Editor of the Sydney Gazette

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 16 November 1830 · page 3

SIR, The necessity of paying every attention to a branch of trade so important to New South Wales as the exportation of wools grown in the Colony,…

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Wool. on the Washing, Assorting, and Packing of Wool

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 20 November 1830 · page 4

WASHING.—It is of great importance that the fleece should be well washed, that the wool may be brought to market with a colour as bright as possible; every…

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On the Importance of Early Shipments of Wool for the London Market. To the Editor of the Sydney Gazette

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 23 November 1830 · page 3

SIR, In the various remarks on the subject of wool, which have lately appeared in your columns, I have not observed any mention of the importance it is…

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The Crops

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 7 December 1830 · page 2

A gentleman of much experience in farming concerns, last week performed a tour in the Hawkesbury districts, for the purpose of judging for himself as to the…

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Original Correspondence. Australian Wool. Further Observations on Washing for the London Market. (For the Sydney Gazette.)

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 December 1830 · page 3

As it is desirable that all who can impart any information likely to be serviceable to the grower, ought not to withhold it, I beg to submit a few hints…

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Original Correspondence. Observations Upon the Prevalence of Scar in Sheep, and the Necessity of a Law for Its Prevention

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 16 December 1830 · page 3

This disease has become so universal throughout the colony, that very few sheep proprietors can now be found whose flocks are not more or less infected with…

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