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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1832

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Sheep-scab Bill

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 22 September 1832 · page 4

At the particular request of our Country Subscribers, we insert the Sheep-scab Bill at full length…

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Anno Tertio Gulielmi Quarti Regis. (No. V.) An Act for preventing the Extension of the infectious Disease commonly called the Scab in Sheep or Lambs, in the Colony of New South Wales

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 22 September 1832 · page 4

WHEREAS, a certain infectious disease, commonly called the Scab has, for some time, been prevalent in New South Wales, to the great injury of divers…

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More of the Black Sheep. Gross Libels Upon Common Sense. Extracts From the Rev. T. H. Scott's Last to Lord Howick, on the Effects Produced by Transportation to New South Wales

The Australian · Friday 28 September 1832 · page 2

Transportation to New South Wales has most decidely failed in producing the effects originally proposed, both as punishment for, and a prevention of crime; and it appears to me impossible…

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Prices of Wheat at Barker's Granaries

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 29 September 1832 · page 3

720 Bushels of wheat, were purchased at the Granarles this week; the supplies came from the love grounds were of middling [?] l[?]ty 197 Bushels form Hunter River. 38 B[?][?]h front…

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(From the Australian farmer's Assistant.)

The Australian · Friday 5 October 1832 · page 2

OCTOBER.—Finish planting maize and potatoes as early as possible. The trees felled upon new ground in the beginning of winter should now be burnt off, and the land ploughed for the purpose of…

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Australian & Tasmanian Wool Price Current

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 18 October 1832 · page 3

AUSTRALIAN.—Best Flocks, superior fleeces, 2 bags, 3s. to 3s. 6d. best bales not sold; lower ditto, 2s. to 2s. 7d.; lamb wool, 1s. 9d. to 2s. 5d.; pieces, 1s. 6d. to 2s.½; second-best flocks, 1s. 8½d. to…

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Prices of Wool. Extract of a Letter addressed to the House of Messrs. Lamb Buchanan & Co., Sydney

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 18 October 1832 · page 3

"I have sent you by this opportunity a Price Current, by which yow will perceive that the sales of Wool (per Prince Regent and Stirling Castle) have fully obtained the prices of last year; and that…

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Prices of Wheat at Barker's Granaries

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 3 November 1832 · page 3

1250 bushes of wheat, were purchased at the granaries this week the supplica come from various place perbushed…

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Sheep Farming. "To the Editor of the Australian."

The Australian · Friday 16 November 1832 · page 2

"It ever was a Shepherd's glory To sing a song or tell a story." Sir,— Before I begin to enter on the…

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The Sydney Herald. Thursday, November 22, 1832. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." Angoura Wool, &c

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 22 November 1832 · page 2

The following correspondence with Mr. Southey, the writer on wool, and who has taken much interest in the wool of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, is…

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SHEEP-FARMING. No. 2

The Australian · Friday 23 November 1832 · page 3

SIR, In continuation of my last, I would observe, that the first symptom of disease is evinced by the [?] kicking at their breasts. If kept in…

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Farmer Boys

Hill's Life in New South Wales · Friday 23 November 1832 · page 4

(Boys was transported either to this country or VanDiernen's Land for a trifle. The following is an account by Cobbeto in a letter, dated Havant, 23rd July 1132…

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Cattle Stealing and Bushranoing. To the Editors of the Sydney Herald. Hunter's River, Old Road, Gibber Gonniere, 12th November, 1832

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 29 November 1832 · page 3

GENTLEMEN—I have been for several years a traveller in the old road from the Hawkesbury to Hunter's River. The distance between the two settlements is upwards of one hundred miles…

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[We copy the following letter, as being if true, worth the Governor's notice.] Cattle Stealing and Bush Ranging. to the Editors of the Sydney Herald. Hunter's River, Old Road, Gibber Gonniere, 12th November, 1832

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 1 December 1832 · page 3

GENTLEMEN—I have been for several years a traveller on the old road from the Hawkesbury to Hunter's River. The distance between the two settlements is upwards of one hundred…

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English Extracts. Farmer Boys

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 5 December 1832 · page 4

(Boys was transported either to this country or Van Diemen's Land for a trifle, The following is an account of him by Cobbett in a letter, dated Havant, 23rd…

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Ex[?]eact from a paper on Wool and Downs, by M. Polonceau, Engineer in Chief, &c. read at the Public Session of the Societè Contrate d'Agriculture et des Arts, de Seine et Oise

Hill's Life in New South Wales · Friday 7 December 1832 · page 1

"Besides the encrease in quantity, which is more than four-fold, the down of the Cachemere-Angora, is at least three times as long as that of the pure Cachemere, and can be manufactured as…

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Sheep

The Australian · Friday 14 December 1832 · page 3

CULLEYS DEFINITION OF FORM OF BEST MALE SHEEP.—"His [?] should be fine and small, his nostrils wide expanded, his eyes prominent, and rather bold or during…

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Prices of Wheat at Barker's Granaries

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 15 December 1832 · page 3

1150 Bushels of wheat were purchased at the Granaries this week the supplies came from the N Pean, Hawkabury, Appin, and Sho[?] haven &c. and were of excellent quality, and…

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The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 19 December 1832 · page 4

1150 Bushels of wheat, were purchased at the Granaries this week: the supplies came from the N[?]pean, Hawksbury, Appin, and Shoalhaven &c. and were of excellent quality, and…

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Prices of Wheat at Barker's Granaries

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 22 December 1832 · page 3

3000 Bushels of wheat were purchased at the Granaries this week; the supplies came from all parts of the Country, the grain was of good Quality and generally clean, and all new wheat…

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