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Farming & the land, 1833

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Prices of Wheat at Barker's Granaries

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 5 January 1833 · page 3

2527 Bushels of wheat were purchased during the week at the Granaries; the supplies came from the Hawkshury and Nepean, and the grain was of good quality and clean…

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Sheep Farming. Continued from the "Australian" of Nov. 16, 1822

The Australian · Friday 11 January 1833 · page 3

SIR, I must now as promised in my last, touch on the miserable stupidity of those who leave their ill used sheep to their ill used Government men; many had…

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Prices of Wheat at Barker's Granaries. on

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 16 January 1833 · page 3

320[?] Bushels of Wheat were parchased during the past week at the granaries, from the Hawkesbury, Nepean, Cow pastures, Blawarra, and Hunters River. The grain was of good…

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Prices of Wheat at Barker's Granaries

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 19 January 1833 · page 3

5,000 bushels of wheat were purchased during h[?]past week at the Gra[?]aries; the supplies came from the Hawkesbury Nepean and the Cowpastnres, and Were roof good quality and generally…

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Cattle Stealing

The Sydney Herald · Monday 28 January 1833 · page 4

THE undermentioned Cattle having been found in the possession of Josiah Strickland, who has absconded under a charge of Cattle stealing, they are hereunder described for public…

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Wool

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 19 February 1833 · page 2

At the public sales of Mew South Wales wool, of the 30th and 31st of August, 1832, there was a very brisk competition of buyers, and the following prices were obtained,…

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WOOL. (Extract of a Letter from Messrs. Donaldson, Wilkinson, and Co., dated London, 5th October, 1832,to a Gentleman in this Colony.)

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 28 February 1833 · page 2

" The late sales were attended by an almost unprecedented number of buyers from the manufacturing districts, and went off with much briskness, at what we consider on the whole to be very…

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Sheep-scab Bill

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 2 March 1833 · page 4

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

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Wool of 1833

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 9 March 1833 · page 2

It is calculated that the wool, this year, will amount to 15,000 bales, which, at an average of £15 a bale, amounts to the enormous sum of £225,000. Supposing the…

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RETURN of the Average Wholesale Prices of Farm Produce from the 16th to the 20th instant

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 21 March 1833 · page 4

S. d. Wheat, best N. S. Wales.... 0 4 0 p. bns.of 601[?] Do. second quality, do...... 0 3 3 ditto ditto Do. third do. do........ 0 2 6 ditto ditto…

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Little Johnny Horner, or Tea, Toast, and Butter

The Currency Lad · Saturday 23 March 1833 · page 2

"Show me your company, and I will tell thee what thou art"--Proverb. "The fool telleth his whole mind."--Scripture. FROM nothing nothing can proceed…

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Constables Impounding Cattle, First Driving Them Off Illegally. to the Editor of the Sydney Monitor, March 25th, 1833

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 27 March 1833 · page 2

SIR, Having seen many incorrect statements in the public papers concerning Shiel and the impounding system of late, induces me to furnish you with a short but…

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Depasturing Cattle in Churchyards

The Currency Lad · Saturday 30 March 1833 · page 2

The subject of complaint transmitted to us by a "countryman," is one, we must confess, which should long before this have been commented upon in the public journals. In the first place, if…

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WOOL. To the Editors of the Sydney Herald

The Sydney Herald · Monday 8 April 1833 · page 2

GENTLEMEN,—Having read your Herald of the 18th ultimo, I suspect that you have not been supplied with correct information on the present state of the wool trade at Home. The advice given to…

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Locking Up Assigned Servants at Night, on Farms Contiguous to Towns

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 8 May 1833 · page 2

IT is more than suspected that a considerable portion of the robberies committed on the main roads between Sydney and Windsor, and between Sydney and the Cowpasture and…

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Original Poetry. an Ear of Wheat

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 9 May 1833 · page 4

That moon, which I've always beheld with delight, Is more beautiful now both to soul and to sight— For her lamp, like a beacon of love to my dear, Hath illumined my steps, and conducted me here:…

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EMIGRATION. Advantages attending the Immigration of Young Pauper farming Labourers, Male & Female, As Compared with The present Immigration of Magdal[?]n Town-brod Females, Orphan Girls, and other Free Female Poor, and of aged Pensioners and Mechanics, who are sufficiently well off at home to pay PART of their Passage Money

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 22 May 1833 · page 2

THE agitation of this question, is of importance in proportion to the benefit which would accrue to the Colony, through Lord Goderich's arresting the emigration of…

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Public Sales of Wool, By the following Vessels, with their respective dates. Sale 10th of January, 1833. Per Portland, from Sydney

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 10 July 1833 · page 4

JW 12 bales, 1s. 8d. to 1s. 10d. RLB 1, 2s 0 d. J B M 1, 2s 1½d. Per Mary, from Sydney. AM 4, 2s to 2s 2d…

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Wool and Oil Markets

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 18 July 1833 · page 2

The following notices of the state of the London oil and wool markets, up to the 1st of March last, are extracted from the Hobart Town Courier and the Tasmanian:…

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Advance Australia Sydney Gazette. Thursday, August 15, 1833.[?] WOOL

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 15 August 1833 · page 2

THE following important communication has been forwarded to us by Messrs. DONALDSON, WILKINSON, and Co., of London. We received it yesterday, and…

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