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Farming & the land, 1838

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Latest Wool Sales

The Sydney Herald · Monday 29 January 1838 · page 6

The public sales of 10,600 bales of Van Dicmen's Land and New South Wales, and 2,500 bales of sundry other descriptions, which commenced on the…

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Wool. London Sales

The Sydney Herald · Monday 29 January 1838 · page 5

Account Sales of 815 bales Van Diemen's Land, and 308 bales Australian Wool, which took place at Garraway's Coffeehouse, Cornhill, by J. T. Simes & Co.,…

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Treatise on Sheep. To the Editor of the Sydney Herald

The Sydney Herald · Monday 29 January 1838 · page 3

SIR,—It has occurred to me, that a very essential service would be conferred on this Colony, if some competent person would take the trouble to compose and publish, in a compendious form…

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Wool, Oil, and Bone

The Australian · Tuesday 30 January 1838 · page 2

THE following extract from a private letter, dated London, 19th September, addressed from a respectable mercantile firm to a gentleman in Sydney, has been…

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Price Current of Colonial Wool

The Australian · Tuesday 30 January 1838 · page 2

7th September, by J. T. Simes &Co—815 Tasmanian, 308 Australian; 1,123. 8th September, by ditto—769 Tasmanian, 134 Australian, 9 Swan River; 912…

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The Wool Trade. Morning Chronicle, Monday, October 9

The Australian · Friday 2 February 1838 · page 3

Leeds.—On Saturday there was a very brisk market for goods at both Cloth Halls, but on Tuesday there was less business done, and prices are without any…

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Wool

The Sydney Herald · Monday 5 February 1838 · page 2

We have been favored with the following Account Sales of Wool by Messrs. G. Porter & Co. London, September 22, 1837…

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News of the Day. Averages of Wool Sales, for 1837

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 7 February 1838 · page 2

By the kindness of a mercantile house we are enabled to furnish, for the information of our Flock-masters, the averages of all the Wool Sales for 1837, under each…

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Wool, Oil, and Bone

The Australian · Friday 9 February 1838 · page 2

EXTRACT of a letter, dated London, October 7, 1837:—"Our wool sales are continuing at prices much similar to those contained in our letters to you of the 19th…

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Extract. Wool. (From the Public Ledger, October 9)

The Australian · Friday 9 February 1838 · page 3

The north country dealers having got considerable quantities of wool into their markets, seemed inclined to get rid of some before they purchase any…

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Wool, Oil, and Bone

Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Saturday 10 February 1838 · page 2

Extract of a letters, dated London, October 7,1837:--"Our wool sales are continuing at prices much similar to those contained in our letters to you of the 19th…

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Latest English News. WOOL. (From the Sunday Times, November 5, 1837.)

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 February 1838 · page 3

The English Wool market has become very heavy, and but little business has been done since our last, although prices in many instances are rather lower. The…

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London Wool Sales

The Sydney Monitor · Monday 12 February 1838 · page 2

We have been favoured with the following Wool Sales, by Messrs. W. Walker & Co., and A. B. Spark, Esq:— OCTOBER 26—BY J. T. SIMES AND CO…

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Latest English News. the Wool Trade

The Sydney Herald · Monday 12 February 1838 · page 2

LEEDS.—The demand for cloth in our halls for the week, we are sorry to say, has been very slack, and many sorts of cloths, which a week before were in great…

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English News. Wool, 23Rd October (From the Public Ledger, October 24)

The Australian · Friday 16 February 1838 · page 3

Owing to the large quantity of wool which will shortly be submitted to public competition, the foreign wool trade has become in a sluggish state, but the quotations noted on Monday last have…

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History and Mode of Curing Butter

The Sydney Monitor · Monday 19 February 1838 · page 3

Butter is so will known, that it is unnecessary to give a description of it. It is one of the three component parts of milk, the other two being whey and cheese; it…

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News of the Day. Wool Sales

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 21 February 1838 · page 2

The following is a continuation of the London Sales of Australian Wool, from the 30th October, given in the Monitor of 12th instant.—…

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Extracts. Sheep. Foot Rot

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 22 February 1838 · page 1

Precautions and Treatment.—Every thing pertaining to the knowledge of this disease, which absolutely new in France, and, I have reason to believe, unknown in S[?]ain, is extremely important to the…

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Introduction of Merino Sheep Into the Bombay Presidency

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 1 March 1838 · page 2

By a correspondence with which we have been favored, we learn that the Honorable the Court of Directors have at the suggestion of Major Jervis, Bombay…

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A Farm Scene in the South of Spain

The Sydney Monitor · Monday 5 March 1838 · page 4

Antonio's paternal house was one of the first on entering the village. It exhibited towards the street a principal building, or habitation, of about thirty feet in breadth…

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