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Farming & the land, 1838

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Wool Market

The Australian · Tuesday 26 June 1838 · page 3

LEEDS.—There has been less business done at the cloth-halls this week than for some weeks past, a very thin attendance both of buyers and sellers being…

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Abstract of January Wool Sales

The Australian · Tuesday 26 June 1838 · page 2

The prices quoted are the average. Ex Carolina from Sydney, Wy, 9 bales, 1s 7¾d; Cy, 11 ditto, 1s 10¾d; BR in diamond B over. 7 ditto, 1s…

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Wool Sale. Extract from S. Simes' Price Current of Colonial Wool, for January:—

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 26 June 1838 · page 3

"It is considered that Combing Fleeces have obtained an advance of 4d. to 8d. per lb. Clothing Fleeces ditto 2d. to 6d. "The advance on the latter kind having…

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WOOL. To the Editor of the Australian. London, February 1st, 1838

The Australian · Tuesday 26 June 1838 · page 2

SIR—-We have much pleasure to inform you that our public sales of wool have terminated very favourably, and we have every reason to expect that…

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Journal of Mr Darlot's Route to Portland Bay, with Five Hundred and Sixty-five Head of Cattle, the Property of the Messrs W. and F. Dutton

The Australian · Tuesday 26 June 1838 · page 1

December 30, 1837—On leaving Mullengendery, Mr. Dutton's station on the Hume, our party consisted of of the Messrs S. Hack and S. Mason, six…

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Wool. Abstract of the January Wool Sales

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 27 June 1838 · page 2

Caroline—Mark Wy, 9 Bales, 1s 7¾d; Cy 11, 1s 10¾; Bit within square B over, 7, 1s 5½d. B 2, 1s 5d; anchor WC on side, 1. 1s 9d W[?] 5, 1s 5¾d; CR 25, 1s 6d; JN within triangle,…

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Liverpool Wool Sales

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 27 June 1838 · page 2

On the 15th and 16th February, there were brought to Auction about 3000 bales of Wool, including 1,400 of Australian and Tasmanian; of the latter descriptions the whole found buyers, and…

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The Wool Trade

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 27 June 1838 · page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.—The market for Wools continue in a very [?] state, and as the im[?] in the his year exhibits a consideration de[?]cy a compared with the arrivals in 1836, the…

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Wool

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 28 June 1838 · page 2

ABSTRACT OF JANUARY WOOL SALES. —Ex Caroline, from Sydney.—Mark Wy, 9 bales, 1s 7¾d; C Y, 11, 1s 10¾d; B, B R in diamond, 7, 1s 5½d; B, 2, 1s 5d;…

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Wool Market. From the Times, March 19

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 28 June 1838 · page 3

LEEDS.— On Saturday last the demand for cloths in the balls was something about the same as we have usually had for some time back, but on Tuesday there was very little business done at all;…

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The Catarrh in Sheep

The Australian · Friday 29 June 1838 · page 2

THE following circular has been addressed by the Clerk of the Council to various gentlemen. We shall be happy to insert the communications of any of…

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Wool in India

The Sydney Monitor · Monday 2 July 1838 · page 2

"With reference to wool, a market for its supply has lately been rising into importance, which in this country appears, to have attracted little attention, although from the extraordinary and yearly…

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Wool Sales

The Australian · Friday 6 July 1838 · page 2

We have been kindly favoured by the house of Messrs Walton & Co., with Account Sales of Wool from Sydney, of the 22nd and 23rd of March…

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Wool

The Sydney Monitor · Monday 9 July 1838 · page 2
Also in The Sydney Herald

We have been favored with the following account sales of wool, which took place on the 22nd and 23rd March, being the last sales that were held previous to the departure of the latest ships' from…

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Wool

The Australian · Friday 13 July 1838 · page 2

The public sales of Colonial wool which have taken place this month, as under, have been looked forward to by the market with considerable interest, in…

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Sheep-pock. From a Work on the Management of Sheep Published at Meitzen, by Dr. P. A. Schrader. 1835

The Sydney Herald · Friday 13 July 1838 · page 2

The Sheep-Pock, a highly contagious epidemic, made its appearance in Germany about the close of last century, and though peculiar to Sheep, it is not universal, since it is…

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Domestic Intelligence. Inoculation of Sheep

The Sydney Herald · Monday 16 July 1838 · page 2

The gentleman who translated a few passages from a German work on the Sheep-pock, which were printed in a late number of the Sydney Herald newspaper, is of opinion, that, what in New…

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Miscellanea. Lincolnshire Goose Farm

The Sydney Monitor · Monday 16 July 1838 · page 4

At ten o'clock, when I arrived on the premises. two hundred and sixty geese had been already barbarously assassinated out of six hundred, the number on that day…

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SHEEP-POCK. (Continued from Herald, July 13.)

The Sydney Herald · Friday 20 July 1838 · page 3

The first was a flock of fine-woolled travelling Merino rams (Merinos trashumantes); the other, a flock of stationary sheep (Merinos estantes). The rams were in good condition and of various…

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