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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1839

171 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 9

Wool Ships burnt at Sea. to the Editor of the [?] Sydney, May 7, 1839

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Friday 10 May 1839 · page 2

SIR,—I have postponed troubling you with a few remarks on the communication of a Correpondent M. D. relative to the burning of the Despatch, in the hope, that some of your scientific readers…

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Price Current of Colonial Wool

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Wednesday 15 May 1839 · page 2

For Australian Flocks. 1st rate Combing 2 4 ,, 2 8[?] First rate Clothing 2 2 ,, 2 7 ,, Scoured 2 5[?] ,, 3 4 2nd rate Combing 1 8 ,, 2 3…

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Price Current of Colonial Wool

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Wednesday 15 May 1839 · page 2

The Sales of Colonial Wool just ended, comprised a much less quantity than usual, and the Buyers being numerous and the demand very good; the prices realised are 10 per cent higher than those of…

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Price Current of Colonial Wool

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Wednesday 15 May 1839 · page 2

The Public Sales of Colonial Wool during last Week amounted to— 1743 Bales Australian Wool 1482 „ Van Diemen's Land…

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Wool and Oil

The Sydney Herald · Friday 17 May 1839 · page 2

SIR.—We beg leave to inform you, that our Public Sales of Wo[?] which commenced on the 12th Instant, terminated on Saturday the 15th. The Catalogues comprised 6163 bales, of which,…

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Wool and Oil. (Circular.)

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 May 1839 · page 3

SIR.—We beg leave to inform you, that our Public Sales of Wool, which commenced on the 12th Instant, terminated on Saturday the 15th. The…

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Advance Australia Sydney Gazette. Saturday, May 18, 1839. The Wool Trade

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 May 1839 · page 2

WE extract the following paragraph from Messrs. MARSH & EDENBOROUGH'S circular letter accompanying the account of the December wool sales, which has…

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London Markets. the Wool Trade

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Monday 20 May 1839 · page 3

TRADE OF LEEDS.—The quantity of goods sold at the Cloth-halls this week has again been below an average of the quantity sold weekly during the last three months; yet from the state of the weather…

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[?]Ey Monitor & Commercial Advertiser Monday Morning, May 20, 1839. Nothing extenuate, nor aught set down in malice. SHAKESPEARE. Fraud in Packing Wool

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Monday 20 May 1839 · page 2

SIR.—We beg leave to inform you, that the public Sales of Wool, which commenced on the 12th instant, terminated on Saturday the 15th. The Catalogues comprised 6162 bales, of which,…

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Wool

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Wednesday 29 May 1839 · page 2

By the tables published below, it will be seen, that the quantity of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land wool Imported into London in 1888, was 27,126 bales; in 1837. 22,984 bales, and…

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Samples of Wool

The Sydney Herald · Wednesday 29 May 1839 · page 2

We have the pleasure of laying before our renders the Report, just received per Steamer, of one of the most eminent Liverpool brokers, on some Samples of Wool forwarded by the Bombay…

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Fraud in Packing Wool. London, December 20, 1838

The Colonist · Wednesday 29 May 1839 · page 2

SIR,—We beg leave to inform you, that the Public Sales of Wool, which commenced on the 12th instant terminated on Saturday the l5th. The Catalogues…

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Sydney Monitor & Commercial Advertiser Wednesday Morning, May 29, 1839. Nothing extenuate, nor aught set down is malice. SHAKESPEARE. Wool

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Wednesday 29 May 1839 · page 2

WOOL—The prices which Colonial wool sometimes bring in comparison with the wools of other countries, shew, that there must be something wrong in the system of disposing of Colonial wools in England. Fine well…

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WHEAT. (From the Tasmanian of May 17.)

The Australian · Saturday 1 June 1839 · page 3

We refer our readers to the more attack on the sowing of wheat, copied as under, from the Farmer's Magazine; and we [?] hone our enterprising…

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Catarrh in Sheep

The Sydney Herald · Monday 3 June 1839 · page 2

Extract of a letter dated Bogolong, 27th May, 1839:—"It I were to tell you that I got well thus far, the truth would not be in me; for who the devil could get well up in that jolting…

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The Wool Trade

The Sydney Herald · Monday 3 June 1839 · page 2

LEEDS.—A very fair business has been this week in both cloth-halls, considering [?] rity of the weather, but very little ani[?] been observable in the warehouses, very few[?]…

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Seed Wheat. To the Editor of the Sydney Herald

The Sydney Herald · Monday 3 June 1839 · page 2

SIR,—Some time ago Government issued [?] culars to the different Benches, making [?] what quantity of seed wheat would be [?] for the separate districts. A month or [?]…

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Extracts. Wheat

Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Wednesday 12 June 1839 · page 4

We refer our readers to the able article on the sowing of wheat, copied, as under, from the Farmer's Magazine ; and we earnestly hope our enterprising agriculturists…

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Extracts. New Breeds of Sheep. Copy of a Letter From C. T. Tower, Esq., to Earl Spencer. Weald Hall, D.c. 15, 1838

The Sydney Herald · Friday 14 June 1839 · page 3

DEAR LORD SPENCER.—My friend and neighbour Lord Western, in his letter to you of recent publication, propounds three modes, by either of which he states a new brced of sheepmay becreated…

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Making of Butter

Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Saturday 15 June 1839 · page 4

We always got up at five o'clock in summer, and even before on churning mornings--in winter, at half-past five or six. We milked the cows the very first thing, and put the milk…

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