Catarrh in Sheep
Extract of a letter from Murrumbidgee, dated 8th June, 1839.—Horse stealing has made its reappearance again here, a fellow, no doubt a runaway convict, was detected in the very act of…
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English Markets. Liverpool Wool Market, Feb. 8
SCOTCH.—The demand for laid Highland Wool was languid throughout the week, but holders were not anxious to press sales, and the stock being light, the rates remain unaltered. White Highland Cross…
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Indian corn, zea, is a well known and useful plant of the grain kind. It is called maize in most countries, zea in some. The parts of generation are on different parts of the same plant…
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Friday week, 1135 bales of Australian Wool, and about 1500 bales of various other descriptions, were brought to public sale. There was, as usual, a good attendance of buyers, and the…
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We learn that wool experienced a fall in price at the last Liverpool sale. It is said that this declension in price was occasioned partly by the failure, for nearly half a…
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THE reports by the Honduras from the manufacturing districts, of the state of the wool market, are not quite so favourable as the previous advices. The season, (January and February; invariably…
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WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, FEB. 15—The transactions of this week are characterized by increased dullness in the trade for both long and short Wool, and prices remain at about the…
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Yesterday week, 1135 bales of Australian Wool and about 1500 bules of various other descriptions, were brought to public sale. There was, as usual, a good attendance of buyers, and the whole of the…
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C & H—H & B—10 hales, at 1.9½d—14 at 1s 10½d—7 at 1s 10d—3 at 1s 8½d—4 at 1s 10d—10 at 1s 1ld. C & H—H & B—R—3 bales, at 1s 3d—1 at…
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[?] WOOL THADE, London, Thursday Evening. [?] The Wool market continues pretty [?]rm. The [?] public sales are announced to take place some next month. The imports in the week…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On the Cultivation of Tobacco. (From the New-England Farmer.)
Nicotiana, a well known narcotic plant, which has become very important, in Europe und America, since Sir Walter Raleigh imported it into England, and is veiy generally used, in one way…
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It may be safely affirmed that both transportation to this colony, and immigration, will fail to supply the requisite number of shepherds and herdsmen for our increasing flocks and herds; and,…
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Bartholomew Nason, Esq., late of Augusta, now of Hallowell, remarkable for his plain, practical common sense, observed in conversation, that he thought he had made quite an…
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LEEDS.—The demand in beth our halls for the last week has been more animated since the preceding week, with every appearance of a long continuance; the prices…
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SIR,—The Public Sales of Colonial and Wool which commenced on the 1st instant, terminated on Tuesday, the 5th. The Catalogues comprised 2,767 Colonial, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Monitor & Commercial Advertiser. Friday Morning, July 26, 1839. Nothing [?]tenunte. nor ought set do[?] mulire. SHAKESPEARE. London Wool Sales
THE Catalogues of the March London Wool Sales indicate no perceptible alteration in state of the Wool Trade; but in the opinion of the London Brokers, the prices of December last,, are fully…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Advance Australia Sydney Gazette. Tuesday, July 30, 1839. The Wheat Market[?]
Certain of our contemporaries have taken occasion from the late excessive rise in the price of wheat and flour to give utterance to a series of strictures on the…
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Under the above head, the Gazette has taken up cudgels in defence of the Executive Government, against the strictures upon the same which have emanated from the…
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The general state of commence during the past month has not been very satisfactory. In America, affairs are somewhat better adjusted, and there is every reason…
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Simmer 1 lb. Rice in 2 quarts of water till it becomes perfectly soft; when it is of a proper warmth mix it extremely well with 4 lbs. Flour and yeast and salt…
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