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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1839

171 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 9

Rice and Wheat [?]ad

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 6 August 1839 · page 1

We copy from the Sydney Gazette the following economical method of making bread by the introduction of a portion Rice. As that article is now plentiful and cheap. I…

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Journal of a Tour. Western and South-westerly, &c., Across the Mountains, in Search of Sheep and Cattle Stations, Comprising All Lars Incident of the Journey, State of the Country, &c., &c. No. I.

Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Saturday 17 August 1839 · page 3

It was on the 27th of May last, 1839, in the evening, that myself and fellow-traveller sat down to dinner at the "Governor Bourke Inn," Emu Ford, with a few more relatives, who…

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The Wool Markets

The Australian · Thursday 5 September 1839 · page 2

Leeds.—Foreign: The depression be fore noticed continues, and increases rather than otherwise. A dearth of demand for the manufactured article is…

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Original Correspondence. WHEAT. To the Editor of the Australian

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 5 September 1839 · page 3

SIR, I beg to request you will be good enough to contradict the statement that appeared in your paper of Saturday last,…

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WOOL. To the Editor of The Australian

The Australian · Saturday 14 September 1839 · page 2

SIR—We beg to inform you of the termination, on Saturday the 4th instant, of the Public Sales of Wool; the quantity offered was but small, being the…

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Wool Sales. To the Editor of the Sydney Gazette

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 September 1839 · page 2

SIR, We beg to inform you of the termination, on Saturday, the 4th instant, of the Public Sales of Wool, the quantity offered…

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South Australia. Importation of Sheep Overland

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Monday 16 September 1839 · page 2

We have the very great satisfaction of announcing, that the second attempt to import sheep overland from New South Wales, has been altogether successful. Mr. Sturt, the younger brother…

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WOOL. To the Editor of the Sydney Herald

The Sydney Herald · Monday 16 September 1839 · page 1

SIR.—We beg to inform you of the termination on Saturday, the 4th instant, of the public sales of wool. The quantity offered was but small, being the remnant of last year's clip. The catalogues comprised…

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The English Wheat Trade. Enumeration and Notice of Acts of Parliament for the Regulation of the Trade in Wheat

Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Wednesday 18 September 1839 · page 3

It is now twenty-two years since a generally deficient harvest has been experienced in this country, and since 1816 we have had but two years in which the crops threatened the country…

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The English Wheat Trade. Enumeration and Notice of Acts of Parliament for the Regulation of the Trade in Wheat. (Continued.)

Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Saturday 21 September 1839 · page 3

A considerable period elapsed before the foreign trade in wheat or other grain again became the object of any new enactments. In the mean time, the home trade was frequently…

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The English Wheat Trade. Enumeration and Notice of Acts of Parliament for the Regulation of the Trade in Wheat. (Continued.)

Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Wednesday 25 September 1839 · page 3

In 1571 a statute was passed in which an attempt seems to have been made to place the trade in corn on a more systematic footing. It contains provisions for settling once a year the…

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Wool

The Sydney Herald · Monday 30 September 1839 · page 2

We have been favored by Mr. E. Lord with the following extract of a letter from Liverpool of the 6th May, respecting the Wool Trade;—…

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Wool. Report of the Woollen Trade

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Wednesday 2 October 1839 · page 2

MAY 1, 1839.—It is again our duty to record a month of unsatisfactory transactions,—unsatisfactory both us to the quantity of business done and the rate of prices. Many English and Irish…

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Wool

The Australian · Thursday 3 October 1839 · page 2

WE have been favoured by Mr E. Lord with the following extract of it letter from Liverpool of the 6th May, respecting the Wool Trade:—…

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The English Wheat Trade. Enumeration and Notice of Acts of Parliament for the Regulation of the Trade in Wheat. (Continued.)

Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Saturday 5 October 1839 · page 3

11. From 1688 to 1773. -- 1680 the statute was passed which allowed a bounty on exportation. Its object, as expressed in the title, was "for encouraging the exportation of corn"…

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Tea and Wheat

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Monday 7 October 1839 · page 3

The following are all the date we can get together respecting the arrival of Tea and Wheat in Van Dieman's Land. We shall make no comments…

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Sheep Farming. [?] the Editor of the Madras Spectator

The Sydney Herald · Monday 14 October 1839 · page 1

[?] you have ever liberally admitted the dis[?] columns of such topics as are fraught [?] interest—I beg a place in your valuable [?] introduce both to your Editorial self, and…

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Sydney Monitor & Commercial Advertiser Friday, Morning, October 18, 1839. Nothing extenuate, nor ought set down in malice. Shakespeare. the Clothing Manufactures. Wool

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Friday 18 October 1839 · page 2

LONDON WOOL SALES.—At the series of public sales of colonial and other wools which commenced on Thursday and terminated late on Saturday Evening, there was a full attendance of…

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The English Wheat Trade. Enumeration and Notice of Acts of Parliament for the Regulation of the Trade in Wheat. (Continued.)

Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Saturday 19 October 1839 · page 3

The publication of the averages weekly was a most beneficial innovation. The 'London Gazette' of 24th November, 1770, contains the first abstract of the weekly returns. It was…

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The Enghmsh Wheat Trade. Enumeration and Notice of Acts of Parliament for the Regulation of the Trade I N Wheat. (Continued.)

Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Saturday 26 October 1839 · page 3

IV. From 1791 to 1804, No alteration in the scale of duties on importation had been made by the act of l788-9, although the effect of the act of 1773 had for some time been descried as…

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