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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1840

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High Price of Wheat

Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Saturday 18 April 1840 · page 2

Nothing that the press has advanced with respect to the state of the country, particularly with regard to the declared scarcity of, wheat, seems likely to arouse the…

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Fat Cattle Company. to the Editor of the Colonist

The Colonist · Saturday 18 April 1840 · page 2

Sir,—The circumstance of your paper having been much occupied with the proposed establishment of the Fat Cattle Slaughtering Company, must prove my apology for requesting your…

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Foreign Wool Market, Monday, Nov.25

The Australian · Thursday 23 April 1840 · page 2

We have had another heavy week as relates to the transactions in all descriptions of foreign wool, and the prices have a downward tendency. The imports have…

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London Wool Sales

Australasian Chronicle · Friday 24 April 1840 · page 2

MR. EDITOR—The third series of public sales of this season's colonial wools commenced on Thursday, the 17th instant, and ended on Thursday, the 24th instant. The catalogues comprise the following…

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Wool Sales. London, October 16, 1839. To the Editor of the Sydney Gazette

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 25 April 1840 · page 2

SIR, The third series of public sales of this season's Colonial wools, commenced on Thursday, the 17th, and ended on…

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Wool Sales. London, October 26, 1839. to the Editor of the Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Monday 27 April 1840 · page 3

Sir,—The third series of public sales of thi season's Colonial wools, commenced on Thursday the 17th, and ended on Thursday the 24th inst. The catalogues comprised the following…

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Wool & Oil

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Monday 4 May 1840 · page 4

THE WOOL TRADE.—The accounts by the Marmion reach to the latter end ,of December, but we are sorry to say, they exhibit not the slightest symptoms of improvement in the wool…

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Wool and Temperance. Temperance and Wool. To the Editor of the Sydney Herald

The Sydney Herald · Monday 4 May 1840 · page 1

SIR,—I am convinced your notice of the Temperance Meeting, united with other agencies to produce the noble assemblage of Tuesday evening; and I am sure you will be ready to promote the…

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The Wool Market

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 5 May 1840 · page 1

LEEDS.—Although we had more business done in the hall on Tuesday than has been done on any day For the last two months, yet it has neither increased the demand for more wool, nor put the…

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Fat Cattle Company. to the Editor of the Colonist. Campbelltown, May 14, 1840

The Colonist · Saturday 16 May 1840 · page 2

SIR,—Since my last letter on the subject of the formation of a Fat Cattle Company, in consequence of the Prospectus inviting the graziers to unite for the purpose of protecting their own…

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Wool Trade of 1840. Athertons building, Dale-street, 31st Dec 1830

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Monday 18 May 1840 · page 3

SIR.—The demand for Foreign Wool, during the past year was steady and, on the whole, satisfactory, up to the month of October, when the pressure on the money market, during a long period of increasing severity…

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Wool

The Australian · Tuesday 19 May 1840 · page 2

GENTLEMEN—In the first four months of the year there was a fair extent of business done in every description of wool, and prices kept tolerably steady until May…

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WOOL. Liverpool, December 31, 1839

The Colonist · Wednesday 20 May 1840 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—In the first four months of the year there ,was a fair extent of business done in every description of wool, and prices kept tolerably steady until May, when the demand became…

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WOOL. Liverpool, December 31st, 1839

Australasian Chronicle · Friday 22 May 1840 · page 2

GENTLEMEN,—In the first four months of the year there was a fair extent of business done in every description of wool, and prices kept tolerably steady until May, when the demand became languid and…

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Fluctuation in the Price of Wheat and Its Consequences

Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Saturday 23 May 1840 · page 4

It is a well-established fact that dear bread is always accompanied with general distress. It is therefore that we have argued, however it may be at variance…

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London Wool Market. B. P. free—Others 0½d.—If of the value of 1s. per 1b., or upwards, 1d. per 1b

The Sydney Herald · Monday 25 May 1840 · page 6

BRITISH FLEECES.—N. and S. Down Hoggets 1s. 6d., to 1s. 7d. per 1b.; Half-bred do. 1s. 6d, to 1s. 7d.; Ewes clothing 1s. 2d. to 1s. 4d.; Kent Fleeces 1s. 3d. to 1s. 6d.; Combing Skins 1s. 3d. to 1s. 7d.;…

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Small Farms. To the Editor of the Sydney Herald

The Sydney Herald · Monday 25 May 1840 · page 5

SIR.—I doubt not that many of the old Colonists could speak much better on the advantage of small farms than I can, as they [?]ecollect the early years of the Colony when scarcity and…

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Oils and Wool. State of Trade in February

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Wednesday 24 June 1840 · page 2

OILS.—Sperm continues to go of in small quantities at high prices, and there is little to be had. We reduce our quotations of the common descriptions of Fish Oils 10s. to 20s. per tun,…

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Wool Sales

The Australian · Thursday 25 June 1840 · page 2

The following Wool Sales were effected on the 30th and 3lst January, 1840—56 Bales Australian; 28 Bales Port Phillip:…

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Wool Sales

The Sydney Herald · Friday 26 June 1840 · page 2

We have been favored with the loan of Account Sales of 566 bales of Australian Wool, and 28 from Port Phillip, by which it will appear there has been a slight…

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