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Farming & the land, 1840

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Sydney Markets. Flour, Wheat, &c

Australasian Chronicle · Thursday 19 November 1840 · page 3

Fine Flour, 20s [?] 100lbs Seconds, 21s Ration, 17s Bread, 6d to 7d per 2lb loaf…

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The Emigrant Farmers

The Sydney Herald · Friday 20 November 1840 · page 2

We perceive in the Atlas, which, though usually a well-conducted paper, is grossly misinformed[?]regarding the affairs of this colony, some most unjust and unfounded statements…

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Wheat, Flour, and Bread

The Colonist · Tuesday 24 November 1840 · page 2

THERE has been a great outcry in the public journals about the millers having raised the price of flour, and they have been castigated right and left,—people…

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Sydney Markets. Flour, Wheat, &c

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 24 November 1840 · page 3

Highes & Hoskings' Mills—Fine Flour, 21s per 100lbs Seconds, 18s Ration, 15s…

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On the External Forms of Sheep of a Good Disposition

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Tuesday 24 November 1840 · page 3

I believe that there is a certain form regularly attached to sheep of a good disposition, which form I shall endeavour to describe. 1st, Sheep must be well bred; that is,…

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To Farmers

The Temperance Advocate and Australasian Commercial and Agricultural Intelligencer · Wednesday 25 November 1840 · page 3

An intelligent, industrious, prudent, and temperate farmer, is the pride of the Colony. His employment is one of the most noble, and independent in which man can engage ; it is…

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New Zealand Wool

The Sydney Herald · Saturday 5 December 1840 · page 2

In a late number of the Dublin Evening Mail we find the following:— The following is the opinion of a Liverpool wool-broker, respecting the quality of a small…

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Sydney Markets. Flour, Wheat, etc

Australasian Chronicle · Thursday 10 December 1840 · page 3

Hughes & Hoskings Mails— Colonial Wheat, 5s to 7s 0d per Fine Flour 21s per 100lbs bushel Seconds, 10s. Maize, 3s 6d to 4s per bushel [?], 16s Barley, 6s 6d per bushel…

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Wool

The Colonist · Thursday 17 December 1840 · page 3
Also in The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser

BY the Lady M'Naughten, which arrived yesterday from London, we have received the following fam Messrs. Marsh and Edenborough:— TO THE EDITOR OF THE COLONIST…

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London Wool Market. To the Editor of the Sydney Herald. London, August 13, 1840

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 17 December 1840 · page 2

SIR,—The Public Sales of Wool, which commenced on the 30th ultimo, concluded on Monday, the 10th Instant. The Catalogue comprised 6924 Australian…

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Liverpool Wool Market. We have been favoured by Messrs[?] A. B. Smith & Co. with the following Circular and Account Sales at Liverpool. Liverpool, 25th July, 1840

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 17 December 1840 · page 2

DEAR SIRS—The public sales of wool held here yesterday, collected a fair attendance of buyers from the country, considering the limited quantity of New South Wales that was offered…

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E[?]tracts. Instructions to Sheep Farmers, About the Scurvy in Sheep. ([?] the [?]d Afrikaan.)

The Sydney Herald · Friday 18 December 1840 · page 4

We have been favoured by the Cape Town Agricultural Society Committee, for publication with the following translation of a German pamphlet, intituled, " Plain and easy Instructions…

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The Wool Market

The Sydney Herald · Friday 18 December 1840 · page 2

The following particulars respecting the Wool Market are in addition to the very full reports which we published yesterday:—…

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The Wool Trade

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Friday 18 December 1840 · page 2

GUIDED by the reports of the London brokers, we said, in our yesterday's number, that the August wool sales had gone off at a trifling reduction on the prices of the previous sales…

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Liverpool Wool Sale—july 24

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Friday 18 December 1840 · page 2

Ex William Carsy—JH over NSW, 4 b[?]es at 1s 7d, 4 at 1s 5d, 4 at 1s 5½d; diamond H over JJC, 5 at 1s 6½d, 5 at 1s 5½d, 4 at 1s 6d, 4 at 1s 4½d, 4 at 1s 4d, 3 at 1s 5d; MK,…

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London Wool Market. London August, 13, 1840

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Friday 18 December 1840 · page 2

SIR.—The Public Sales of Wool, which, commenced on the 30th ultimo, concluded on Monday the 10th Instant. The Catalogue comprised 6924 Australian…

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Liverpool Wool Sales. Liverpool, 25th July, 1840

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Friday 18 December 1840 · page 2

DEAR SIRS—The public sales of wool held here yesterday, collected a fair attendance of buyers from the country, considering the limited quantity of New South Wales that was offered…

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Wool Sales

The Colonist · Saturday 19 December 1840 · page 3

SUBJOINED we give accounts of the average prices realised at the public Wool Sales in London, from the 30th July to the 10th of August. Ex Orient.—MB J. under, 21 bales, at 1s…

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English Intelligence. Wool Market. (From the Times, August 23.)

The Australian · Saturday 19 December 1840 · page 2

LEEDS.—We have no improvement to notice this week in either of our cloth halls, but we are glad to say things are no worse. The clothiers feed the market very moderately, which causes…

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