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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1841

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Wool Trade

The Sydney Herald · Wednesday 6 January 1841 · page 2

We call the particular attention of our mercantile readers to the interesting tables respecting the English wool trade, which appear in another part of this journal…

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Gardeners' and Farmers' Calendar for January

The Australian · Saturday 9 January 1841 · page 2

The Garden.—Sow Cabbage; brocoll, early in the month; cauliflowers; carrots; parsnips; French beans; celery. The Orchard.—Bud trees…

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Wool. Australian and Van Diemen's Land.—

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Monday 18 January 1841 · page 2

AUSTRALIAN AND VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.—1st Combing 1s 8d to 2s 3d; 2nd ditto 1s 5d to 1s 8d; 3rd ditto, 1s to 1s 5d; Grease, 6d to 10d; 1st Clothing, 1s 7d to 2s 2d; 2nd ditto,…

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State of the Wool Trade

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 19 January 1841 · page 3

ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, Sept. 7.—We have had another brisk market today, and flannels have met with a ready sale at former prices; the wool market has also been good, but no change in…

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Sydney Monitor & Commercial Advertiser Wednesday Morning, January 20, 1841. Nothing extenuate, nor aught set down in malice. SHAKSPEARE. The Wool Trade

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Wednesday 20 January 1841 · page 2

Sales of Colonial Wools are announced to be held at Liverpool on the 17th and 18th September, and in London at the end of the same month. It is likewise intimated that, for the…

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The Wool Market. From the Times, September 28

The Sydney Herald · Friday 22 January 1841 · page 2

LEEDS.— We had a fair demand for cloth last Saturday, but on tuesday the market was as flat as usual; the demand, however, in the warehouses continues moderate; and all sorts of…

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Wool

The Sydney Herald · Saturday 23 January 1841 · page 2

WE have been favoured by W. C. Botts, Esq., with the circular of highly respectable Wool Brokers in London, which we give below, regretting their remarks, with…

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Wool

The Sydney Herald · Tuesday 26 January 1841 · page 2

LETTERS have been received in Sydney by the Orient, from which we are happy to learn that the Wool Trade is recovering from its late depression, wc have been…

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Gardeners' and Farmers' Calendar for January

The Australian · Saturday 30 January 1841 · page 2

The Garden.—Sow Cabbage; broroli, early in the month; cauliflowers; carrots; parsnips; French beans celery. The Orchard.—Bud trees…

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Wool

The Sydney Herald · Tuesday 2 February 1841 · page 2

WE have great pleasure in stating that the rumours of an advance in the price of woll of 2d. Per pound turns out to be correct, as will be seen on reference to the…

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The Govenment Gazette. Sale of Cattle

The Sydney Herald · Tuesday 2 February 1841 · page 4

NOTICE.---The undermentioned Cattle, found in the possession of James Farney, whose ticket of Leave was cancelled in the month of September, 1839, and his property confiscated, will be…

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English Intelligence. Wool Markets

The Australian · Thursday 4 February 1841 · page 3

We have been furnished with the following information relative to the progress of the colonial wool sales, now in progress; and to which we have previously referred…

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Gardener's and Farmers' Calendar for February

The Australian · Thursday 4 February 1841 · page 2

The Garden.—Plant potatoes; prepare ground foturnips; sow artichokes, celery, cauliflower, brocoli peas, and broad beans. The Orchard.—All tender trees are best budded in…

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WOOL. (From the Launceston Advertiser.)

The Sydney Herald · Saturday 6 February 1841 · page 4

On perusing the letter of Messrs. Simes, Marsh and Co., with your remarks thereon, my attention has been directed to the vast importance of the subject, as being a matter of profit…

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Port Phillip Wool. September 29

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Monday 8 February 1841 · page 2

Ex Hindostan.—O Co, 25 bales at 17hd, 49 at 18d; 10 at 14hd; 11 at 18hd; 18 at 19d; 4 at 15d; 28 at 17d; 5 at 19hd; 16 at 23hd; 5 at 14d; 3 at 16d; 1 at 13d; 11 at 16hd 2 at…

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Wool Sales. London, September 29, 1840

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Monday 8 February 1841 · page 2

Ex Kinnear.—Ty. 4 bales 1s 11d; 14 at 1s 11[?]d; 3 at 1s 6¼d; 18 at 1s 8½d; 3 at 1s 7d; 3 at 1s 4d, 6 at 1s 6d; 5 at 1s 5¼d; 4at 1s 5d; 2 at 10d' 2 at 1s 2½d; and 3 at 1s…

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Price Current of Colonial Wool London, October 9Th, 1840

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Monday 8 February 1841 · page 2

AUSTRALIAN FLOCKS.—Good Combing, is 9d. to 2s. 6½d.; superior clothing, in superior conditon, 2s. 4d. to 3s. 1d.; good ditto in fair and good ditto, Is. 7d. to 2s. 2d.; good and…

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Sheep Farming

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 9 February 1841 · page 2

SIR,—A your reporter appears to have misunderstood some expressions which fell from me at the public meeting of Thursday, relative to sheep farming in New South Wales, perhaps you will…

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Wool Markets

The Australian · Tuesday 9 February 1841 · page 3

We give the following abstract of the Wool Stiles afflicted up to the 10th of October last, being a continuation of those laid before our readers in the last two…

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On Bleeding of Sheep

The Temperance Advocate and Australasian Commercial and Agricultural Intelligencer · Wednesday 10 February 1841 · page 9

As bleeding is an operation indispensably necessary, in braxy as well as many other diseases to which sheep are liable, it may hot here be improper to insert the…

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