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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1842

126 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 7

Alpaca Wool

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 5 May 1842 · page 2

It may appear somewhat mal apropos just now, to urge upon the capitalists of this colony. any scheme requiring th outlay of money to any considerable amount, when the general cry of…

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Wool Sales. To the Edi'or of the Sydney Gazette

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 5 May 1842 · page 2

SIR, Not seeing in any of your contemporaries of yesterday's date a late account of wool sales, I beg to send you the enclosed account, which I…

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Wool

The New South Wales Examiner · Saturday 7 May 1842 · page 3
Also in Sydney Free Press, The Australian

AUSTRALIAN AND VAN DI[?]MEN'S LAND, -- 1st combing, 1s 10d to 2s 4d ; second ditto, 1s 6d to 1s 10d ; third ditto, 1s 2d to 1s 7d; grease. 8d to 1s ; first clothing, 1s 9d to 2s 4d ; second…

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Liverpool Wool Sales

Sydney Free Press · Tuesday 10 May 1842 · page 2

WE regret to perceive that, notwithstanding the encouraging remark of a tendency to rise in the price of Australian Wool, which was made in the London journals of…

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Liverpool Wool Circular, January 16

Sydney Free Press · Tuesday 10 May 1842 · page 2

The year commenced with a lively demand for wools of all descriptions. In the month of January, an extensive business was done in anticipation of a good spring trade, which…

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Mr. Macarthur and the Fine Wool of Australia

The Australian · Tuesday 10 May 1842 · page 2

Minerva and Ceres had temples erected to them for a supposed introduction of the olive and barely cultivation into Greece; and had the heathen mythology now existed. Arkwright and Watt…

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[?]Al Correspondence. Smut in Wheat. [?] the Editors of the Sydney Herald

The Sydney Herald · Monday 16 May 1842 · page 3

[?]EMEN,—In your journal of the 2nd [?] was inserted, under the heading of [?] in Wheat," a communication stating some petson in Scotland had been…

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Country News. the Getting Up of Wool

Sydney Free Press · Tuesday 17 May 1842 · page 2

THE prosperity of the Colony so evidently depends upon the celebrity which its great and only article of export, viz., Wool, continues to maintain in the European…

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Original Correspondence. Smut in Wheat. To the Editors of the Sydney Herald

The Sydney Herald · Tuesday 17 May 1842 · page 2

GENTLEMEN,—Observing in the Herald, more than one communication recommending certain steps to prevent smut in wheat; I beg to state, that all such nostrums are now well…

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Original Correspondence. Smut in Wheat. To the Editors of the Sydney Herald

The Sydney Herald · Friday 20 May 1842 · page 2

GENTLEMEN,—The best reply to Mr. James Rennie's letter, in your journal of this, day, is an appeal to facts. Before I left England, I was directed by an esteemed…

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Smut in Wheat. To the Editors of the Sydney Herald

The Sydney Herald · Monday 23 May 1842 · page 2

GENTLEMEN,—In the Herald, of this day, I observe a letter, signed E. W. Rudder, who seems to have put himself in a towering passion, and has written, it would appear, more…

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Smut in Wheat. To the Editors of the Sydney Herald

The Sydney Herald · Wednesday 25 May 1842 · page 3

GENTLEMEN, — Notwithstanding Professor Rennie, with more confidence than complaisance, pronounces all steeps for seed wheat to prevent the smut to be vulgar cr[?]ors…

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Wool

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 26 May 1842 · page 2

THE following table, showing the quantity of wool imported into London and Liverpool in the years 1840 and 1841, is very interesting, as showing the comparative…

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Wool Oil, and Whalebone

The Australian · Thursday 26 May 1842 · page 2

The following correspondence has been handed to us for publication, being addressed to a respectable mercantile house in Sydney. It will be read with great interest by those trading in the articles…

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Cattle Feeding

The New South Wales Examiner · Saturday 28 May 1842 · page 4

The mania for feeding bullocks and other cattle to an extreme weight, which, has prevailed amongst breeders and agriculturalists of late years, has brought to…

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WOOL. London, 18th January, 1842

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 31 May 1842 · page 2

Deah SIR,—We beg to hand you the annexed statement of the importation of wool in 1841, which shows a considerable increase in Australian, when compared with 1840; an…

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Smut in Wheat. To the Editors of the Sydney Herald

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 9 June 1842 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—Once more, if you will permit me, and I close the scene, at least on the subject of the "Smut in Wheat." I have, however, been so frequently requested to…

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Wheat

Sydney Free Press · Saturday 18 June 1842 · page 2

OF all those kind of grain which are cultivated for Bread Corn, wheat takes the first rank, and almost numberless varieties are grown under denominations given to the numerous species…

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