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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1842

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

Wool and Woollens

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 December 1842 · page 2

A VERY excellent woik entitled "A Comprehensive Histroy of the Woollen and Worsted Manufacturers, and the Natural and Commercial History of Sheep, from the…

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English Extract. Wool and Woollens. (Extracts from Mr. Bischoff's book on Wool.) Sale of Part of His MAJESTY's Flock of Sheep in 1804. (From the Morning Chronicle.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 December 1842 · page 4

IT is a singular circumstance, considering the great length of time that fine or broad woollen cloths have been in use in Europe, that the wool from a particular breed of…

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Abstract of Evidence Given Before the House of Lords, on the Probable Increase of the Supply of Wool From Australia

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 December 1842 · page 4

Mr. Henry Hughes, Woolbroker, London.—I am acquainted with the wools grown in the Colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land. The quantity…

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Original Correspondence. Profits of Sheep Farming. To the Editors, of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 December 1842 · page 2

GENTLEMEN.—In your publication of the 6th instant, a correspondent, who adopts the letter G. as his signature, in advertising to my calculations on the expenses and returns of sheep farming, published in The Herald of the 25th November last, expresses great disappointment at what he terms the "numerous extraordinary blunders" with which…

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Original Correspondence. Sheep Farming. [?] the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 December 1842 · page 3

[?]TLEMEN.—"Let the truth be told," but [?]re is he who'll tell it?—where is it to be [?] In the lengthened statine; [?] of [?] "G.," or "Justitia?'…

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Wool and Oil

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 31 December 1842 · page 2

Quantity of Wool and Oil exported from Sydney to London, during the half-year ending 31st December, 1842. Anne, 212 tons, Simpson, master, 515 bales…

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