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Farming & the land, 1845

348 stories in Sydney's papers · page 15 of 18

Gardeners' and Farmers' Calendar September

The Australian · Saturday 27 September 1845 · page 4

The, Garden.—Plant potatoes early; sow turnips, peas, beans, cucumbers, pumpkins, melons, spinach, French beans, and vegetable marrow; plant out celery; transplant parsnips…

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Australian Wheat

The Australian · Tuesday 30 September 1845 · page 3

LET those who intend taking an active part at the meeting, to be hold on Monday next—relative to the refusal of the Home Government to admit our Wheat into the English…

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Public Sales of Colonial Wool

The Australian · Tuesday 30 September 1845 · page 3

The first series of Sales of Colonial Wool of this season commenced 13th and concluded 28th May, the quantity offered consisted of:—Australian..................5,800 bales…

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Gardeners' and Farmers' Calendar. October

The Australian · Thursday 2 October 1845 · page 4

The Garden.—Hill and clean potatoes; sow peas and beans, cabbape, French beans; transplant capsicums, chillies, and egg-plant; guard against insects; clean the garden throughout…

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Friday, September 26. Sheep-stealing

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 October 1845 · page 2

George Smith alias Green, ticket-of-leave, and William Danny, free by servitude, were arraigned for sheep-stealing; Smith pleaded guilty, and was removed from the bar; the…

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News From the Interior. (From our various Correspondents.) Parramatta. Wool Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 October 1845 · page 3

A Public Meeting was held at Mr. M'Kay's Inn, the Australian Arms, on Monday evening, for the purpose of receiving the report of the Committee appointed at a meeting some…

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Cattle Market

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 4 October 1845 · page 3

Eleven Milch cows were sold this week ,and although they were, in rather low condition some of them brought £3 15s. per head, while others sold so low as £1 15s, the average price as about 61s. each…

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The Parramatta Wool Market

The Cumberland Times and Western Advertiser · Saturday 4 October 1845 · page 2

A mere precis of the meeting held at Mr. M'Kay's, on Monday evening is all that can be attempted. It would require three-fourths of this Journal to report all that was said and done, and were it given the reader…

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Public Sales of Colonial Wool

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 4 October 1845 · page 255

We rejoice that we are enabled to report, in the month of May, the result of the first series of Colonial Wool Sales of the present season. We have long urged the advantage of extending the…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Monday, October 6, 1845 "Sworn to no master, of no sect am I." Australian Wheat

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 October 1845 · page 2

WE do not think it necessary to do more than remind our readers that the meeting to petition against the injustice of the House of Commons, in refusing to admit…

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Australian Wheat

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 October 1845 · page 2

WE never attended a meeting in the colony at which so much unanimity existed as was displayed at that held at the City Theatre yesterday, for the purpose…

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Australian Wheat

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 October 1845 · page 2

A PUBLIC meeting was held in the City Theatre, Market-street, yesterday, for the purpose of considering the adoption of a petition to the House of Commons of Great Britain and…

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Gardeners' and Farmers' Calendar October

The Australian · Tuesday 7 October 1845 · page 4

The Garden.—Hill and clean potatoes; sow peas and beans, cabbape, French beans; transplant capsicums, chillies, and egg-plant; guard against insects; clean the garden throughout…

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Public Meeting in Favour of the Introduction of Australian Wheat Into the United Kingdom

The Sentinel · Wednesday 8 October 1845 · page 2

ON Monday evening last a very respectable meeting was held at the City Theatre, for the purpose of adopting a petition to the House of Commons, praying that corn, the produce of the Australian…

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Gardeners' and Farmers' Calender October

The Australian · Thursday 9 October 1845 · page 4

The Garden.—Hill and clean potatoes; sow peas and beans, cabbape, French beans; transplant capsicums, chillies, and egg-plant; guard against insects; clean the garden throughout…

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Cattle Market

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 11 October 1845 · page 3

MILCH COWS.—Thirteen milch cows—five of which had young calves—were sold at the cattle market this week, at prices varying from 35s to 70s. per head…

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Australian Wheat

The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature · Saturday 11 October 1845 · page 170

IT gives us pleasure to find that the colonists are alive to the injustice of Sir Robert Peel and his Corn Law supporters in refusing to admit the agricultural produce of these…

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Sheep Washing and Getting Up of Wool. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 October 1845 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,— washing and getting up of wool is a subject which every individual in this colony is deeply interested in, as the wealth and prosperity of this country do and…

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The Australian Wheat Question

The Examiner · Saturday 11 October 1845 · page 75

THE public meeting for the purpose of adopting a Petition to the Imperial Parliament, in reference to this highly important question, took place on Monday, at the City Theatre. We were extremely suprised at…

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The Immigration Resolutions. "Great cry and little wool"--bah!

The Cumberland Times and Western Advertiser · Saturday 11 October 1845 · page 2

WE cannot pretend to express any great degree of surprise at the success of Dr. Nicholson's motion, in the Legislative Council; for embarrassing the colony with an annual responsibility, to the amount of £180,000…

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