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Farming & the land, 1845

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The Pastoral Letter of John Bede, Archbishop of Sydney, and Vicar Apostolic of New Holland, to the Clergy and Laity of the Archdiocese and Vicariate, in Promulgation of the Dispensations for the Lent of the Year 1845. "Prayer is good with fasting and alms-deeds."—BOOK of Tobias, Chap. 12

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 8 February 1845 · page 2

The recurrence of the lady season of Lent requires us, your chief Pastor, to invite you to comply with the duties it imposes, and to enter upon their accomplishment. It is a time of penance…

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Wool

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 February 1845 · page 2

THE late sales of colonial wool, held from the 24th September to 9th October, consisted of— 9,646 Bags from Sydney. 3,807 ditto Van Dienicn's Land…

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The Lenten Pastoral

The Sentinel · Wednesday 12 February 1845 · page 2

FASTING is most unquestionably an ordinance of God, appointed for the humiliation of the body, the tempering of the lusts, and the forcing stiff-necked sinners to tow themselves before the…

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Wool Markets. (From the Mark Lane Express, October 28.) BRITISH

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 13 February 1845 · page 4

LEEDS, OCT. 25.—There has been rather more inquiry for wool this week, but the sales have not been large. Prices are nominally without alternation, but where sales have been…

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New Zealand Extracts. the Crops. (Auckland Chronicle, January 16.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 13 February 1845 · page 4

IT must be highly gratifying to those who first arrived on the shore of the Waitemata, for the purpose of forming the settlement, and who found the land in a state…

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Cattle Market

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 15 February 1845 · page 3

27 Milch Cows sold at from 25s to 80s pea head, the average being 60s. Fat pigs—12 fat pigs sold at 2½. to 2½d per lb upon the nett weights…

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The Wool Market

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 15 February 1845 · page 46
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

The General Hewett bringing the conclusion of the October sales, and the state of the market up to the end of the month, has caused a declension in price on all low descriptions to the…

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Wool Circulars. London, 10th October, 1844

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 15 February 1845 · page 46

There was a fair attendance of buyers at the sales just brought to a conclusion, and the general result is—that the finer classes of colonial have decidedly maintained their price, but…

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Gardeners' and Farmers' Calendar February

The Australian · Tuesday 18 February 1845 · page 3

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

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Hints to Farmers FLAX.—No. IX

The Australian · Thursday 20 February 1845 · page 4

Desine quapropter novitate exterritus ipsa Exspuere ex animo rationem: sed magis acri Judicio perponde, et, si tibi vera videtur, Dedo manus: aut si falsa est, accingere contra…

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Cattle Market

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 22 February 1845 · page 3

Milch Cows—Twenty three cows, with twelve calves, were sold; some of the choice brought £3 15s, and others sold at £1 10s, the average being about £3…

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The Wool Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 February 1845 · page 4
Also in The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List

The market for wool has been very steady during the week, and the prices if any thing were rather higher than on the first arrival of the General Hewett. At auction the prices…

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Gardeners' and Farmers' Calendar February

The Australian · Saturday 22 February 1845 · page 3

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

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Colonial Wool Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 February 1845 · page 2

THAT most useful newspaper, the Mark Lane Express, has recently published a series of articles on the history of the colonial wool trade, one of which we…

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English Extracts the Colonial Wool Trade of the United Kingdom of Great Britain. (From the Mark Lane Express, October 7th, 14th, and 21st.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 February 1845 · page 4

IT is scarcely much over a quarter of a century when the annoucement of a public sale of wools imported from a British colony was the subject of derision on the…

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Gardeners and Farmers Calendar February

The Australian · Tuesday 25 February 1845 · page 2

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

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Hints to Farmers. FLAX.—No. X.

The Australian · Tuesday 25 February 1845 · page 4

I have followed Mon. D'Hont D'Arcy, as far as his propositions are tenable, and his method superior to the former common usage. I have given outline of what is useful practice; but…

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English Extracts the Colonial Wool Trade of the United Kingdom of Great Britain. (Continued from the Mark Lane Express, Oct. 14.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 February 1845 · page 4

Previously to our resuming as correct a review as possible of the "Rise and Progress of the Colonial Wool Trade," and the more important consideration—the…

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