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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1847

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Settlers' Price Current. Wholesale Prices of Our Colonial Farm and Dairy Produce. (For the Week ending Friday, January 1.)

The Citizen · Saturday 2 January 1847 · page 3

WHEAT--The market being full, and dull of sale, there is no alteration in price--4s to 4s 3d. FLOUR--The sale of this article is likewise dull for the past few weeks, and no sign of an…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Wednesday, January 6, 1847. "Sworn to no master, of no sect am I.' Agricultural and Pastoral Labour

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 January 1847 · page 2

WE have bestowed no small pains upon the formation, from official data, of an estimate of the comparative amounts of agricultural and pastoral labour throughout…

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English Wool Market

The Australian · Thursday 7 January 1847 · page 3

Tub following article is extracted from a late number of the HOBART TOWN ADVERTISER:— "The late decline in the price of wool…

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Cattle Market

Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 9 January 1847 · page 3

20 Milch Cows were sold at this market, at 3l ,10s. to 4l. per head. 10 Calves, at 10s. to 20s. each…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Monday, January 11, 1847. "Sworn to no master, of no sect am I." Limits to the Increase of Sheep and Cattle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 January 1847 · page 2

IT has long been the fashion with Committees of the Legislative Council, and many of their witnesses, in estimating the prospective demands of the colony for…

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Seetlers Price Current. Wholesale Prices of Colonial Farm and Dairy Produce in the Sydney Markets

The Sentinel · Thursday 14 January 1847 · page 3

WHEAT, good samples in demand; the prices given by purchasers are from 3s. to 3s. 6d. per bushel. FLOUR plentiful; fine, £10; seconds, £8. MAIZE keeps on the decline in price, and the…

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English Extracts. Farmers' Club—wool and Wheat Growing—fruit Trees, &c. (From the New York Tribune.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 January 1847 · page 2

MR. WAKEMAN, the Corresponding Secretary, called for the reading of a Circular from the Club, addressed to the Gardeners and Farmers of the Union, and calling their attention…

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American Wheat and Maize

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 January 1847 · page 3

THE following table, showing an estimate in bushels of wheat and Indian corn grown in the United States in 1845, has been prepared from official documents in the Patent Office,…

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Farmers' Club—wool and Wheat Growing—fruit Trees, &c

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 16 January 1847 · page 371

President Tallmadge presented specimen cards of wool from Saxon sheep, which he obtained with some of these sheep at the time of their importation in 1826. He also presented…

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The Wool Trade

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 16 January 1847 · page 371

The returns of our staple commodity (which may still be called the "sheet anchor" of New South Wales,) for the year just closed, present a remarkable, and, we believe, hitherto…

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September Wool Sales

The Australian · Saturday 16 January 1847 · page 3

Extract from the London Wool Sales, commenced 9th September, 1846. Ex Thomas Hughes, from Port Phillip.—McL, 44 bales, average 1s. 2d. to 1s. 3d.: lambs. 1s. 5d…

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The Wool Trade. (From a Correspondent.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 January 1847 · page 2

THE returns of our staple commodity (which may still be called the "sheet anchor" of New South Wales,) for the year just closed, present a remarkable, and, we believe, hitherto…

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English Wool Market

The Australian · Tuesday 19 January 1847 · page 3

THE following paragraph is an extract from a private letter received in Adelaide, from London, dated August 19:— "The alteration in our Tariff has been…

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The Wool Trade. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1847 · page 2

GENTLEMEN,—Your correspondent, who writes under the above title in Saturday's paper, appears to me to have overlooked one main reason of the otherwise unaccountable…

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Cattle Market

Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 23 January 1847 · page 3

Cows—Fourteen cows were sold at this market, at from 21. 10s. to 5l. per head. CALVES—Twelve calves at from 12s. to 15s. each. HORSES—Six horses from 5l. 10s. to 10l. each…

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The Wool Trade. To the Editors of the Shipping Gazette

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 23 January 1847 · page 379

Gentlemen,—Your correspondent who furnished your article of Saturday on the wool trade desires to be enlightened as to the (alleged) falling off in the export of wool from Sydney…

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September Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 January 1847 · page 4

DEAR SIR,—We have much pleasure in forwarding to you the accompanying price current of our third series of wool sales of the present season, which have certainly gone off more…

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September Wool Circular. London, 28th September, 1846

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 January 1847 · page 2

WE have again to report the termination ot another, the third series of sales of Colonial Wool, of this season's clip, which have proceeded since the 9th instant…

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Public Sales of Wool. London, September 28, 1846

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 January 1847 · page 4

THE third series of these sales commenced on the 9th instant, and concluded this evening. They drew a large attendance of buyers, and the colonial wools are considered to have gone…

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September Wool Sales

Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 30 January 1847 · page 2

We have been favoured with a duplicate of a letter from Buckles & Co., the original of which was transmitted by the Windermere. addressed to a gentleman in town—…

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