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Farming & the land, 1848

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The Wool Sales

The Australian Sportsman · Saturday 16 September 1848 · page 4

The following particulars have been furnished us by the leading members of the wool trade:--The first Colonial Wool Sales of the present season's clip, which commenced on the 4th, and…

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On the Management of Wool at Shearing Time. (To the Editor of the Mark Lane Express.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 September 1848 · page 3
Also in The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List

SIR,—Will you allow me through the medium of your widely circulated paper, to offer a few suggestions to the growers of wool? Probably my motive for so doing will be…

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Markets Melbourne Cattle Market. Sales effected this week by Messrs. Bear and son

The Australian · Thursday 21 September 1848 · page 3

FAT CATTLE.—Fifty head of fat heifers and bullocks sold at auction as follows:—The beet quality at from £3 10s to £5 per head, and interior, from 50s to 70s each, the lot averaging…

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Settler's Price Current' Cattle

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 23 September 1848 · page 3

Bennett, 116 head, 700lbs. each, £2 10s. Blakeny. M'Cray, 84 head, 700lbs, each £2 10s. Hill and Argent…

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Wool Markets. (From the Mark Lane Express, June 26.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 October 1848 · page 3

LEEDS, June 23.—Sales continue very flat in this branch of trade; prices are in a great measure nominal, and have a decided tendency downwards…

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Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 October 1848 · page 2

SALE of [?] bales Australian wool, by C. and J. D. [?] on the 23rd June:- Ex [?]—JD, 5 bales at 16½d., 10 at 17d., 4 at 15d., 1 at [?] 4 at 14d., 10 at 16d.,…

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The Wool Trade

The Daily News and Evening Chronicle · Wednesday 25 October 1848 · page 2

The following remarks on the state of the Liverpool Wool Trade, are taken from Messrs. Hughes and Ronald's monthly circular of the 1st instant. -- So far as concerns private contract business, there…

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The Wool Trade

The Daily News and Evening Chronicle · Thursday 26 October 1848 · page 2

The following remarks on the state of the Liverpool Wool, Trade, are taken from Messrs. Hughes and Ronald's monthly circular of the 1st instant. -- So far as concerns private contract business, there…

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The Wool Trade. (From the Times, July 3.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 October 1848 · page 3

THE following remarks on the state of the Liverpool wool trade, are taken from Messrs. Hughes and Ronald's monthly circular of the 1st instant.—So far as concerns private…

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The Wool Trade

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 28 October 1848 · page 264

The following remarks on the state of the Liverpool wool trade, are taken from Messrs. Hughes and Ronald's monthly circular of the 1st instant.—So far as concerns private…

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The Quarter's Export of Wool and Tallow From the Hunter

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 28 October 1848 · page 262

THE following is a return of the number of bales of wool exported from the Hunter River district during the quarter from the 1st July to the 30th September, being the last quarter of…

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Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 November 1848 · page 2

SALE by J. T, SIMES and Co., on the 22nd June of 784 bales Australian wool:- Ex Agincourt.—AS, 10 bales at 12[?]d., 5 at l1d., 2 at 10d., 1 at 7d.; LS, 6 at 12[?]d; HD,…

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Wool Circular

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 November 1848 · page 2

THE second series at public sales of the new clip of colonial wool, commenced on the 22nd ultimo, and closed this evening. The quantities comprised in the catalogues…

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The Weather and the Crops

The Australian Sportsman · Saturday 11 November 1848 · page 3

JERRY'S PLAINS, OCT. 31--The wheat looks well generally, but in some cases the rust, a disease which is supposed to be the consequence of excessive moisture, in combination with unknown…

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Miscellaneous Ext[?]acts. the July Wool Sales. To the Editor of the Port Phillip Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 November 1848 · page 3

DEAR SIR,—Having given you a detailed account of the first of the series of Colonial Wool Sales, in my letter of 31st May, embracing, as it did, some of the causes that led to the losses…

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Wool Markets. (From the Mark Lane Express.) British Wool

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 December 1848 · page 3

LEEDS, AUGUST 11.—There has been a steady demand for combing and clothing wools this week. Prices are firm and stationary. Hull, August 8.—Only a small show of…

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The Wool Trade. (From Bell's Messenger, August 14)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 December 1848 · page 3

LAST week's imports of wool into London consisted of 2800 bales from Sydney, 200 from Hamburg, and 200 from various other quarters. In the private contract market no sales worthy…

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Wool Markets. (From the Mark Lane Express, August 28.) British Wool

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 December 1848 · page 2

[?], AUGUST 25.—We have no change to report in this branch of business since last week, for although the Bradford stuff manufacturers are exceedingly busy in executing…

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The Wool Trade. Liverpool, September 1

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 16 December 1848 · page 3

With the exception of the business done at the public sales on the 10th and 11th ult., the demand during the past month was by no means active, which is chiefly to be ascribed to the unfavourable state of the weather, about which much anxiety has been felt;…

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