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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1853

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Wool Circular. Liverpool, 10th September, 1852

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 1 January 1853 · page 6
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

THE undermentioned 5250 bales wool have been offered at auction here yesterday and to-day. Buyers mustered numerously and bid very freely for current descriptions…

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WOOL. (From the Liverpool Mail, October 2.)

Empire · Thursday 6 January 1853 · page 3

Since the public sales of the 9th and 10th instant, our market has continued firm and steady: a good business done in clean, useful, low, and middling kinds. There have been no transactions…

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Ireland the Weather and the Crops. Connaught

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 13 January 1853 · page 2

TAUM We seldom recollect the reaping and harvesting of the green crops taking place at so early a period of the season as at present. In almost every field in this locality the sickle is already at…

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The Union Farm at Sheffield. (From the Spectator.)

Empire · Saturday 22 January 1853 · page 8

The Sheffield Guardian continue their experiment in re-productive employaient, in,spite of serious obstruction, with much pertinacity, and very cheering results,…

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The Wool Market. (From the British Banner, October 13.)

Empire · Thursday 27 January 1853 · page 3

THE WOOL TRADE, LONDON, THURSDAY.—The imports of wool into London during the week to Thurday last were 9,524 bales, of which 2039 were from Van Dieman's Land, 1,756 from Algoa…

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The Wool Mareet

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 29 January 1853 · page 5

THE WOOL TRADE, LONDON, THURSDAY. -- The imports of wool into London during the week to Thursday last were 9,524 bales of which 2039 were from Van Dieman's Land, 1.756 from Alcoa Bay and the cape. 2,314 from Port Phillip. 2,145 from…

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A Pastoral. (Two gentlemen having adopted pastoral pursuits, resolve to perpetrate pastoral poetry.) Dohbins Loquitur

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 5 February 1853 · page 3

Our labours o'er, say Collins shall we sing Our lives, our loves, our flocks, our—every thing; Do thou declare the tyrant of thy breast,…

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The Farmer of Tiptree Hall. (From Household Words.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 February 1853 · page 3

ON a fine morning in July, two hundred travellers might have been seen leisurely wandering along the road leading from the Kelvedon Railway Station to the good hostelry,…

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Wool

Empire · Friday 11 February 1853 · page 3

In our issue of the 27th ultimo, we published a list of the exports of wool from the ports of Sydney, Newcastle, and Brisbane, which had been made up from October, 1851, to October, 1852,…

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English News. Wool Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 February 1853 · page 2

LEEDS, NOVEMBER 13.—Business has been quiet in the Coloured Cloth Hall to-day; but in winter goods, such as Witneys and beavers, there has been a fair inquiry in the White…

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The Pastoral Letter of John Bede. Apostolic Ser, Archbishop of Sydney, Metropolitan of Australia, to the Faithful of the Archdiocese—clergy and Laity—in Promulgation of the Dispensations Granted

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 17 February 1853 · page 2

"And we helping, do exhort you that you receive not the Grace of God in vain. For He saith: in an accepted time have I heard thee, and in the day of Salvation have I helped thee. Behold cow is the…

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Ireland. the Weather—the Crops

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 17 February 1853 · page 4

SLIGO. — The cereal crops here are almost completely gathered in, and very old farmers are of opinion they never had been better. The potato crop, in suitable or old broken ground, is good, but in…

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Wool Sales

Empire · Tuesday 22 February 1853 · page 3

Sale of 514 bales of Australian wool by J. T. SIXES and Co., on the 6th November, 1852. Ex SENATOE, from Sydney: IMcA, 5 bales at 25d, 2 at 24d, 2 hoggett at 25d, 2 part merino at…

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Weekly Sales. Cattle

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 5 March 1853 · page 3

Rouse, 100 head at £3, 800 lbs., Neale and Richards. Eaton, 80 head at £2 10s., 750 lbs., Neale and Richards…

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Miscellaneous Extracts. Curious Experiment in Wool-growing

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 March 1853 · page 2

"In a lecture recently delivered by Mr. Owen at the Society of Arts, the learned professor detailed the particulars of a highly interesting experiment, which resulted in the…

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Maitland Circuit Court. (From our own Correspondent.) Thursday, March 10. Killing Sheep

Empire · Tuesday 15 March 1853 · page 3

Josiah Saunders, Francis Millar, Frederick Moreton, William Cornish,and Edward M'Donald, were all indicted for having killed 1400 sheep, the property of William Jamieson and another,…

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Small Farms

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 2 April 1853 · page 9

A correspondent calls the attention of farmers to some rich agricultural land to be disposed of in the neighbourhood of Mudgee. In those " piping times of golden harvests…

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The Recent Importations of Butter. To the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Tuesday 19 April 1853 · page 3

SIR—Without taking upon ourselves to criticise roar commercial reports, to correct whick would often demand more time than we have at our disposal, we would beg to point out that the…

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Management of Sheep. (From a Correspondent.) Weaning of Lambs

Empire · Thursday 28 April 1853 · page 3

A period of four months usually is allowed for lambs to suckle, but the duration will depend on the condition of the ewes or lambs, the state of pasturage, supply of hands, and many other…

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