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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1854

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Good News for Small Farmers. a Sore Blow to the Crown Lands Monopolists

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 25 March 1854 · page 9

FEW Despatches were ever issued from Downing-street of greater importance to the industrious in habitants of Australia, than that addressed by the Duke of…

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The Condition of the Farmers Improved by Free Trade. (From the Times, December 14)

Empire · Saturday 25 March 1854 · page 3

Amid wars and rumours of wars, Asiatic cholera, London fog, Lancashire strikes, and all the other troubles that thicken aroaud us, it is consolatory to find one…

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Weekly Sales. Cattle

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 1 April 1854 · page 3

A few sales havec been effected, the exact particulars of which did not reach us in time for publication; they ranged high, being of excellent quality. SHEEP…

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The Sydney Morning Herald. Wednesday, April 5, 1854. the Pastoral Leases

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 April 1854 · page 4

SINCE the date of HER MAJESTY'S Order in Council declaring the terms and conditions upon which Crown lands in this colony might be leased for pastoral purposes, there has…

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Wool Washing. (From the Morcton Bay Free Press.)

Empire · Tuesday 25 April 1854 · page 2

It is clearly the interest of every flo[?] that he should send his wool to market ini [?] a state of' cleanness and good order as po[?] practicable. Character is soon lost, but not…

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Weekly Sales. Cattle

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 29 April 1854 · page 3

Towns, 100 head at 4[?] 10s, 700 lbs, Neal. M'Kay, 147 head at 5l 5s., 700 lbs, Neal and Piesley. HORSES. MR. CHAS. MARTIN. Horse Bazaar, Pitt-street, reports…

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Thoroughly Dried Popatoes Will Always Produce a Crop Free From Disease

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 29 April 1854 · page 6

Such is the positive assertion of a professor in the Russian Agricultural Institution. In a very interesting pamphlet by this gentleman, it is asserted as an unquestionable fact, that mere…

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Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 May 1854 · page 5

THE first series of public sales of colonial wool for 1854, being the fourth and last of the clip af 1853, commenced [?] the 9th February, and concluded on Saturday, the 4th instant. The quantities brought forward comprise—…

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Weekly Sales. Sheep

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 20 May 1854 · page 3

Bradley, 972 head At 10s, 40lbs. Pleasley and Co. HORSES. MR CHAS. MARTYN. Horse Bazaar, Pitt-street, reports the horse market has been again very well attended this…

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Colonial Wool

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 May 1854 · page 7

OUR first series of public sales for the year, and last of the old clip, consisting of 55,101 bales in all, commenced 9th ultimo, and terminated this day. They opened at full average rates of October and November last…

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London Wool Sales

Empire · Wednesday 24 May 1854 · page 3

Sale of 1412 Bales, by CHARLES JACOMB AND SON, 14th February, 1864:— Ex PE[?]AM, from Sydney: MM conjoined with B over and F under, 14 at 10m=1/2d, 7 nt 20d.; ditto, with L…

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Australia, Its Sheep-farming and Wool-growing. (From the Leeds Times, February 11.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 May 1854 · page 2

LAST Wednesday the members of the Leeds Mechanics' Institution were favoured with an interesting lecture on the above subject, in the large hall of the Institution, by Stuart A. Donaldson, Esq., ex-member of the…

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Where Is England to Obtain Her Cotton Wool[?]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 May 1854 · page 5

THE English cotton lords have, within the last few years, experienced, at times, considerable uneasiness from an apprehended diminution in the supply of cotton wool, more especially of the finer qualities. This…

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Results of the Session—assessment on Stock; Lien on Wool. (From the Melbourne Morning Herald.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 May 1854 · page 5

THE Act authorising an assessment on stock pastured beyond the settled districts is retrospective in its character; although only enacted in April it dates its operations from January in this year. The reason for…

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Results of the Session— Assessment on Stock; Lien on Wool

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 3 June 1854 · page 10

The Act authorising an assessment on stock pastured beyond the seeded districts is retrospective in its character; although only enacted in April it dates its operations…

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Cattle Sales

Illustrated Sydney News · Saturday 10 June 1854 · page 11

There have been few during the week, and these scarcely worth quoting. The Sheep Sales are Cheek 1100, averaging 45 lbs., 6s. Sullivan; Fletcher, 2000 store wethers, 5s., Pitt Elliott; 1100, 4S lbs., 6s. 9d., Sullivan. 2600 ewes, the property of Mr. Dangar,…

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Weekly Sales. Cattle

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 24 June 1854 · page 3

Hale, 109 head [?] 625 lbs. Sullivan and Hassell. Brown, 140 haad at 10/. 800 lbs. Piesley. Rouse, 114 head at 6/. 600 lbs. Sullivan and Hassell, Dind, 87 head at 6/ 15s., 750 lbs. Sullizan and Davis…

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Liverpool Wool Market, March 25

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 June 1854 · page 7

SCOTCH.—There is very little doing in any class of Scotch wool, except for the immediate wants of the trade, and, as they are generally lightly stocked, they keep taking a little at about old rates; if any change it is in favour of the buyer…

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British Wool Trade. Monday, March 27

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 June 1854 · page 7

SINCE this day se'nnight there has been much disinclination shown to invest in any kind of wool. The only quality in modorate request is fine down, which is certainly quite as dear as previously advised. We have no actual change to report in the…

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Weekly Sales. Cattle

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 8 July 1854 · page 3

Rouse, 100 head 81,700 lbs. Sullivan and Hasselt. Coberoft. 150 head at 61,600 lbs. Sullivan and Davis. Dight, 120 heyd at 5l 10s, 550 lbs, Sullivan and Hassell. SHEEP…

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