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Farming & the land, 1855

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The Australian Wool Imports

Empire · Tuesday 2 January 1855 · page 4
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

UNDER this head, a late Liverpool paper gives a very interesting account of a meeting which, though professedly a dejcuner, really partook much more of a commercial…

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Small Farms. (From the Maitland Mercury, December 30.)

Empire · Tuesday 2 January 1855 · page 3

Among the many alterations which the gold discoveries have effected in the social state of the Hunter River District, there are nono perhaps that exceed in magnitude, or, as we believe, in…

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Weekly Sales. Sheep and Cattle

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 6 January 1855 · page 3

No purchases have been directed during the week. Both sheep and cattle are scarce. Beef and mutton as at last quotations. HORSES…

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Shepherds and Farm Servants in the Southern Interior

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 6 January 1855 · page 6

The following letter has been handed to us for publication by a friend in this city, as being in his opinion a faithful description of the condition, both moral and material, of the parties referred to in the heading. If matters be as represented…

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The Sheep

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 January 1855 · page 3

"Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air, and brought them unto Adam, to see what he would call them; and whatever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof:…

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Weekly Sales. Cattle

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 20 January 1855 · page 3

Onu[?]. 200 head at 8[?] 10[?]. Neale and Sullivan. Coberoft, 180 head at 7[?] 10s, Sullivan. Lee, 100 head at 9[?], Richards. SHEEP…

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Council Paper. Reserves Out of Pastoral Runs. (Beyond the Settled Disteicts)

Empire · Thursday 25 January 1855 · page 6

Copy of a despatch from Governor Sir Charles A, Fitz Roy to the Right Honorable the Secretary of State for the Colonies,…

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Weekly Sales. Sheep and Cattle

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 27 January 1855 · page 3

Beef 6d, mutton 8d per lb. No sales of sheep or cattle have been effected during the week. HORSES. [?] BURT, HASSALL, & Co., Horse Bazaar,…

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WOOL CIRCULAR.—January 20th, 1855

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Monday 29 January 1855 · page 31

SINCE our report of last week, the expected advices per Madras have been received, bringing reports of the October and November London wool sales, and showing an advance of about 5 per cent. notwithstanding the very unsettled state of the English corn…

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The Supplies of Wheat, Home and Foreign. (From the Economist, November 4.)

Empire · Wednesday 7 February 1855 · page 6

The present condition of the corn-market is, perhaps, one of the strongest examples of the truth which has often been remarked in commerce, that a derangement in the ordinnry channels of supply…

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Russian Prisoners. (Continued.) Chapter Xiii. Alexandria.—Farm on the road.—Environs of towna and villages. —Our stock of wine.—Water-tanks on tho tops of the houses. —The river Dnieper.—Civility of the ohtef of the Post-houses. —Krementchoug.—The country north of the Dnieper.— Young plantations.—A Russian Courier proceeding to Odessa. —The Telega

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 February 1855 · page 3

LEAVING Elisavetgrad about six o'clock, we passed through Adjamka, a village on the road, and reached Alexandria about two o'clock after midnight, glad to put up at the post-house, and bo relieved from the…

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Melbourne Wool Market. February 17

Empire · Saturday 24 February 1855 · page 8

The wool market since our last report has remained in a comparatively insetive state from want of supplies, the quantity of wool now coming down from the interior being much roduced at the public wool sales, held on…

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Nomination for the United Pastoral Districts of the Lachlan and Lower Darling. at Binnalong, on Wednesday, February 15

Empire · Wednesday 28 February 1855 · page 3

The following report of the proceedings at the nomination of Candidates for these districts has been furnished to us by a correspondent. EPGAR BECKHAN, Dsq., the Returning Officer,…

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The Breeding of Merino Sheep. Imperial Establishment at Rambouillet

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 March 1855 · page 5

PROBABLY some of our readers may derive a few useful hints from the following items of information in regard to the above very celebrated establishment in France, which are derived from an account of a visit…

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Theories As to the Price of Wheat. (From the Economist, November 11.)

Empire · Monday 12 March 1855 · page 3

The present high price of grain may fairly be termed a phenomenon; which, though to some extent explained by the circumstances to which we adverted a week ago, and especially by the fact of…

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Markets for Cattle. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 17 March 1855 · page 7

SIR,—I think that Mr. Oake's plan is the only proper and honest way of serving the public in the matter of the supply of animal food for its consumption, with this one ex[?]eption, that instead of only having one market there should be two at least. Indeed if…

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The Management of Sheep in Health and Disease. (By a Correspondent of the Mark-lane Express.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 March 1855 · page 5

IN taking a retrospect of the different Beaaons, winter is that in which all nature desires to repose. The subjects which now court attention are of the most interesting (as well as important) character to the…

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The Wool Trade for 1854

Empire · Saturday 24 March 1855 · page 2

MESSRS. Joseph Robinson and Co., of Liverpool, in their annual circnlar, observes- Throughout the year the majority of consumers have had to complain of the dull feeling in the…

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Commercial. Hughes and Ronald's Annual Wool Circular

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 March 1855 · page 5

THE past year has been a very eventful one, and the state of the wool tra le, as well as business in general, has presented some anomalies. Estimated merely by the extent of exports and the comparatively active employment of our…

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