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Farming & the land, 1855

113 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 6

The Australian Wool Trade. [From a Correspondent.]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 August 1855 · page 4

AN extract from the European Times, hearing the above title, mentions that Liverpool will shortly absorb the import trade of Australian wool. Perhaps the author of the article has had more in…

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London Wool Sales

Empire · Monday 6 August 1855 · page 5

Sale of 359 bales of Sydney wool, by J. T, SIMES, and Co., May 3rd, 1855. Ex PLANTAGENET, from Sydney: (To the order of the Court of Directors of the Australian Agricultural…

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London Wool Sales

Empire · Wednesday 15 August 1855 · page 5

Sale of 1456 bales Australian Wool, by CHARLES JACOMB AND SON, May 11:— EX OLIVER LANG, from Sydney: LL "Namoi" under, 8 at 22d., 8 at 22½d., 7 at 21½d, 8 at 21d., 14 at 29½d., 13 at 20d., 4 pieces…

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London Wool Sales

Empire · Thursday 16 August 1855 · page 5

Sale of 236 bales of Sydney wool, by THOMAS SOUTHEY AND SON May 4, 1855. Ex EMMA, from Sydney: D in diamond, 4 bales at 19½d., 6 at 19d…

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London Wool Sales

Empire · Friday 17 August 1855 · page 4

Sale of 755 bales Australian Wool, by CHARLES JACOMB AND SON, May 5, 1855. EX [?], from Sydney: M over WCW, 14 bales at 18d., 6 damaged at 161d., M, 3at 19d., 8at 17½d., 13 at 16.. 9 grease at…

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High Prices. (From the New England Farmer.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 August 1855 · page 6

WITHIN the memory of every grown-up man, eighty dollars was considered a high price for a horse that now sells at two hundred, and sixty dollars would buy a likely yoke of six and a-half foot oxen, which…

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State of the Crops in the United States and Canada

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 August 1855 · page 8

PENNSYLVANIA.—The Mercer Press, of the 27th ult., says:—The wheat in this country looks very fine, and from present appearances we will have an abundant harvest…

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Legislative Council. Thursday. the Speaker took the chair at twenty-five minutes past three o'clock. the Pastoral Association at Twofold Bay

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 August 1855 · page 2

Mr. EGAN said that seeing the Chief Commissioner of Crown Lands in his place, he bugged to ask him a series of questions, of which he had given notice, lst[?] the number of runs held by the…

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London Wool, Sales

Empire · Friday 31 August 1855 · page 5

Sale of 952 baies of Sydney wool, by THOMAS SOCTHEY AND SON, May 21,1855. EX SPCENY,from Sydney: MP, l bale at 12d. EX BLACKPRIAR, Sec.,from Sydney: Pleslie, 7 bules [?] at…

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Weekly Sales. Cattle

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 8 September 1855 · page 3

Rouse, sold by Fullager, 113, 760 lbs, [?] is 6d—Davis. Lance, 180 bullocks and cows. Bullocks [?] [?]s, cows 5[?]— Plesley…

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What Becomes of Toed Amaged Wheat? That's the Question. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 September 1855 · page 5

SIR,—Tour columns have received letters of late from a miller, a gentleman in Bourke-street, Surry Hills, and a baker's clerk, on the subject of dear bread, damaged wheat, and the moderate and immoderate…

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Adelaide Cattle Market. Wednesday, September 5

Empire · Monday 17 September 1855 · page 5

There were in the market 2000 sheep of good quality, of which 800 were sold at 20s. to 25s each. Also, 240 lambs, 120 of which sold at 10s. each. Beef, at the slaughterhouse, 38s. to 41s. per 100 lbs…

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Goulburn Circuit Court. Saturday, September 15, Cattle Stealing

Empire · Wednesday 19 September 1855 · page 5

James Feeney, a stont, well-dressed, middle-aged man, was indicated for having, on the 1st of November, 1852, at Yarra Yarra, in the district of Billabong, foloniously stolen 100 bulls, 100 cows, 100 oxen, 100 heifers, and 100…

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Book-keeping for Farmers. (From the Mark Lane Express, 4th June)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 September 1855 · page 8

THERE are some problems which, even in this age of enlightenment, appear as little likely as ever to be preperly solved. We yet puzzle ourselves over the authorship of Junius' Letters; still seek in vain for…

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The Wool Trade

Empire · Saturday 29 September 1855 · page 4

Liverpool,—The state of the market during the past fortnight is thus described by Messrs. Hughes and Ronald:—Since the Public sales on the 12th to the 14th ultimo the wool market has been rather quieter, nearly everything of current quality having…

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Proceedings of the Horticultural Improvement Society of New South Wales. No. 6. Native Plants, and the Pastoral, Agricultural, and Horticultural Resources of Australia, No. 1.—By Mr. T. W. Shepherd

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 October 1855 · page 2

THE subject which I propose to bring under your notice this evening is fraught with much interest, and although hitherto almost entirely neglected by the colonists, at least as a body, yet is of the utmost…

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Bread, Wheat, and Land. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 October 1855 · page 5

SIR,—Allow me to ask, through the medium of your columns. what has become of your cheap and pure bread correspondents [?] what benefit tho community has reaped from their patriotic suggestions! Is it that the evil admits of no remedy, or is it to be…

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Australian Sketches. a Sheep-shearing Scene

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 October 1855 · page 5

MANY years ago, three squatters, with their flocks and herds, and accompanying drays, made an irruption into a wild, secluded, and rather mountainous country, whore a white man had never previously…

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Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 October 1855 · page 5

SALE or [?]44 bales by S. E. Edenborough and Co., on 5th July. Ex Ellenborough: C in circle. 7 at 20d; P Leslie, 17 at 2l½d, 8 at 21d; DGL, 8 at 21½1, 4 at 21d; AL. 3 at 1[?]½d, 1 at 16½d; TB and Jimbour, 27 at 21½d, l8 at 21d, 5 at 20½d, 2 at 20d; OHO,…

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London Wool Sales

Empire · Tuesday 16 October 1855 · page 4

Sale of 197 bales of Australian wool, by HENRY P. [?] July 6, 1855:- Ex ELLENBOROUGH, from Sydney: R&HW over "Burnett" 4 bales at 19 ½d., 5 at 19d., 2 pieces at 16d.; "St. Clair," 2 bales super…

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