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Farming & the land, 1857

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Pastoral Letter

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 April 1857 · page 5

THE following letter by Archbishop Polding, on the assassination of the Archbishop of Paris, has just been published. It is addressed to the faithful of the archdiocese, clergy, and laity, and directed to be read on…

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South Australia. Adelaide Cattle Market. Saturday, March 21

Empire · Saturday 4 April 1857 · page 5

Mr. Charles Jenkins sold at the following prices:— Six bullocks. with dray, &c., £78; four ditzo, with ditto, &c., £45.; four, ditto, with ditto, £41; four ditto, with howes and yokes £40l four ditto, with ditto, £42; pairs of bullocks, from £10 to£21. Horses…

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False Wool Packing. To the Editor of the Umpire

Empire · Saturday 4 April 1857 · page 2

SIR—Messrs. Mort and Co., some weeks ago, in their weekly report drew attention to cortain casos of false Packing wool which had come, under their notice, and in their last report another case fo false packing no less…

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The Pastoral Letter of John Bede, by the Grace of God, and Favor of the Holy Apostolic See, Archbishop of Sydney, &c., on the Assassination of the Archbishop of Paris. to the Faithful of the Archdiocese, Clergy and Laity

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 4 April 1857 · page 2

Dearly Beloved,— "Gloriamur in spe gloria filiorum Dei ; non solum autem, sed et gloriamur in tribulationibus."—We glory in the hope of the glory of the sons of God and not only so, but we glory…

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The Empire. Monday, April 6, 1857. the Wool Frauds

Empire · Monday 6 April 1857 · page 4

IT is much to be regretted that we should hear from so respectable an authority as MORT AND GO., that there are men among our woolgrowers capable of descending to the meanest…

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False Wool Packing. To the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Monday 6 April 1857 · page 5

In your issue of this morning appears a letter from a Southern Wool-grower headed "False Wool Packing, written on account of some expressions used by us in the Weekly Produce Circular. We therefore feel called…

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"CLEAN v. Dirty Wool." To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 April 1857 · page 8

SIR,—In strolling round the Circular Quay the other day, I looked into one of the wool-dressing establishments; and it occurred to me that the loss to the wool-growers of this colony must be enormous, from…

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Weekly Sales. Cattle

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 11 April 1857 · page 3

Cribb, 104, 5l 10s, [?] Coberoft, 135, 5l 17a 6d, 700lbs. SHEEP. We have not head of any purchases of sheep this…

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Wool, Tallow, Hides, Horns, &c. &c

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 11 April 1857 · page 96

THE following quantities have been received coastwise from 9th March to 9th April:— The Hunter:—1122 bales wool, 105 casks tallow, 879 bides, 150 borne, and 92 bundles sheepskins…

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South Australia. Adelaide Cattle Market. Saturday, March 21

Empire · Tuesday 14 April 1857 · page 5

Mr. Charles Jenkins sold at the following prices:—Six bullocks; with dray, &c., £78; four ditto, with ditto, &c., £45 15s.; four, ditto, with ditto, £41; four ditto, witir bowes and yokes,£40; four ditto, with ditto, £42; pairs of bullocks, from £10 to £21…

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A Farmer Among the Chemists. (From the Mark Lane Express, December 29.) LETTER 1

Empire · Thursday 16 April 1857 · page 2

MY DEAR BERZELIUS—You remember how we used to crack retorts and half-ruin the laboratory for glass tube and orucibles; how we frightened the professors with explosive mixtures, or stifled them with chlorine and the…

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Pastoral of the Archbishop of Dublin. to the Clergy of the Diocese of Dublin

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 25 April 1857 · page 3

Rev. Brethren—When writing a short time ago about the Novena to be celebrated through out this diocese in preparation for the Festival of the Immaculate Concepti in of the Holy Mother…

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Weekly Sales. Cattle

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 2 May 1857 · page 3

Jervis, 130, at 41 3s Cox and Lewis. 150, at 61 Brown, 100, at 4112s 6d SHEEP…

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Wool, Tallow, Hides, Horns, &c

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 May 1857 · page 12

THE following quantities have been received coastwise from 9th April to 13th May:— THE HUNTER.—947 bales wool, 114 casks tallow, 1563 hides, 100 bundles 500 sheepskins, 4 bundles calfskins…

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The Simla's News. English and Foreign Intelligence. the British Government Defeated on the Chinese War Question, Cobden Being the Mover, by a Majority of Sixteen. Lord Palmerston Appeals to the Country, and a General Election Was to Take Place About the 26Th of March. Wool Sales Had Commenced.—on Australian Wool There Was an Advance of 2D. to 3D. Per Pound

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 May 1857 · page 5

THE steamship Simla, Captain Cooper, left Suez March 28th, at 6 p.m., and arrived at Aden April 4th, at 9.10 a.m.; from Aden April 5th, 6.10 a.m., arriving at Galle the 15th. at…

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Latest Wool Sales

Empire · Wednesday 20 May 1857 · page 5

Sale of 27 baler by HALL AND WENATER, on Thursday, 5th March, 1837. EX CENTURIAN, form Sudaey: TC. 10 at 20½d., 1 handwashed skin at 18d.; S & C. [?] in grease at 14½d., 10 d[?]to at 14d. 1…

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Cattle Breeding in France and England. the Siecle of 13th March contains the following interesting statistics relative to the progress of cattlebreeding in France and England:—

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 May 1857 · page 3

"In both countries an equal number of sheep is bred; this number is about 35,000,000 head. The 35,000,000 in the United Kingdom live on 31,000,000 hectares (21/2 acres), while the 35,000,000 in France live on 53,000,000…

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Facts for Farmers and Gardeners

Empire · Monday 1 June 1857 · page 5

From the May number of an excellent monthly journal, lately established in Melbourne, under the title of the "Victorian Agricultural and Horticultural Gazette," we extract the following paragraphs:—…

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Kaffrarian Wool

Empire · Thursday 11 June 1857 · page 3

The mails just received from the Cape of Good Hope mention a [?]t which we regard with great satisfaction. An English settler at King William's Town had received two bales of…

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German Wool Report

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 June 1857 · page 5

BERLIN, April 1.—Frankfort fair has taken place since our last report, and given general satisfaction to the cloth manufacturers, higher prices for cloth being obtained. The business in wool done in our market during the month of March was almost exclusively…

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