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Farming & the land, 1865

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Sheep, in Van Loads

Empire · Wednesday 15 February 1865 · page 6

Will be conveyed at Owner's risk, at 7d. per mile, per waggons…

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Sheep, in Van Loads

Empire · Thursday 16 February 1865 · page 6

Will be conveyed at Owner's risk, at 7d. per mile, per waggons…

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Sheep Directors. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 February 1865 · page 3

SIR,—I see in your issue of to-day a notice reminding sheep-owners that they are to meet on the 20th instant to elect directors for the coming year, and I trust, if they are short-sighted enough to propose any one for that office…

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The Wool Trade. (From the Times of India, January 4.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 February 1865 · page 3

WHAT can Western India do for the world in adjusting the wool question? is one of the new questions which has arisen. Wool is wanted: where can it be got? Which is the country destined to supply the n[?]w want of Europe,…

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Butter

Sydney Punch · Saturday 18 February 1865 · page 1

THE Empire some days back contained a letter from a gentleman who complains of his butter. He says that "a great deal too…

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Wool. Tallow. Hides. &c

Empire · Saturday 18 February 1865 · page 4

Colonial Empire, for London: 3459 bales 12 pockets wool. 246 logs timber, 53 bundies flax, 6 bundies whalebone, 8354 horns, 59 owt. old rope, 28 owt. old canvas, i case leather, 2 cases metal…

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London Limnings. the Cattle Show. (Written expressly for the Sydney Morniing Herald.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 February 1865 · page 2

1864, in a meteorological point of view, has been on Annus mirabilis in England. Week followed week of sunlight in unclouded lapse, parching what would otherwise have been bush pasture into the drynes[?],…

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Sheep, in Van Loads

Empire · Friday 24 February 1865 · page 6

Will be conveyed at Owner's risk, at 7d. per mile, per waggons…

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Fat Cattle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 February 1865 · page 6

B[?]RT AND:CO.—The market bare of first—class cattle; the lots offered at auction have met with unusual competition. At our sale on Wednesday, the best pens of bullocks went to £1 5s, and cows to £4 2s. Sheep are improving and likely to advance…

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London Limnings. the Cattle Show

Sydney Mail · Saturday 25 February 1865 · page 7

1864, in a meteorological point of view, has been an Annus mirabilis in England. Week followed week of sunlight in unclouded lapse, parching what would otherwise have been bush pasture into the dryness,…

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House and Cattle Beport. [Burt and Co.]

Empire · Saturday 25 February 1865 · page 4

HORSKS—A ready sale for made horses. Buggy pairs, good hacks, and light hotness horses find purchasers without difficulty. Unbroken stock depend upon quality, and unless very good sell at low figures. Since last report we have sold…

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Rust in Wheat. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 February 1865 · page 5

SIR,—The subject of rust in wheat being one of so much importance to the community at large, any facts connected therewith must be of great value, and therefore worthy of record. I send you the following particulars for insertion…

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The Late Intercolonial Show of Wool. To the Editor of the Argus

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 February 1865 · page 8

SIR,—In the commercial columns of a receat issue of your journal, there appeared a report of the sale of the wool exhibited at the late intercolonial show, wherein was stated that "Mr. Kermode's wool fetched a price that far exceeds…

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Scab in Sheep

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 February 1865 · page 5

The return of infected sheep in the colony, at 31st August and 30th November, 1864, ordered by the Legislative Assembly to be printed, 31st January, 1865, contains the following memo, giving in few…

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Sheep, in Van Loads

Empire · Wednesday 1 March 1865 · page 6

Will be conveyed at Owner's risk, at 7d, per mile, per waggons…

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The Pastoral Letter of John Bede

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 1 March 1865 · page 130

DEARLY BELOVED CHILDREN IN JESUS CHRIST:—Brethren, we helping do exhort you not to recive the Grace of God in vain.—2 Corinth, vi. 1…

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Archbishop Polding's Pastoral

Empire · Thursday 2 March 1865 · page 2

The following pastoral has been addressed by His Grace Archbishop polding, to the elergy and laity of the Archdiocese of Sydney:— DEARLY BELOVED CHILDREN IN JESU CHRIST:—…

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Sheep, in Van Loads

Empire · Thursday 2 March 1865 · page 6

Will be conveyed at Owner's risk, 15 ud. per mile, per waggons…

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Why Farming Does Not Pay. (From the Australasian, February 24.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 March 1865 · page 2

WITH the very low prices for corn ruling in England, and the only moderate price of meat, after the serious losses of root and other crops from the drought of last summer, the farmers, like those here, are rather…

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Scab in Sheep

Sydney Mail · Saturday 4 March 1865 · page 5

THE return of infected sheep in the colony, at 31st August and 30th November, 1864, ordered by the Legislative Assembly to be printed, 31st January, 1865, contains the following memo., giving in few…

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