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Farming & the land, 1865

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Horse and Cattle Reports. [Burt and Co.]

Empire · Saturday 15 April 1865 · page 3

HORERS.—Market active for all broken alock. Useful horses to ride and drive are much wanted. Cart atock are doing beter; sound young horses, with good trlais, sall readily for shipment to New Zealand and Queenaland…

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Wool Report. February 25th

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 April 1865 · page 5

Fair inquiries made since last report for colonial wool. Medium Sydney brought low price; Cape sold at an advance on November rates of 1d. to 1[?]d. The announcement that…

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The Farm Homesteads of England

Empire · Thursday 20 April 1865 · page 6

There are few things more striking and suggestive in modern English life than the rise and spread of what it is fashion to call "movements," and the species of…

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Wool, Tallow and Hides

Empire · Friday 21 April 1865 · page 3

Vimeirs for London: 2559 bales wool, 175, casks tallow. 1569 logots 112 plates copper; 11 boxes tobacco; 5914 bage copper ore, 3900 treenails, 21 hogsheads pearl, shell, 6 packages…

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Exports of Wool, Tallow, Hides, &c. From January 1, 1865

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 April 1865 · page 9

Per Young England: 2507 bales wool, 9000 horns, 7700 hides, 133 casks tallow, 307 packages gum. Per Royal Edward: 4203 bales wool, 662 casks tallow, 3635 packages copper ore, 2893 hides, 1493 packages gum, 30,000…

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Wool Report. February 25th

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 22 April 1865 · page 253

Fair inquiries made since last report for colonial wool. Medium Sydney brought low price; Cape sold at an advance on November rates of 1d. to 1½d. The announcement that…

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Horse and Cattle Reports. [Burt and Co.]

Empire · Saturday 22 April 1865 · page 2

FAT CATTLE.—Market Jully stocked, Really prime out looks worth from £310 to £1. We sold at the Victoral Yards on Wednesday, 22 head, consisting of 50 builooks, ED brand conjoined. £3 7 to £3 2s 6d; 1170 head one third…

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Sheep, in Yan Loads

Empire · Tuesday 25 April 1865 · page 6

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

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Trade Circulars. Wool. [Williams, Overbury, and Co. February 24Th.]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 April 1865 · page 8

THE first series of sales for the current year is fixed to commence on the 2nd of March. The actual arrivals are subjoined: but several ships from Australia are now due, whose cargoes, if they reach this country in…

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Sheep, in Van Loads

Empire · Thursday 27 April 1865 · page 6

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

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Horse and Cattle Reports. [Burt and Co.]

Empire · Saturday 29 April 1865 · page 2

HORSKS.—We have to repork a full market, Demands are very limited, and, inquiries confined to-thoroughly broken harnece horses and stylieh hacks, of which there are hardly any offering, We have disposed of several country lots this…

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Sheep, in Van Loads

Empire · Monday 1 May 1865 · page 6

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

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Wool Rates. Including Cartage in Sydney

Empire · Monday 1 May 1865 · page 6

From Carriers bringing loading of not less than 30 cwt. to Picton or Penrith, for transmission by Railway to Sydney, will be allowed Excursion Tickets (not…

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Wool-growing. to the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Monday 8 May 1865 · page 3

Sir.—The following extract from a letter per last mail steamer, to a wool-grower in this colony, and from one who, after many years experience, has made his pile and retired, will be interesting to many of your readers…

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Sheep, in Van Loads

Empire · Monday 15 May 1865 · page 6

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

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London Wool Report

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 May 1865 · page 5

The Times of March 27th says:—The first series of colonial wool sales of 1865 commenced on the 2nd instant. They comprised 84,352 bales, of which 23,654 bales were Cape wools, the balance Australian…

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Poultry —Their Selection and Management. (By a Practical Farmer, in the Mark Lane Express.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 May 1865 · page 8

THE breeding of poultry has attained a high position, and the varieties are as distinct as are Shorthorned cattle from Herefords, or Southdown sheep from Longwools, and like them, too, they have more or less…

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Before Mr. District Judge Dowling. Cooper and Another V. CATTLE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 May 1865 · page 8

This was on action to recover the sum of £12 10s., the balance of an account alleged to be due for commission upon the sale of a lease of a house by defendant's instructions. It appeared that the defendant held the lease of a…

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London Wool Report

Sydney Mail · Saturday 20 May 1865 · page 8

The Times of March 27th says:—The first series of colonial wool sales of 1866 commenced on the 2nd instant. They comprised 84,352 bales, of which 23,654 bales were Cape wools, the balance Australian…

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Wool, Tallow, Hides, &c

Empire · Saturday 20 May 1865 · page 4

City of Sydney, for London: 2816 bales wool, 556 casks [?]allow. 6128 hides, 5000 [?], a quau[?] bones, 7 casks sperm [?] 186 bags cotton seed, 310[?] bags copper ore, 20 tons copper, 70 bales rage, 60 [?] 8 skins, 10 cases plants, 10 cases…

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