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Page 45
... SHEEP BOILING - DOWN When the price paid for wool began to fall in 1840-41 , so too did the market price of sheep . Squatters who had bought their stock at £ 2 or £ 3 per head with money borrowed at from 10 to 15 per cent per annum ...
... SHEEP BOILING - DOWN When the price paid for wool began to fall in 1840-41 , so too did the market price of sheep . Squatters who had bought their stock at £ 2 or £ 3 per head with money borrowed at from 10 to 15 per cent per annum ...
Page 46
... sheep to the butchers , but should make a point of sending three or four hundred sheep out of every thousand sent to Sydney for sale , to be boiled down , and by pursuing this course they will keep up the price of sheep , and add ...
... sheep to the butchers , but should make a point of sending three or four hundred sheep out of every thousand sent to Sydney for sale , to be boiled down , and by pursuing this course they will keep up the price of sheep , and add ...
Page 489
... sheep and upwards . ... the rate of augmentation in sheep in Victoria has of late years very much declined from what it once was . Thus there were in Victoria in 1846 1850 1863 2,996,992 sheep 6,032,783 7,974,198 " " 99 so that in the ...
... sheep and upwards . ... the rate of augmentation in sheep in Victoria has of late years very much declined from what it once was . Thus there were in Victoria in 1846 1850 1863 2,996,992 sheep 6,032,783 7,974,198 " " 99 so that in the ...
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