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May 14, 2024 · Quotable Facts. Wages in the United States, 1830-1839. Farm laborer monthly earnings, 1818-1948. Lists average monthly earnings with board, by geographic divisions, p. 163. Read the explanation and historical context for this table. Building-trades wages - 1800 to 1836.
- Marie Concannon
- 2012
- Memoirs of The Society by Pennsylvania Agricultural Society – 1824
- American Natural History, Volume 1 by John Davidson Godman – 1836
- Army and Navy Chronicle – 1839
- Ohio Cultivator Vol. 3 No. 1 Columbus, Ohio, January 1, 1847
- Breeding, Training, Management, Diseases, etc. of Dogs by Francis Butler – 1860
- Facts For Farmers; Also For The Family Circle, Volume 1 by Solon Robinson – 1867
- The Practical Shepherd, by Henry Stephens Randall – 1875
- Biennial report, Volume 14 by Kansas State Horticultural Society – 1885
The first importations of Merino sheep, were accompanied by some of the large, and powerful dogs of Spain, possessing all the valuable characteristics of the English Shepherd’s dog, with sagacity, fidelity, and strength, peculiar to themselves.
The Eskimaux dog bears a considerable resemblance to the English shepherd dog, but is much stronger and broader across the breast…
The dogs were of the bloodhound, species, used in Cuba in hunting wild cattle. They are represented as being about the size of the English shepherd’s dog, with nothing at all extraordinary in their appearance.
Shepherd’s Dog Wanted Any person having a good Scotch or English shepherd’s dog to dispose of, will confer a favor by informing us, stating particulars. The following is from a late number of the Marrietta Intelligencer: Shepherd’s Dog.—One of the greatest curiosities in town on the day of the late Agricultural Fair, was the shepherd’s dog, belongi...
The breeds best known and most in use in this country, are the Pointer, Setter, Spaniel, Fox-hound, Beagle, Greyhound, Bull-dog, Bull-terrier, Scotch and English Terrier, Newfoundland, St. Bernard, Scotch and English Shepherd-dog, Poodle, &c.
The English shepherd dogs vary considerably in appearance from the Scotch. The hair is smoother, and they do not appear so distinct a breed as the other. Both are of medium size, perhaps about fifteen inches high.
The Drover’s Dog, or English Sheep Dog, or Butcher’s Dog—for by all these different names is he known — is thus described by Mr. Theodore C. Peters, of Darien, New York, in third volume of the American Agriculturist, 1844 : “I purchased a bitch of the tailless species, known as the English drover dog, in Smithfield market, some two years ago. That ...
Since that time I have had a large experience with rabbits, and I am quite frequently interrogated in regard to the best manner of saving trees from these pests. While there are many ways, any of which may be partially successful in coping: with them, I really think most favorably of the remedy afforded by cats and dogs. A good, active English shep...
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In 1839 the usual wage for a shepherd was about AU£50 per year, plus weekly rations of 12 pounds (5.4 kg) meat, 10 pounds (4.5 kg) flour, 2 pounds (0.91 kg) sugar and 4 ounces (110 g) tea. The wage during the depression of the 1840s dropped to £20 a year.
1 day ago · Shows daily wages paid to male and female French day laborers. Also shows wages paid to cartwrights, farriers, masons, locksmiths, carpenters, tilers, thatchers, shepherds, farm-yard boys, etc. Amounts are expressed in British pounds sterling using an exchange rate of 25 francs to the pound.
- Marie Concannon
- 2012
Apr 1, 2008 · Shepherding in Colonial Australia - Volume 19 Issue 1. Stephens, J. 1839. The Land of Promise: Being an Authentic and Impartial History of the Rise and Progress of the New British Province of South Australia; including Particulars Descriptive of its Soil, Climate, Natural Productions, &c., and Proofs of its Superiority to all Other British colonies, embracing also a Full Account of the South ...
- John Pickard
- 2008
May 14, 2024 · Women's wages, 1840-1849. Teacher wages by sex - Massachusetts, 1840s. Woman in 1848. Lists monthly cost of board for males and females as well. 1840-1841: Males earned $33.81; females $12.81 per month. 1848-1849: Males earned $34.02; females $14.19 per month.
On 12 December 1845, a shepherd walked into the George Street, Sydney, shop of goldsmith E. D. Cohen carrying a specimen of gold embedded in quartz for sale, with the gold weighing about four ounces (113 g), [clarification needed] with the shepherd saying he had been robbed of double as much on his way to town. The shepherd did not disclose ...
