Roseworthy Agricultural College. Bust of John Ridley. Inventor of the wheat stripper in 1843. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Roseworthy Agricultural College. Bust of John Ridley. Inventor of the wheat stripper in 1843. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Where did he stick his nose to lose the tip like that? Roseworthy Agricultural College, now part of the University of Adelaide.This was the first agricultural college established in Australia in 1883. The founding professor, J.D. Custance was brought to SA by the government in 1881. He pioneered work on superphosphate which immediately improved the declining wheat yields of lands that had by then been worked by several generations. The first company to manufacture superphosphate for farmers was the Adelaide Chemical Works at Torrensville which was founded in 1883 for this express purpose. By the 1890s they had opened super factories in Port Adelaide and Wallaroo. This pioneering work had a huge impact not only on SA farming but across the nation. The main building of Roseworthy dates from 1883 with its bluestone walls and red brick quoins. The clock tower was built then too, but the clock was not installed until 2003. Note the decorative chimneys and on the northern side you can see where the projecting stones were ready for further extensions. In front of the building in the lawns is a memorial to another agricultural SA pioneer- John Ridley. He is acclaimed in SA as the inventor of the first mechanical wheat stripper. This reduced the farmers need for labourers, sped up the harvest, and made larger farms feasible. Early in 1843 at Hindmarsh John Ridley drew plans and developed his first stripper in time for the 1843 spring harvest. It was trialled on the property of a friend, Mr Bagot at Koonunga near Kapunda. In 1844 the Royal Horticultural Society of SA awarded Ridley a prize for his invention. Others however, claim that John W.Bull of Mt Barker invented a stripper before Ridley. Bull was one of 15 exhibitors of a proposed harvester for the Horticultural Society in 1843.Bull actually only produced a skeleton concept with wheat heads being beaten off, rather than cut off. This principle was later adopted by all strippers but Ridley was the clear winner of a full mechanical stripper. Given that McCormicks in the USA had patented a mechanical stripper as early as 1834 one wonders what influence that had, if any, on the SA inventors? Ridley went on to lay out the township of Wasleys- our next stop- and the hotel there is named after him. Ridley established his own flour mill at Hindmarsh but in 1853 he returned to live in England never returning in SA. His plans for Wasleys lay on the drawing board for 20 years before it was implemented. Whilst on campus note the beautiful cream coloured limestone chapel with the orange terracotta tiled roof. It was dedicated in 1955. We will drive past the Roseworthy Information Centre- only open on weekdays and well worth a visit. Today the campus still operates a 1,600 hectare farm with cereal and legume grains, a dairy herd of 150 cows, livestock stud operations, Merino sheep farming, and pig and poultry units. The current dairy herd was established in 1890 making it the oldest dairy herd in SA. All milk is commercially sold from the Herringbone style dairy. |
| 撮影日 | 2004-01-01 02:04:19 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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