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Custance, John Daniel (1842 - 1923)

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Agricultural scientist

Born: 1842 Norfolk, England. Died: 14 December 1923 Black Forest, South Australia, Australia.

John Daniel Custance was appointed the first professor of Roseworthy Agricultural College, South Australia in 1881. He conducted a series of fertiliser trials on cereals, which were extended by Professor William Lowrie from 1887 onwards. They reported on the beneficial residual effects of superphosphate on the clover pastures which followed the cereal crop.

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Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/scripts/tia-dynindex.php3?EID=P000087. [ Details ]

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Prepared by: McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993
Modified: 26 July 2006

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