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Phases of Animal Husbandry Education

Saddle and Sirloin Club

Abstract

High Lights of the Past

Knowledge of animal husbandry grew out of experience. The first books that were published on livestock subjects were entirely empirical, and it is within the memory of all of the older husbandmen of this generation when organized investigation in the field began. Considering the vastness of the subject, the milestones of progress are unexpectedly few, especially when we examine its literature.

The advancement of civilization is recorded in the written words of its historians, philosophers, and scientists. We must therefore turn to the writers in the field of animal husbandry if we are to locate the beacon lights that have marked our progress. The first illumination of our path came in the last decade of the preceding century, when Professor John A. Craig published his "Live Stock Judging." Practically simultaneous with it was that other monumental achievement, Dean Henry's "Feeds and Feeding." Only a few years after these came the third member of our trilogy in animal husbandry literature, the fructified efforts of our guest of honor this evening, "Breeds and Types of Farm Animals."