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A Student Specializing in Animal Husbandry Needs Chemistry and Physics

University of Illinois

Abstract

The value of a knowledge of chemistry and physics to the student specializing in animal husbandry may be considered with reference first to his general education, and then with reference to the general fields of work into which he may ultimatly find his place, namely, practical livestock farming and industries related thereto, teaching, including extension work, and research.

It seems unnecessary to distinguish between chemistry and physics in this discussion. The boundary line between the two sciences has been entirely obliterated. They are both concerned with the constitution and the differentiation of matter, the interrelations between the different forms of matter, and the study of energy in its various manifestations. In some connections the value of chemistry is paramount, and in others the value of physics, but in any connection it is mainly a matter of emphasis, not of discrimination. The fact that a good basic knowledge of the subject can be acquired in physics in one-half to one-fourth of the time required for the same purpose in chemistry as these subjects are ordinarily taught in college, may be the result of differences either in the complexity of the phenomena with which they deal, or in their amenability to generalization; or conceivably the situation is the outcome merely of differences in educational theories and practices.