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Biological Sciences Needed by a Student Specializing in Animal Husbandry¹

University of Wisconsin

Abstract

My first reaction when requested to discuss the biology needed by an animal husbandry student was to ask why I, who have never been directly connected with an animal husbandry department and have never taught animal husbandry as such, should have been singled out for the job. Concluding that it was more gracious to feel flattered that it was because my early training was in biology than to suspect revenge by one who had suffered under my tutelage, I replied that perhaps I might be able to scrape together one or two original ideas on the subject which I could present at this time. My next move, which was to skim the reports of this section of the Society for several years past, convinced me that I had been too optimistic—it looked as if about everything on the subject had already been said, often several times, and better than I could put it. It seemed as if the easiest, and perhaps most honest, thing to do would be to prepare an anthology on the subject by quoting judiciously from previous reports; vanity, however, forces me to attempt at least a new perspective. Furthermore, it was intimated that the committee on mehods of teaching wanted something a little more concrete in the way of suggestions. I can only attempt to feed a little grain into their hopper and let the committee do the grinding.

Anyone reading an assemblage of discussions on agricultural teaching is bound to be struck by the general unanimity with respect to the desirability of a broad training for agricultural students, and what is said for agricultural students in general may be applied equally to those in the special field of animal husbandry.

¹ Paper from the Department of Genetics, Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Wisconsin. No. 125. Published with the approval of the Director of the Station.