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Discussion

E. A. Trowbridge

University of Missouri

Abstract

In a world of living things it seems patent that the facts of life itself are essential if efficiency and satisfaction are to be attained. The limits of success in the field of Animal Husbandry have all too often been set by the knowledge of biologic law. Indeed, nutrition, reproduction, disease and evolution are among the chief concerns of biology, and they lie at the base of successful live stock production.

Emphasis may well be added to the thought that there is a tendency for some teachers to build their courses with the apparent thought that every student who takes them will become a specialist in that particular field. Animal Husbandmen and Biologists are no exceptions. In some cases there seems to be the notion that the students exist for benefit of a department or a subject rather than the teaching of the subject and the department existing to aid the student.

There is more or less general agreement with the thought that it is not necessary to have many courses in agricultural "this or that." This does not eliminate the facts, however, that there are wide gaps in subject matter between courses which students take and that students must fit these various fields of information together into a unified whole. To illustrate, it is conceivable that a beginning course in zoology and one in animal husbandry might each be given in such a way that students would have little reason or opportunity to realize that they both deal with the same general subject, namely life, its processes and uses.






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