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Subject matter in freshman courses pertaining to horses

Iowa State College

Abstract

What may seem an adequate and workable plan for one institution, may not be applicable for another because of the wide differences in the Agricultural curriculum and occupational disposition of the graduates. This paper, therefore, deals with horse work as it is taught at Iowa State College at the present time and it is not necessarily presented as an ideal that is adaptable to all colleges and universities.

It has always been our contention that the freshman work should deal with commercial animals and commercial live stock production rather than with breed studies. H. W. Vaughan in the preface to his book entitled, "Types and Market Classes of Livestock" comments on the commercial animal approach as follows,

"This is the most practical method of teaching because the market should serve as a guide to breeder and feeder; and it is best from a pedagogical standpoint because finished animals for the market are easiest to judge, are judged on practical points, the student begins his judging with the more elementary and proceeds to the more complex types, and as he progresses to each new stage he brings with him a soundly practical viewpoint gained from his previous experience.