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Fifty Years of Progress in Dairy Production Teaching

Department of Dairy Husbandry, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

ABSTRACT

A half-century of progress in dairy production teaching—how indeed can it be measured? The period from 1906 to 1956 has been one of startling changes in the various fields of science, with greater developments emerging during that half-century than in all previous recorded history. During that period bacteriology, genetics, and endocrinology emerged as full-fledged scientific disciplines, and the developments in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology, and nutrition are almost beyond belief. Agricultural research in various fields has been no less startling in its developments. Thus the situation has changed greatly by the expansion of scientific knowledge, much of which has had implications for dairy production teaching. As here discussed, dairy production teaching deals with the selection, breeding, feeding, housing, and management of dairy cattle for the economical and sanitary production of milk. Since comparison is one of the most effective methods of high-lighting change, the faculty, courses, curricula, and equipment of one institution, the University of Nebraska, will be discussed as of 1906 and 1956 as a sample of a half-century of change.