Excerpt from U. T. Farmer, Vol. 1

Without reason the subject of Biology has sometimes been announced as applying especially to a discussion of lower forms of plant and animal life. This is an unfortunate interpretation of the term, as the spirit of biological investigation is expansion and knows no limit until all of the problems associated with the life of all plants and animals have been solved.

Biology has long been of the keenest interest to that small coterie of investigators in pure science who seek knowledge for its own sake without regard to its application. In many cases the facts discovered have been practically applied, as is instanced in the recent modification and consequent strengthening of national and state quarantines relative to Teaxs and yellow fevers.

Within recent years the medical, dental, veterinary medical, and other professions have required more advanced courses in Biology before granting graduation certificates or degrees. If this be true of special professions, having to do with the organization of parts or individual species of animals, how much more important should the study be to the agriculturist, whose knowledge is to extend to at least a general understanding of the complicated lines of representatives of all plant and animal types.

That Biology should form a basis for agricultural knowledge is rapidly being recognized. The fundamental understanding of all branches of Biology; of the classification of biological facts; of protoplasm, its properties, functions, possibilities of differentiation; of the cell as a convenient protoplasmic unit: and of the changes taking place in reproduction and growth, are vital to a comprehensive understanding of what takes place in plant and animal development as exemplified on every farm devoted to the profitable production of plants and animals.

Thorough courses in Botany and Zoology (Biology), associated with liberal training in Physics and Chemistry, and given preparatory to the more practical and composite studies of Agronomy and Animal Husbandry, can not but widen and intensify the general agricultural horizon of the agricultural student.

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