. Cyclopedia of farm animals. Domestic animals; Animal products. CHAPTER II PHYSIOLOGY OF THE ANIMAL. |HYSIOLOGY IS THE SCIENCE OP THE PROCESSES OP LIFE. A knowledge of it underlies all rational '.reatment of animals and plants. Very little funda- mental knowledge of physijiogical laws and phenomena has been available to the farmer, and he has been greatly handicapped thereby. Lacking this foun- dation and a point of view, his attempts to explain what he has seen have too often followed his prejudices and the traditions that have come down to him. It is not necessary that the layman's knowledg
. Cyclopedia of farm animals. Domestic animals; Animal products. CHAPTER II PHYSIOLOGY OF THE ANIMAL. |HYSIOLOGY IS THE SCIENCE OP THE PROCESSES OP LIFE. A knowledge of it underlies all rational '.reatment of animals and plants. Very little funda- mental knowledge of physijiogical laws and phenomena has been available to the farmer, and he has been greatly handicapped thereby. Lacking this foun- dation and a point of view, his attempts to explain what he has seen have too often followed his prejudices and the traditions that have come down to him. It is not necessary that the layman's knowledge of physiology be deep, but it should be rational: that is, whether much or little, it should be founded on fact and be true as far as it goes, his mind should be free of prejudice, and his point of view should be correct. But in order that the public point of view may be rational, somebody must delve for the fundamental facts. We are greatly in need of a recognized body of leaders in these matters, who shall shape public opinion. There are already many such men, but not enough as yet to fertilize the agricultural mind. The farmers are willing to learn and to accept sound doctrine. The necessity, therefore, is for a more liberal organization and support of chairs and institutions that shall be devoted to research into the central facts of physiology, as well of plants as of animals. The study of animal physiology is involved in special difficulties because of the fact that animals are what may be regarded as personalities and because experimental physiology demands large numbers of animals and extensive quarters. Physiology is not merely the study of the vital processes within the animal body, as text-books would lead us to think: it is quite as much a study of the whole life relation. Life processes express themselves in welfare. This welfare is the result not only of alimen- tation and reproduction, and the processes of the internal organs; it results also from the whole rel
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