University of Minnesota School of Agriculture - Agrarian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Members of the Botany Class learning the principles of plant life A class in Horticulture studying plant propagation by grafting and budding. Page Fifty-011:

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K . - - r 1 1 l , l r 1 img.. ,... i . i T - ' 4' , First roxv-W. M. Sanclstrom, R. A. Itarackman, G, S. Taylor, H. M. Barnett. Second row-G. A. Richardson, J. R. Haag, Dr. C. A. Morrow, Dr. YV. F. Hoffman. Third rolw-glrpg. I. XYilliamson, Dr. C. H. Bailey, Dr. Cornelia Kennedy, Dr. R. A. Gortncr, Dr. . . amer. THE DIVISION OF AGRICULTURAL BIOCHEMISTRY HE Division of Agricultural Biochemistry has charge of the entire field of 'V chemistry as related to agriculture with the exception of soil chemistry ' which is in a separate Division of Soils. Our work is divided into instruction in the School of Agriculture and in the College of Agriculture, and research in the Agricultural Experiment Station. In thc instructional work we attempt to give particular attention to those phases of chemistry which have to do with living processes, both in the field of plant chem- istry and of animal chemistry. Life may be looked upon as the resultant of a series of very complicated chemical and physical reactions, and it is only when all of these reactions are functioning under their optimum conditions that maximum results are secured. This will apply equally to plants growing in the field and to animals, in- cluding man. The purpose of our instruction therefore is to point out the facts that are already known in regard to the normal chemistry of living processes, and in our Experiment Station work we are attempting to secure additional information in re- gard to living processes. , -v 1, i I Page Fifty-three