Browsing by Author "Hunt, Ralph E."

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    The ancestral descent of important Hampshire sheep
    Litton, George Washington (Virginia Tech, 1940-06-05)
    The ram C-1659 is the sire of more outstanding winners at the International Livestock Exposition from 1913 to 1938 than any other ram. Blendworth Herriard 45215, the sire of C-1659, is the most important sire of ewes the dams of winners at the same show. Concentrations in varying proportions of the blood of these two rams and other sons and grandsons of Goldmine, have produced more important winning sheep than any other blood or families used in the United States. As far as the age of either parent is concerned with Hampshire sheep, the offspring born at one age is no more apt to be a winner than the offspring born at another. A good breeding individual was apt to be so from the beginning. However, ewes for example, may respond very differently to two rams of unlike breeding as far as quality of offspring is concerned. Rams may differ in their ability to transmit desirable characteristics to their offspring on the basis of sex of the offspring. Some may sire better ewes, while some may sire rams of superior quality. This work suggests that there may be a 1:3:1 ratio among outstanding rams so that of five sires randomly selected, one would sire superior ewes, one superior rams, and three could do both equally well.
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    The effect of the plane of nutrition of pregnant ewes upon their lamb and wool production
    Graves, John Thomas (Virginia Tech, 1939-06-15)
    Sheep were among the first animal domesticated by man, and have always been one of his most valuable beasts. Increasing efforts have been made to improve both wool and mutton, in order to give the greatest financial returns to the sheep grower.
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    Feeding 2 yr. old beef cattle
    Hunt, Ralph E. (Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute, 1916)
    Thie experiment was conducted by the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station for the purpose of comparing the values of several feeds for wintering beef steers with especial regard for local conditions. 1st. 28 lbs. silage and 1 lb. cottonseed meal will maintain 1000-pound steers during the winter without a loss of more than 25 lbs. per head. 2nd. 38 lbs. silage per steer per day will give about the same results as above. 3rd. Steers will change from grass to silage and from silage to grass again with practically no loss in weight. 4th. Steers fed silage alone, and stover and corn meal during the winter were the only steers to average 2 pounds gain per day on grass. 5th. Steers fed on silage alone made greatest total gain at the lowest cost per 100 pounds gain. 6th. Steers fed on stover and corn meal made the least total gain at the greatest cost per 100 pounds gain. 7th. Silage is a very economical feed for wintering steers, while stover and corn meal is a very costly feed. 8th. One pound of cottonseed meal will replace ten pounds of silage and it may be advisable to make this substitution when silage is scarce, or cottonseed meal cheap, or both, although cottonseed meal is not absolutely necessary. 9th. Winter steers so that they will not lose more than 25 pounds each during the winter months, for greater losses cannot be overcome during the grazing season.
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    Feeding dairy cows
    Hunt, Ralph E. (Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute, 1916)
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    Leading Hereford Sires in the United States
    Hunt, Ralph E. (Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute, 1916)
    The forty-eight animals that won first, second, third, and fourth places in the twelve regular classes at the 1913 International Live Stock Show are taken as basis for this study. Each and every one of these animals are representative of the highest of Hereford standards. While it is true that these forty-eight animals do not represent the entire breed, they do representt the highest type of Herefords that is being produced in the United States, and for a sire to be rated among the foremost he should be closely related to these leading animals.
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    A study of beef cattle in nine middle Virginia counties
    Terry, N. C. (Virginia Tech, 1946-05-05)
    The counties involved in this study belong to the Piedmont Plateau. Soils are largely from crystalline rock and except for small areas of Davidson and Lloyd types, the soils are derived from acidic rock. The soils of this area are deficient in phosphorus but are fairly well supplied with potassium. In most cases lime and phosphate are the limiting factors in securing high yields of pasture and forage crops, and in getting stands of certain legumes.