AMERICAN EXPORT CORN ( MAIZE ) IN EUROPE. 5 



THE RESULTS OF INVESTIGATIONS. 

 SUMMARY OF CARGO EXAMINATION. 



The tables and diagrams showing the details of the three seasons' 

 work, collectively, show that a total of 15,077,987 bushels of corn, 

 all of which was certificated as being either "No. 2 Corn," "No. 

 2 Corn, Sail Grade," or "Prime (Sail) Mixed Corn" (grades of simi- 

 lar requirements as to quality and condition) at the different export 

 points on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, and for- 

 warded in 175 steamships, were examined on arrival at the various 

 European grain-receiving ports; that, as a result of careful examina- 

 tions and estimates, 1,911,374 bushels, or 12.7 per cent, of that total 

 quantity were found on arrival to be in a heating or hot condition, 

 some portions of which were so badly damaged as to be entirely unfit 

 ft)r feeding purposes. The percentage of heating an«i hot corn varied 

 in the different cargoes and parcels, 100 per cent heating or hot being 

 reached in a total of eight cases during the whole of the three seasons. 



EXPLANATION OF THE TERMS USED IN TABLES. 



The columns headed "Date of loading" in the tables, except where 

 otherwise specified, show the dates borne on the certificates of inspec- 

 tion accompan}dng the different shipments, and are consequently 

 the dates when the loading at the American port was completed. 

 The columns headed "Days in boat" represent, inmost cases, the 

 number of days from the date of loading to the date the samples were 

 drawn in Europe at the time the cargo was being discharged. 



The percentages of "Dirt and foreign material" in each case 

 include all finely broken corn particles that would pass through a 

 26-gauge 10 by 10 mesh wire sieve, and any other material not corn 

 which was found in the samples as drawn. Great care was exercised to 

 obtain samples that would represent the correct average of the dirt 

 and foreign matter in the grain being sampled, the percentages given 

 being determined by actual separations and weighings. All of the 

 samples drawn from the cargoes were placed immediately in air- 

 tight containers in order to guard against any change in their moisture 

 content before being tested. 



FACTORS CONCERNING WHICH NO INFORMATION WAS AVAILABLE. 



Some of the factors concerning which no data were available, and 

 which no doubt have their own peculiar influence on the condition of 

 corn in ocean transit, include whether or not fermentation had started 

 in the corn at the time of loading; the temperature of the atmosphere 

 and the temperature of the grain at the time of loading; the char- 

 acter and condition in all cases of other freight loaded next to or on 

 top of the grain; the treatment to which the grain was subjected 

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