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AMERICAN EXPORT CORN ( MAIZE ) IN EUROPE. 



AMERICAN CORN CERTIFICATED AS 



"no. 2 CORN," ''no. 



2 CORN, SAIL 

 GRADE," OR "prime (sAIL) MIXED CORN," EXAMINED IN EUROPE 

 FROM NOVEMBER, 190G, TO MAY, 1907, INCLUSIVE. 



Table II shows in detail the results of the personal examination 

 of eighty-eight cargoes of corn on their arrival during the months 

 from November, 1906, to May, 1907, inclusive, at the principal 

 European grain-receiving ports. The eighty-eight cargoes contained 

 an aggregate of 6,598,351 bushels, of which quantity 1,120,900 bush- 

 els, or 17 per cent, w^ere found to be in a heating or hot condition. 

 The cargoes were loaded at the different Atlantic and Gulf ports in 

 the United States on various dates from October 17, 1906, to May 9, 

 1907. The corn in forty-five of the cargoes arrived cool throughout. 

 The corn in forty-three of the cargoes was found to be more or less 

 heating or hot, 100 per cent heating or hot being reached in five car- 

 goes aggregating 254,073 bushels. 



The length of time that the corn was in the vessels varied from 14 

 to 58 days. All of the corn which was in the vessels under 16 days 

 arrived cool. One of the cargoes examined was en route 58 days, 

 with 60,000 bushels of corn containing 14.4 per cent of moisture, but 

 sustained no damage. Another cargo carrying 17,142 bushels of 

 corn containing 16.7 per cent of moisture was en route 56 days and 

 24.5 per cent of the cargo was found to be heating or hot on arrival. 



The moisture content of the cool corn examined on arrival during 

 the period varied from 12 to 20.6 per cent, an average of 17.1 per 

 cent. Approximately 2,748,000 bushels, or 50.2 per cent, of the cool 

 corn contained moisture exceeding 18 per cent. The dirt and for- 

 eign material, with one exception, varied from 0.2 of 1 per cent to 

 4.5 per cent. In one cargo, the above exception, one sample analyzed 

 62.5 per cent of dirt and foreign matter but was representative only 

 of a considerable quantity of corn that was located just under one of 

 the hatches of one of the ships. 



Table II. — American corn certificated as "No. 2 Corn," "No. 2 Corn, Sail Grade," 

 or" Prime {Sail) Mixed Corn" examined in Europe from November, 1906, to May, 1907, 

 inclusive, showing the quantity found heating or hot, etc. 



« Except where the entire cargo was heating or hot. 

 b Date of loading given is the sailing date. 

 c Days from sailing to discharge. 



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