22 BULLETIN 764, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
corn at that point was 113.5° F. at the end of the voyage, as against 
a temperature of only 67° F. for thermometer 13 (fig. 5), in hold 
3 located in the bottom portion of the natural ‘Central’? corn only 
a short distance from thermometer 23. 
Fig. 12.—Illustrating the sprouted condition of the surface layer of cornin hold 1 when the cargo 
arrived in Denmark. (Cargo No. 1.) 
The difference between the keeping qualities of corn contain- 
ing a high moisture content and showing a high acid test and 
of corn in which these two factors are low was illustrated in 
Fig, 13.—-Showing where “ sweat’? had dropped from the underside of the deck onto the 
bags of corn in the upper part of the hold. (Cargo No. 1.) 
holds 3 and 4. In hold 3 the natural “Southwestern” corn, 
which at time of loading was lower on an average by 4 per 
cent in moisture content and by 0.8 c¢. c. in acidity than the nat- 
ural ‘‘Central”’ corn in the same hold, remained sound, while the 
