26 BULLETIN 764, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
It was necessary to begin treating all of the damaged corn almost 
immediately after it was discharged from 
the steamship. Some of the corn from 
the bottom of the three forward holds 
which was in fair condition when dis- 
charged, ‘‘went out of condition”’ and be- 
came hot within a short time after being 
landed, and this also had to be handled 
at once. The damaged corn from this 
cargo was ventilated by hand shoveling, 
each shovelful being thrown into the air 
in such a manner that the kernels became 
separated and fully exposed to the air. 
Figure 16 shows how a part of the hot 
corn from this cargo, which was piled on 
the open quay, was treated to stop the 
process of fermentation. 
The heavy shading represents heat-damaged corn as discharged. 
CARGO No. 2. 
Cargo No. 2 consisted of 211,064 bush- 
els of corn, of which 30,500 bushels had 
been artificially dried. The corn was 
loaded, February 27, 28, March 1, and 2, 
1911. The vessel sailed March 3 and 
arrived at Aalborg, Denmark, April 5, 
where 88,827 bushels of the corn were dis- 
charged from April 5 to 11. The steam- 
ship was then taken to Copenhagen, Den- 
mark, where the remaining 122,237 bush- 
els in the cargo were discharged, the last 
of the corn being taken out on April 20. 
The maximum time that any of the corn 
was in the vessel was 53 days, the aver- 
age time for the Aalborg lot being 39 days 
and for the Copenhagen lot 47 days. The 
length of the ocean voyage to Aalborg 
was 33 days and to Copenhagen 40 days. 
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STOWAGE OF THE CORN. 
The steamship had five cargo uolds. 
As is shown in figure 17, holds Nos. 2, 3, 
and 4 were entirely filled with corn, while 
holds 1 and 5 were each filled only to the 
main deck, leaving an air space of about 
8 feet on top of the corn in the central or “trunk” part of the holds. 
