64 BULLETIN 764, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
of 100° F., tested 48.7 c. c. in acidity, and none of it would germinate. 
Sample No. 14, taken from about the same height in the corn as 
sample No. 13, had a temperature of but 49° F., tested 24.8 ¢. c. in 
acidity, and germinated 50 per cent. Sample No. 16, taken from 
near the bottom on the starboard side had a temperature of 93° F., 
tested 38.7 c. c. in acidity, and germinated 22 per cent. The tem- 
perature record for this sample, in figure 40 shows that its temperature 
was 46° F.when loaded 
and that from March 
28 to April 7 there 
was but little change, 
but from then on the 
temperature increased 
until it reached 93° F. 
when discharged. As 
will be seen in Table 
29, only one sample, 
No. 14, tested under 
30 ¢. c. in acidity at 
AT ae Gao the time of discharge. 
c NG s iS RY 
é Eos WSs : Hold 3 was one 
ee SS § § 3 deck higher than hold 
10 198 479 $37 Ise 8 li and had a ‘‘feeder’’ 
rounding one more 
§ 23 738 11 deck above that. 
This hold was located 
sav ie ig © J US t forward lof the 
boiler room. Fully 
three-fourths of the 
corn as discharged 
was badly heat-dam- 
aged, The tempera- 
ture of the corn in this 
hold at the time of 
Fie. 40.—Hold 2: Temperature records of electrical resistance ther- discharge ranged from 
mometers, location of the thermometers in the hold,and samples 44° to 140° F. - which 
ee ee Nee Heavy shading represents heat-damaged was gre ater by 7 de- 
grees than the min- 
imum and by 100 degrees than the maximum temperatures of the 
corn when loaded. Thermometer No. 18, which was located in 
the ‘‘feeder’”’ about 4 feet below the surface of the corn, registered an 
increase in temperature from the very beginning of the voyage. The 
maximum temperature recorded during the voyage was 144° F., on April 
15, after which there was aslight decrease. The corn surrrounding this 
thermometer had a temperature of over 120° F. for 10 days before 
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