CARRYING QUALITIES OF EXPORT CORN. 67 
Taste 31.—E feet of the shaft tunnel heat on the corn stowed next to the shaft tunnel in 
hold 4, cargo No. 6. | 
Increase | Increase | Decrease | Decrease Decrease. 
Sample No. in tem- in in germi-| in sound pa Ware 
perature.| acidity. | nation. | ke 5 
= y Tels bushel. 
SoAe CHC: Per cent. | Per cent.| Pounds. 
Bate cass a Se Sa Se BERR AS SS SSE BOE Seen ee 27 2.5 23 § 1. 00 
23 STG, OMSL oe eee See oes See eee Safe pets 5 ail 3 8.9 NS 87/ 
1 Sample was located on the shaft tunnel. 
*A verage for these two samples. 
2 Sample was located same height as No. 34, but halfway between shaft tunnel and the sides of the hold. 
The effect on the corn of the heat from the engine room which 
penetrated through the shaft tunnel in the bottom of the hold is 
shown in Table 81. 
The corn located di- 
rectly on the shaft 
tunnel increased 27° 
F. during the voyage, 
- while the corn located 
the same height as the 
tunnel, but halfway 
between the tunnel 
and the sides of the 
hold, increased 7 de- 
grees on the port side 
and 8 degrees on the 
starboard side, as is 
shown in figure 43. 
TEMPERATURE °F 
There was no _ heat- ; r ae : 
* - 2 re) > = 
discolored corn in the “ S g 5S hols 
> is Seed 
hold at the end of the ¢ 8 §& § H s 65 & 
voyage, but the corn 3 $ 2 & Resta) 
yase, Bouis <-pceyy}--- 77 287 — | 3 
35 150 SO! 50 - once! Ica, 61 299 i684 37 
at the surface along 
the upper part of the 
engine-room bulkhead 
and along the top of 
the shaft tunnel was musty, somewhat moldy, and “‘packed.”’ The 
corn in the hold ranged from 50° to 85° F. in temperature and 25.5 
to 32.7 c. c. in acidity (4 samples tested slightly over 30 c. c. and 
12 samples tested under 30 c. c. in acidity), from 7 to 52 per cent in 
germination, and from 57.9 to 95.6 per cent in sound kernels. 
The corn in hold 5 as discharged varied from 44° to 120° F. in 
temperature, from 22.9 to 54.9 c. ¢. in acidity, and from 5 to 66 per 
cent in germination. A small amount of the corn a few feet under 
Fig. 43.—Hold 4: Showing effect of the heat from the propeller-shaft 
tunnel on the corn located against the tunnel. (Cargo No. 6.) 
