CARRYING QUALITIES OF EXPORT CORN. 73 
the corn at the bottom fluctuated somewhat, being influenced to 
some extent by the temperature of the sea water. 
Hold 3 was filled with corn to the second deck. The corn as dis- 
charged was badly heat damaged in the upper part of the hold and 
ranged from 65° to 141° F. in temperature, 27.6 to 47.7 c.c. in acid- 
ity, 0 to 65 per cent in germination, 0 to 91.8 per cent in sound 
kernels, and 47 to 53.8 in test weight per bushel. The corn in this 
hold at time of load- ee 
: APRIL 
ing had a tempera- 28 30 5 7 9 N13 16 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 
i , {iret a 
ture rangingfrom 56° = '*9 f moe Cee 
130 { t | + 4 
to 66° F., which tem- — y!20 nue | | 
perature increased Eco = i ql 
very rapidly at the © - ap 4 
= My 80 Lf [ arial “rl 
surface during the i Anse Ce Sea a | 
early part of the voy- i | iF S2800enec. 000i 1 
age and was over 120° iG. Nisedtagie Galan 
F.in a week after the ) 
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= IE 
ae 
— lh 
th 
OCEAN VorAce tI 
vessel sailed; it con- 24% . om 
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tinued to increase 4 : : gE ay 
“1° Qa R 
until it reached 141° ce 8 g g g ; 
: : Py g 
F. by the time the ioe 146 428 180 1 
corn was discharged. ea meee ee 
. . rary -l26 382 16.7 
This is shown in the = ig Pa ig aoe 128 SS 
temperature record See ta 
40 4178 290 -82 310 168 5 
for thermometer 8, 
7O 293 172 6 
nome 49) Asmwillbe “ \7* 9° 
seen in Table 33, 
sample No. 8, which 
was taken from near 
the surface of the 
corn, tested 43.6 c. ¢. 
in acidity and none 
of the kernels would 
germinate. The corn 
at this position was Fig. 48.—Hold 2: Temperature records of electrical resistance ther- 
very moldy, sour, and mometers, location of the thermometers in the hold, and samples 
bad] y h eat d amaged secured at Belfast. Heavy shading represents heat-damaged corn. 
There was not much °“ 
change in the temperature of the corn located one-third of the dis- 
tance down in the hold in the first 10 or 12 days of the voyage, but 
from that time on it increased more rapidly until on April 24 it was 
118° F., asisshown by the record for thermometer 10. The corn sur- 
rounding this thermometer, as discharged, tested 34 c. c. in acidity 
and 34 per cent in germination. The temperature of the corn located 
two-thirds of the distance down in the hold increased only 9° F. 
during the time it was in the vessel, as is shown by the tempera- 
