86 BULLETIN 764, U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
tion and 0.8 per cent in sound kernels for the corn located the same 
height in the hold but 
FEB. Mi: E 
2329123456789 10 WP Ie 13 Me 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 12 feet distant from 
Seseal ; the bulkhead. The 
20) . 
| corn located against 
o las | | insets the engine-room bulk- 
cael | if | ~ head halfway down in 
ly . : 
Bao | the hold increased 83° 
= 70 ree : 
is | Sj F. in temperature 
aq 60 F : pret ; 5 .4- 2 
aa Za ng ega a 21.6 c. c. in acidity, 
40 [fa yt | 5 and decreased 6.5 
=9 SSS pounds in test weight 
"| ocean vorace (| per bushel, 48 per 
: 5 8 : : : 2 3 cent in germination, 
gees reaeees § § 2 and 86.4 per cent in 
ee oe acs ; ae 
By BN te a8 =ieyaRBORAD SS zoo 2s co SOU kernels. 18 
311 ‘504 140 - BT FP SARA Se See oan : 
B% 25 236 40----5 & qe Sie es oo a0, 1S I contrast with an 
3314 422 45-4—-~ 2S = 32) Mise) 25 s2 A 
Seo Me asennne: @ Fi 3 X mcrease of only if e 
(A)-FORWARD PART OF HOLD . 3 . EF . 
(B)AFTER PART OF HOLD j gS --- SVR Ay 0 37 . in temperature, 0.8 
se 3 402 «15-4 \-+---|- 30 188 25 38 3 2 Fc 
BOR Se {6 ego 10 « C. C. in acidity, anda 
46 35 188 Si-] gp Bp Se = 8° Fy-43 176 30 48 
ao te 196 seh” MAC) mec---] 29 166 s« «8s decrease of only 0.25 
39 2 396 (iG Nees SOO) 168 Si 4!) 
Beilin on ass ae “= 48_202 25 42 ound in test weight 
per bushel, 22 per cent 
in germination, and 
0.2 per cent in sound 
B20 een WE kernels for the corn 
op eg a located the same 
Se ee height in the hold 
but 12 feet distant 
Fic. 59.—Hold 4: Temperature records of electrical resistance ther- 
mometers, locavion of the thermometers in the hold, and samples from the bulkhead. 
secured at Rotterdam. Heavy shading represents heat-damaged '['h e corn locate d 
corn. (Cargo No. 8.) % 
against the lower part 
of the engine-room oa sa 
bulkhead was not 2829!2345 678 9 101! 1213 1415 16 17 1819 20 21 22 
heating, but the tests °° 
showed that it had x 
undergone more de- 
terioration in every 
factor than the corn 
in the lower part of 
the hold but 12 feet 
back from the bulk- 
he ad. The eff ect of Fic. 60.—Temperature records of the corn located from the surface to 
the bottom of the corn near the center of hold 4. (Cargo No. 8.) 
TEMPERATURE 
the engine-room heat 
on the corn located next to the shaft tunnel is described 
