CARRYING QUALITIES OF EXPORT CORN. 
The corn in holds 
1 and 2 showed prac- 
tically no change 
during the voyage 
and was discharged 
in sound condition. 
The temperature rec- 
ordsfor the thermom- 
eters located in the 
various positions in 
these holds are illus- 
trated in figures 65 
and 66. 
Hold 3 had one 
cargo hold between 
it and the boiler 
room, and, although 
the corn had been 
artificially dried be- 
fore loading and there 
was no opportunity 
for the heat from the 
boiler to penetrate 
APRIL 
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18.0 se 9 
Fic. 66.—Hold 2: Temperature records of electrical resistance ther- 
mometers, location of the thermometers in the hold, and samples 
secured at Liverpool. Heavy shading represents heat-damaged 
corn. (Cargo No. 9.) 
this hold, still some 
2 6 
"4s of the corn became 
will be noted from 
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3 
: Bee seeecca ss hot and damaged dur- 
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Table 42 that some of 
the samples secured 
at the time of loading 
tested the highest in 
SSS S= 61 22.0 22 12 nap 
a ey Slomnom ioe acidity (26.6 Cc. cs) of 
“15 
any samples in the 
cargo that were se- 
cured at that time, 
showing that at least 
some of the corn in 
this hold had under- 
Fic. 67.—Hold 3: 
secured at Liverpool. 
corn. (Cargo No. 9.) 
gone considerable de- 
terioration before it 
was loaded into the 
hold and was in a dan- 
Temperature records of electrical resistance ther- 2{CTOUS condition for 
mometers, location of the thermometers in the hold, and samples 
Heavy shading represents heat-damaged 
export, with an aver- 
age moisture content 
