94 BULLETIN 764, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
of over 17 per cent when shipped during Apriland May. The damaged 
corn was found in the after part of the hold near the shifting boards 
about halfway down in the hold, also in the feeder which extended 
down one deck from the top of the corn under the hatchway. This 
is illustrated in figure 67. 
Hold 4 was located just forward of the boiler room. The corn 
located next to the boiler-room bulkhead became badly heat damaged 
during the voyage, the greatest heat and the most severe damage 
aim uae bemg found at the 
12 13 % 15 16 17 18 19 20 2! 22 23 24 25 26 27282930! 234 & 6 surface of the corn. 
There were no ther- 
mometers located im- 
mediately against the 
boiler-room bulkhead, 
but thermometer 21, 
located even with the 
top of the boiler room 
halfway back in the 
hold registered a rapid 
: increase in tempera- 
. ture from the begin- 
3 ning of the voyage. 
% There was a small air 
conovormecomm Space under the deck 
| Smee ee, and above thercorn, 
a6 2 * extending from the 
a2 se ™ feeder in the forward 
part of the hold to the 
upper part of the 
boiler-room bulkhead, 
and, as soon as full 
steam was gotten up 
in the boilers at the 
beginning of the voy- 
Fic. 68.—Hold 4: Temperature records of electrical resistance ther- age, the heat gene- 
mometers, location of the thermometers in the hold, and samples 3 F 
secured at Liverpool. Heavy shading represents heat-damaged rated in. the boiler 
aris ERS See room penetrated the 
bulkhead ana was transmitted to the corn, where fermentation was 
started and accelerated until the temperature of the corn at this posi- 
tion of stowage ‘had increased from slightly under 50° F. at the be- 
ginning of the voyage on April 16, to over 140° F. April 29, an increase 
of over 90° F. in temperature in 13 days, as is shown in figure 68. 
The condition of the corn in the various positions of stowage in the 
hold as loaded and as discharged is given in Table 42. 
Wy 
TEMPERATUR: 
ACIDITY C.C. 
on GERMINATION % 
20 
an 
ao q AUIDITY C.C. 
ono 
27 26 208 
29 Is 226 
32 42 208 
