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As a result of the small size of the kernels, the Argentina corn can not 

 carry, without increased danger of deterioration, as high a percentage 

 of water as the larger dent corns of the United States. On the other 

 hand, the hard and firm texture of the Argentina corn is such that it 

 can be "conditioned" to much better advantage than our dent corns. 

 During the summer of 1912, through the courtesies of the Corn 

 Products Refining Company and the grain inspection department of 

 the New York Produce Exchange, several cargoes of corn from Ar- 

 gentina were examined at the time of discharge at the port of New 

 York. The average results of mechanical analyses on 157 samples 

 from four of the cargoes, representing a total of 638,000 bushels, are 

 contained in Table 11. The data shown in this table represents new 

 corn of the crop of 1912. 



TABLE NO. 11 

 ♦SHOWING AMOUNT OF MOISTURE IN ARGENTINA CORN. 



Average moisture content of four cargoes, 15.10 per cent. 

 From Table 11 it will be seen that the average moisture content 

 of the total 638,000 bushels was 15.1 per cent, the weight per bushel 

 more than 60 pounds, the percentage of sound corn 90.5 and the dirt, 

 chaff, cob, etc., approximately one-sixth of one per cent. 



During the months of December, 1913 and January, 1914, samples 

 to the number of 591 were secured from 16 different cargoes, of Ar- 

 gentina corn as discharged at New York and at Gulf ports. The aver- 

 age moisture content of these samples (old corn of the 1913 crop) was 

 13.7 per cent, or 6.6 per cent less than the average moisture content of 

 corn shipped from country stations in central Illinois during Decem- 

 ber, 1913, and January, 1914, the latter being new corn of the 1913 

 crop. From the standpoint of moisture content alone this represents 

 a difference in value of approximately 5f cents per bushel, based on a 

 New York price of about 70 cents per bushel, not giving consideration 

 to the increased danger of deterioration of high moisture corn. While 

 the average moisture content of the Argentina corn is low, a consider- 



*Agricultural Outlook, March 18, 1914. 



