CARRYING QUALITIES OF EXPORT CORN. 65 
it was discharged. It will be noted that the temperature increased 
from 40° to 100° F. during the first 10 days of the ocean voyage. 
Thermometer 17, which was also located in the ‘‘feeder,”’ at about 
the same height as thermometer 18, but next to the bulkhead separ- 
ating the corn from the ventilated coal bunker, indicated a much 
slower increase in temperature. On April 8, 11 days after sailing, 
thermometer 18 in- 
dicated a temperature 
of 120° F.; on April 15 
the temperature had 120 
increased to 144° F. $0 
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cated in the portside § 
a little over half- 37% 
way down from the 
surface of the corn, «6 
indicated an increase = {= 
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the first 10 days and 7 2 ugereee ri 
63° F. during the last ; Con Be ae 
11 daysof the voyage, § S S 8 : 
a total of 93° F. for : ae bee ds 
the whole voyage. 
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Temperature records 
for thermometers 21 
and 22, located a few 
feet from the bottom 
of the hold, show that 
there was but little 
change in tempera- 
ture in these places of 
stowage. Samples 
Nos. 18, 20, and 22, 
: Fig, 41.—Hold 3: Temperature records of electrical resistance thermom- 
which WML attached eters, location of the thermometers in the hold, and samples secured 
to thermometers of at Rotterdam. Heavy shadingrepresents heat-damaged corn. (Cargo 
the same numbers, ***? 
had temperatures of 140°, 130,° and 44° F., when discharged, and 
tested 59.5, 56.2, and 22.8 c. c. in acidity. Samples Nos. 18 and 
20 had lost all vitality, but sample No. 22 germinated 55 per cent. 
Only one sample in this hold at the time of discharge tested under 
33 c. c. in acidity, 
Hold 4 was one deck higher than holds 1 and 5. It was located 
‘Just aft of the engine room and had a shaft tunnel in the bottom 
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