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BULLETIN 764, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
and the corn stowed 8 feet away from the bulkhead had increased to 
80° F., or an increase of only 18° F., but during the next few days the 
temperature of the corn in the latter position increased very rapidly. 
When the ship arrived at Copenhagen on April 1, the temperatures 
of the corn stowed against the upper, middle, and bottom parts of 
the boiler-room bulkhead, as is shown by the temperature records 
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Fia. 6.—Hold 4: A, temperature records of the electrical resistance 
thermometers; B and C, location of the (1) resistance thermometers 
in the hold; (2) samples secured in Denmark; (3) the damaged corn 
as discharged in Denmark. 
(Cargo No. 1.) 
for thermometers 18, 
24, and 27, were 140°, 
118°, and .75°ais, me] 
spectively, as against 
122°: and. 59°: KH. ter 
the corn stowed 8 feet 
from the bulkhead 
and the same height 
as the upper and 
lower positions (there 
was no record for the 
middle position) as is 
shown by the tem- 
perature records for 
thermometers 22 and 
29. Note that the 
corn near the boiler- 
room bulkhead had 
a higher temperature 
by 18° F. in the upper 
position and by 16° 
F. in the lower posi- 
tion than the corn 
located at the same 
height but 8 feet from 
the bulkhead. 
After the ship was 
docked at Copen- 
hagen, the fires were 
put out under the 
main boilers and the 
effect was quite no- 
ticeable on the corn located near the boiler-room bulkhead. The next 
day, April 2, the temperature of the corn located against the upper part 
of the bulkhead had decreased 5 degrees as against no decrease for the 
corn the same height only 8 feet away, the temperatures for these two 
positions that ioe being 135° and 122° F., respectively. The tempera- 
ture of the corn-against the middle of the bulkhead (thermometer 24), 
about half way to ane bottom, was 102° F., on April 2, a decrease of 16 
