8 BULLETIN 764, U. §. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
lots of artificially dried corn, the natural ‘‘Central”’ being stowed in 
the upper part of the hold directly un- 
der the forward hatch, and separated 
and atarpaulin. The dried “A” corn 
was the upper portion of the dried corn 
under the two forward, hatches of hold 
4, and the dried “‘B” corn filled the 
remainder of the hold. 
BALLAST 
CONDITION OF THE CORN AS LOADED. 
The ranges in the more important 
factors, showing the quality and con- 
dition of the four lots of corn as loaded 
and as discharged, are shown by holds 
in Table 1, while the detailed analyses 
of the samples taken from each lot of 
corn are shown in Table 2. From 
these two tables it will be seen that 
there was a marked difference in the 
quality and condition of the four lots 
of corn at the time of loading, each lot 
considered separately, however, be- 
ing quite uniform throughout. The 
average condition of each of the four 
lots of corn as loaded is shown in Ta- 
ble 3. Asseen in Table 3, the natural 
‘Central’? corn contained the most 
moisture, the average being 18.7 per 
cent. The natural ‘‘Southwestern’”’ 
and the dried ‘‘A”’ corn were both rela- 
tively low in moisture content, the 
averages for these being 14.7 per cent 
and 14.9-per cent, respectively, while 
the dried ‘‘B” corn averaged 16.3 per 
cent. The average germination was 
the highest in the natural ‘‘Southwest- 
ern”’ corn, 84 per cent, and the low- 
est in the dried ‘‘B” corn, 32 per cent. 
The averages for the natural ‘‘Cen- 
tral’’ and the dried ‘‘A’’corn were 51 
per cent and 50 per cent, respec- 
tively. The dried ‘‘B”’ corn con- 
tained the highest degree of acidity, the 
average being 27.5 c. c., and the dried ‘‘A”’ corn contamed the 
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Fig. 1.—Diagram showing the arrangement of the steamship and the stowage of the four lots of corn in the holds. 
from the dried corn by wooden staves 
