84 BULLETIN 764, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
in the hold. Thermometer 29, which was located opposite the 
| engine-room bulk- — 
wisisizisis2022 head,nearthesurface 
of the corn, did not 
show as high a tem- 
perature during the 
voyage or at the time 
the corn was dis- 
charged as thermom- 
eter 37, which was lo- 
cated next to the en- 
gine-room bulkhead 
halfway down in the 
TEMPERATURE °F 
: § 3 s _ hold; thisisaccount- 
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g 3s Ph fete ed for by the fact — 
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Oe gro is Sa that thermometer 29 
eas \ = i7e sar 419 was inadvertently 
2i 6 204 34——--H32 278 
Sa ASOT SRN tn placed several feet 
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23 39 182 : z = —-- 2 226 26 22 back from the bulk- 
head. However, 
nerves) __ 53 186 32 26 sample No. 30, which 
was taken from the 
corn the same height 
in the hold as sample 
No. 29, but in con- 
tact with the upper 
part of the engine- 
room bulkhead, 
Fic. 57.—Hold 3: Temperature records of electrical resistance ther- shows a temperature 
mometers, location of the thermometers in the hold, and samples of 145° F, Table 39 
secured at Rotterdam. Heavy shading represents heat-damaged shows that the corm 
oo ee ee located next to the 
upper part of the engine-room bulkhead increased 113° F. in tempera- 
ture and 26.2 c. c. in ae 2 
acidity, and decreased os29'1 2345 6789 Oi 21S 14'S 16 17 18 19 2021 22 
7.5 pounds in test 
weight per bushel, 30 , 
per cent in germina- 
tion, and 87.5 per cent 
in sound kernels. 
Thisis in contrast with = 
an increase of only feather lee 
5 i OCEAN VOVAGE. 
1° F. in temperature 
: : Fig. 58.—Temperature records of the thermometer located from the 
and 0.6 c. c. lm acid- surface to the bottom of the corn near thecenterof hold 3. (Cargo 
ity, and a decrease of No.8.) 
only 0.25 pound in test weight per bushel, 20 per cent in germina- 
TEMPERATURE 
