CARRYING QUALITIES OF EXPORT CORN. 93 
The corn in holds 
1 and 2 showed prac- 
tically no change 
durmg the voyage 
and was discharged 
in sound condition. 
The temperature rec- 
ordsfor the thermom- 
eters located in the 
various positions i 
these holds are illus- 
trated in figures 65 
and 66. 
Hold 3 had one 
eargo hold between 
it and the boiler 
room, and, although 
the corn had been 
artificially dried be- 
fore loading and there 
was no opportunity 
for the heat from the 
boiler to penetrate 
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Fic. 66.—Hold 2: Temperature records of electrical resistance ther- 
mometers, location of the thermometers in the hold, and samples 
secured at Liverpool. Heavy shading represents heat-damaged 
corn. (Cargo No. 9.) 
this hold, still some 
of the corn became 
hot and damaged dur- 
ing the voyage. It 
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will be noted from 
Table 42 that some of 
the samples secured 
at the time of loading 
tested the highest in 
acidity (26.6 c. c.) of 
any samples in the 
cargo that were se- 
cured at that time, 
showing that at least 
some of the corn in 
this hold had under- 
gone considerable de- 
terioration before it 
was loaded into the 
hold and was in a dan- 
Fic. 67.—Hold 3: Temperature records of electrical resistance ther- 2{@TOUS condition for 
mometers, location of the thermometers in the hold, and samples 
secured at Liverpool. Heavy shading represents heat-damaged 
corn. (Cargo No. 9.) 
export, with an aver- 
age moisture content 
