4 BULLETIN 472, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
of moisture content on the test weight of grain is illustrated in figure 
1, which shows how a large sample of corn, which was allowed to dry 
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Fic. 1.—Diagram showing how the test weight per bushel of corn increases as the 
moisture content of the corn is reduced by natural drying. 
naturally, increased nearly 3 pounds in test weight per bushel as the 
corn dried down from a moisture content of slightly over 19 per cent 
to a moisture content of 10 per cent. 
