24 BULLETIN 215, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
SHIPMENT AND STORAGE. 
Half of each lot was shipped to Savannah and half to New Orleans, 
the analyses being made from month to month in the Government 
laboratories located in these cities. Each of the three cars destined 
for each city contained two parallel lots — that is to say, two half lots 
of whole-kernel meal, and two of cream meal, representing two de- 
grees of dryness. Care was taken not to allow the two kinds of meal, 
or meal of the same kind with extreme moisture content, to come in 
contact either in the car or the storage warehouse, also to so bury the 
bags for analysis in the piles that they should be surrounded by bags 
of the same lot on all sides. The storage warehouse at Savannah was 
similar to that used in the preceding experiment, while that at New 
Orleans was a large, modern structure of several stories, dimly lighted 
but quite well ventilated. 
ANALYSES AND TESTS OF THE STORED MEAL. 
The analyses shown in Table 12 are the most instructive of all those 
given in this bulletin and show conclusively the superior keeping 
qualities of degerminated meal. 
Moisture. — The lots with high moisture, i. e., A, B, and C, regard- 
less of the kind of meal, lost weight during storage, while the drier 
lots, D, E, and F, in most instances gained. In cases where the meal 
heated the loss in weight was not only considerable but noticeably 
greater than the loss in moisture, indicating that carbon dioxid was 
given off in appreciable amount. 
Acidity. — The whole-kernel meal, even when dried to less than 11 
per cent of moisture, became sufficiently acid to exceed the limit of 
30 in from four to eight weeks and finally reached from two to over 
three times that limit. On the other hand, the degerminated meal 
gained slowly in acidity, the limit being exceeded in sixteen weeks 
only in lot B stored at New Orleans. The highest acidity that was 
reached in the degerminated meal of lots C, D, E, and F, which con- 
tained 15.72 to 11.26 per cent of moisture at the outset, was 30.1 and 
that only after 28 weeks' storage. 
