ACIDITY IN" DETERMINING SOUNDNESS OF CORN. 
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Figure 11 shows the direct and the proportional increase in the 
degree of acidity with the decrease in percentage of germination of 
samples taken from a car of corn which was shipped from Decatur, 
111., to Baltimore, Md., and allowed to stand on the track in Baltimore 
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In figure 13 reference is again made to a car of corn shipped from 
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more the corn contained an average moisture percentage of 18.60. 
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Fig. 12.— Graphic comparison of the average condition of a 
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port compared with its average condition at the time of 
discharge at a European port, showing the effect of tem- 
perature through ocean transportation on various factors 
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germination of a car of corn which was left on the railway track through advancing stages of 
deterioration. 
increase rapidly, and with the increase in temperature there was a 
proportional increase in degree of acidity and a corresponding 
decrease in the percentage of germination. 
Figure 14 shows the relation of the degree of acidity to the condi- 
tion of corn before and after a storage experiment in a large elevator 
