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BULLETIN 102, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table Till. — Samples representing corn on (he farm, at country shipping points, at 
terminal markets, and at foreign ports, showing the increase in degree of acidity in direct 
proportion to the decrease in percentage of germination. 
Source of samples. 
Item of comparison. 
Samples 
which showed a range in the percentage 
of germinat ion from — 
to 20 21 to 40 
41 to 60 
61 to SO SI to 100 
Ind ividual ears from farm 
\ Number of samples 
o 
2 
20.6 
60 
IS. 9 
96S 
19.6 
76 
25. 5 
9 
IS. 2 
S6 
19.3 
1,830 
19.3 
74 
21.5 
131 
cribs. 
\Average acidity c.< . 
29.9 
2S 
21.1 
657 
21. S 
129 
25. 5 
Country elevator receipts 
and shipments. 
Terminal market receipts. 
Corn discharged at for- 
eign ports. 
(Number of samples 
\Average acidity c.c. 
(Number of samples 
\ Average acidity c. c. . 
(Number of samples 
\ Average acidil y c.c. 
29.8 
598 
26.6 
167 
39.9 
21 
19.6 
1,058 
IS. 6 
9 
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Fig. 11.— Curves showing the increase in degree of acidity and the decrease in percentage of germi- 
nation through advancing stages of deterioration in a car of corn. 
wet and reaches advanced stages of deterioration while the greater 
part of the corn in the car remains sound and in good condition. 
Table IX shows the results of acidity and germination tests made 
on samples taken from both the good and bad parts of such cars. 
Table IX.- — Comparison of the average acidity and the average germination of corn 
sampled in the good and the bad parts of cars received at a terminal market. 1 
Source of samples. 
Average 
acidity. 
Average 
germina- 
tion. 
Good part of car 
C. e, P(T cent. 
IS. 6 | 67.7 
Bad part of car 
23.4 49.0 
These results represent an average of 73 cars. 
