42 Nebraska Agricultural Exp. Station Research Bul. 16 
TEMPERATURE RANGE 0° TO —5° F. 
The notes on the corn subjected to a temperature of 0° 
to — 5° F. are compiled in Table 9. It will be observed here 
that the injury resulting from exposure to this temperature 
occurred in those ears having a moisture content greater than 
16 per cent. Below that, little or no injury resulted. The 
transition seems to have occurred between 20 and 18 per cent. 
Loss of viability or power of germination occurred here with 
a slightly smaller percentage of moisture than at the tempera- 
ture of 8° to 4° F. Ice crystals were found in the kernels from 
a few ears in which the moisture content was as low as 20 per 
cent. However, little or no loss of viability occurred in ears 
containing 16 per cent or less of moisture. 
