18 AMERICAN EXPORT COBS (MAIZE) IN EUROPE. 
the certificates of inspection accompanying these shipments to indi- 
cate that the corn had been artificially dried. During the season 
1907-N, 1,209,075 bushels of such corn were examined on arrival 
and 54,314 bushels, or 4.1 per cent, were found to he in a heating 
condition. 
None of this so-called "dried" corn which arrived cool showed a 
moisture content of less than 15.2 per cent, while some of the cool 
corn contained as high as 19.4 per cent of moisture, and the corn 
found heating in the various cargoes was quite evenly distributed 
from that containing the lowest to that containing the highest per- 
centage of moisture, showing that the partial drying of corn con- 
taining liigh percentages of moisture so disturbs conditions as to 
cause it to be generally unsafe for ocean shipment. 
THE GRADES OF " STEAMER " AND " NO. 3 CORN." 
Aside from the better grades of corn heretofore considered consid- 
erable quantities of the lower grades of "Steamer" and "No. 3 
Corn" were examined, but the data relating thereto are not included 
in the tables or diagrams. 
Of this corn 51,428 bushels in two cargoes, winch were loaded and 
shipped in January and February, 1908, and the voyages of which 
consumed 17 and 20 days, respectively, showed a moisture content 
ranging from 19.2 to 22.5 per cent, an average of 19.8 per cent. 
The corn was stowed in holds free and away from boiler or engine 
room heat, and no heating or hot corn was found in either cargo. 
HEAT-DAMAGED CORN ARTIFICIALLY DRIED. 
Several shipments or parcels, amounting in all to 79,847 bushels of 
badly discolored heat-damaged corn, sometimes known as "ma- 
hogany," which had been artificially dried before shipping, were also 
examined in Europe. These shipments bore certificates as "rejected 
corn," "dried," and the data relating thereto are not included in 
the tables and diagrams. The moisture content of this corn varied 
from 13.2 to 17.4 per cent. Such corn is used almost entirely for 
distilling purposes on the continent of Europe. 
EXPORT CARGOES OF WHEAT. 
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Several cargoes of wheat which were exported from the Atlantic 
and Gulf ports of the United States were also examined on arrival in 
Europe, and many complaints, some of which were verified, accom- 
panied by samples and data, were submitted to the writers. These 
complaints were largely centered about shipments of hard winter 
wheat from the Gulf ports, which were, in some cases, received in 
Europe in a badly heating and damaged condition, due to an excess 
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