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A.MKliK AN EXPORT CORN ( MAIZE ) IN EUROPE. 
Table II. — American corn certificated as "No. 2 Corn," "No.t Corn, Sail Grade," or 
I'linu [Sail) Mixed Corn" examined in Europe from November, 1900. to May, 1907, 
inclusive, showing the quantity found heating or hot, etc. — Continued. 
1 
a 
a 
Quantity 
examined. 
Quantity found 
heating or hot. 
Holds 
occu- 
pied. 
loading. 
Days 
in 
boat. 
Dirt and 
foreign 
matter. 
Moisture 
m cool 
corn. o 
Moisture 
in heating 
corn. 
No. 
173 
Bushels. 
30, 739 
81,427 
85,713 
102, 8.% 
145,713 
111,427 
30,000 
34,284 
78,542 
103,357 
59,999 
115,711 
17,142 
182,143 
110,322 
102,932 
Bushels. 



* (Slight.) 

<-4,000 
c 30, 000 
b (Slight.) 
3,375 
171,023 
c 42, 857 
7, 050 
09,000 
d 100, 608 
C 55, 368 
c 22, 700 
Per cent. 
0.0 
.0 
No. 
2 
4 
1907. 
Apr. 1 
Apr. 2 
Apr. 4 
Apr. 10 
Apr. 11 
Apr. 12 
Apr. 13 
Apr. 15 
Apr. 17 
Apr. 24 
Apr. 29 
Apr. 30 
Apr. 30 
May 4 
May 8 
t May 9 
No. 
29 
21 
20 
26 
20 
24 
24 
29 
21 
28 
16 
25 
22 
19 
21 
/22 
Per cent. 
2.1 
.4 
.5 
2.8 
4.3 
3.6 
2.3 
.5 
2.7 
1.4 
1.5 
2.0 
3.4 
2.9 
2.7 
3.6 
Per cent. 
14.2 
18.7 
1.5. 1 
1.5. .5 
15.8 
16.2 
17.7 
19.2 
17.6 
18.3 
17.9 
14.3 
16.9 
17.3 
17.3 
17.0 
Per (tni. 
174 
17". 
.0 3 
.0 3 
.0 4 
17i. 
177 
ITS 
3. 6 
100.0 
.0 
4.3 
68. : 
71.4 
8.1 
52.5 
55.3 
.50.2 
22. I 
4 
1 
2 
3 
2 
2 
4 
1 
4 
2 
4 
179 
180 
181 
182 
183 
19.8 
184 
185 
186 
187 
188 
22. 3 
19.2 
6,598,351 
1,120,900 17.0 , 226 
a Except when entire cargo was heating or hot. 
Principally in upper portions of grain in all holds. 
c In all places of stowage. 
d General, but worse near engine and boiler room bulkheads. 
« Date of loading given is the sailing date. 
/ Days from sailing to discharge. 
Figures 2 and 3 illustrate the data contained in Table II and cor- 
roborate figure 1 in showing the tendency in corn containing high 
percentages of moisture to heat and "go out of condition" in ocean 
transit. 
—JZ 
CARGO A/L/MSEff. 
Fig. 2. — Diagram showing in chronological order the cargo number of each shipment, the months during 
which shipments were made, the percentages of moisture in the corn, and the percentages of corn found 
damaged in each cargo on arrival in Europe during the fore part of the season of 1906-7. 
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