8 
AMERICAN EXPORT CORN ( MAIZE ) IN EUROPE. 
AMERICAN COEN CERTIFICATED AS " NO. 2 CORN," " NO. 2 CORN, SAIL 
GRADE," OR "PRIME (SAIL) MIXED CORN," EXAMINED IN EUROPE 
FROM NOVEMBER, 1906, TO MAY, 1907, INCLUSIVE. 
Tabic II shows in detail the results of the personal examination 
of eighty-eight cargoes of corn on their arrival during the months 
from November, 1906, to May, 1907, inclusive, at the principal 
European grain-receiving ports. The eighty-eight cargoes contained 
an aggregate of 0,598,351 bushels, of which quantity 1,120,900 bush- 
els, or 17 per cent, were found to be in a heating or hot condition. 
The cargoes were loaded at the different Atlantic and Gulf ports in 
the United States on various dates from October 17, 1906, to May 9, 
1907. The corn in forty-five of the cargoes arrived cool throughout. 
The corn in forty-three of the cargoes was found to be more or less 
heating or hot, 100 per cent heating or hot being reached in five car- 
goes aggregating 254,073 bushels. 
The length of time that the corn was in the vessels varied from 14 
to 58 days. All of the corn which was in the vessels under 16 days 
arrived cool. One of the cargoes examined was en route 58 day-, 
with 60,000 bushels of corn containing 14.4 per cent of moisture, but 
sustained no damage. Another cargo carrying 17,142 bushels of 
corn containing 16.7 per cent of moisture was en route 56 days and 
24.5 per cent of the cargo was found to be heating or hot on arrival- 
The moisture content of the cool corn examined on arrival during 
the period varied from 12 to 20.6 per cent, an average of 17.1 per 
cent. Approximately 2,748,000 bushels, or 50.2 per cent, of the cool 
corn- contained moisture exceeding 18 per cent. The dirt and for- 
eign material, with one exception, varied from 0.2 of 1 per cent to 
4.5 per cent. In one cargo, the above exception, one sample analyzed 
62.5 per cent of dirt and foreign matter but was representative only 
of a considerable quantity of corn that was located just under one of 
the hatches of one of the ships. 
Table II. — American corn certificated as "No. 2 Corn," "No. 2 Corn, Sail Grade," 
or" Prime (Sail) Mixed Corn" examined in Europe from November, 1906, to May, 1907, 
inclusive, showing the quantity found heating or hot, etc. 
6 
to 
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Quantity 
examined. 
Quantity found heat- 
ing or hot. 
Holds 
occu- 
pied. 
Date of 
loading. 
Days 
in 
boat. 
Dirt and 
foreign 
matter. 
Moisture 
in cool 
corn. a 
Moisture 
in heat- 
ing corn. 
No. 
101 
Bushels. 
94, 281 
32, 214 
16,270 
34,285 
21,400 
42, 857 
38,920 
09. 2SS 
154, 285 
85,542 
35, 340 
Bushels. 











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1 
2 
2 
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4 
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1906. 
Oct. 17 
Oct. 18 
6 Oct. 19 
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b Nov. 1 
b Nov. 7 
Nov. 12 
b Nov. 14 
b Nov. 22 
b Nov. 21 
No. 
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0.7 
.6 
1.6 
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4.5 
.7 
.6 
.5 
.5 
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Per cent. 
12.2 
12.6 
12.3 
12.5 
12.7 
14.1 
12.4 
12.0 
12.4 
14.4 
14.8 
Per cent. 
102 
103 
104 
105 
106 
107 
108 
109 
110 
111 
« Except where the entire cargo was heating or hot. 
b Date of loading given is the sailing date. 
c Days from sailing to discharge. 
[Cir. 55] 
