\\li BICAN BXP0R1 OOBM ( M UZ1 ) IN 1 UROP1 , •"» 
THE RESULTS OF INVESTIGATIONS. 
BUMMAB1 01 CARGO EXAMINATION. 
The babies and diagrams Bhowing the details of the three seasons' 
work, collectively, sho* thai a total of 15,077,987 bushels of corn, 
n,l of which was certificated as being either "No. 2 Coin." 'No. 
2 Corn, Sail Grade," or "Prime (Sail) Mixed Corn" (grades of simi- 
lar requirements as to quality and condition) al the different exporl 
points on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, and for- 
warded in 17.") steamships, were examined on arrival bI the various 
European grain-receiving ports; Hint, as a resull of careful examina- 
tions and estimates, 1 ,91 1 ,37 I bushels, or 12.7 per cent, of thai total 
quantit) were found on arrival to be in a heating <>r hot condition, 
Borne portions of which were bo badrj damaged a- to be entirely unfit 
for feeding purposes. The percentage of heating and hot corn varied 
in the <lilViT.Mii cargoes and parcels, 100 per cent heating or hoi being 
reached in a total of eighl cases during the whole of the three seasons. 
1 aim \\\ii<>\ OF Mil. TERMS 08ED IN TARLES. 
The columns headed " Date of loading" in the tables, excepl \\ here 
other* ise specified, show the dates Koine on the certificates of inspec- 
tion accompanying the different shipments, and are consequently 
the dates when the loading at the American port was completed. 
The columns headed "Days in boat" represent, in most cases, the 
number of days from the dale of loading to the date the Bamples were 
drawn in Europe ai the time the cargo was being discharged. 
The percentages of Dirt and foreign material" in each case 
include all tin. l\ broken corn particles that would pass through a 
26-gauge 10 by 10 mesh wire sieve, and any other material not corn 
which was found in the samples as drawn. Great care was exercised to 
obtain sample- that would represent the correct average of the dirt 
and foreign matter in the grain being sampled, the percentages given 
being determined 1>\ actual separations and weighings. All of the 
samples drawn from the cargoes were placed immediately in air- 
tight containers in order to guard against any change in their moisture 
content before being tested. 
r ACTORS CONCERNING WHICH WO [NFORMATIOM WAS w AILARLE. 
Some of the factors concerning which no data were available, and 
which no doubl have their own peculiar influence on the condition of 
corn in ocean transit, include whether or not fermentation had started 
in the corn at the time of loading; the temperature of the atmosphere 
and the temperature of the <;raiu at the time of loading; the char- 
acter and condition in all cases of other freight loaded next to or on 
top of the grain; the treatment to which the grain was subjected 
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