Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1911 — Corn and Water. [ARTICLE]

Corn and Water.

To those engaged in the handling of grain the natural shrinkage of shelled corn while In storage and in transit is a matter of prime importance and often a source of dispute because of shortage reported at time of receipt at warehouse and a further loss at date of final sale. In order to determine the amount of shrinkage or .loss of weight occurring in corn the department of agriculture has conducted an experiment with 500 bushels of shelled com. At the time of storage the moisture content was 18.8 per cent and at close of the test 14.7 per cent, or a loss of 4.1 per cent The weight per bushel bad decreased from 54.7 pounds to 50 pounds, and the total loss of weight was 1,970 pounds, or slightly more than 7 per cent