Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 141, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1919 — EVAPORATION TEST [ARTICLE]

EVAPORATION TEST

A floating meteorological station at Gatlm laß* coasts of a raft carrying an apparatus for measuring evaporation, an anemometer recording wind variations, and a rain gauge. The evaporation terest. The apparatus Is simply a copper vessel four feet in diameter, wfcieh Is kept filled with water, and abowa by tAe amount pf water added

at Intervals how much of the liquid passes Into the air. This amount reaches four inches per month during the eight months of the wet season, and seven inches per month in the four dry months. The air W very humid from the frequent rains, which come nearly every day even In the so-called “dry" season, but the l surprisingly high evaporation is explained

by the strong winds eontindaliy blowing. It is noted that even the Salton sea, with arid desert surroundings, has only about the same evaporation.