WHEN IT RAINS ONE INCH 



Very few persons— even those who are 

 well informed on most matters— know how 

 much an inch of rain is. 



The average man or woman probably ^as 

 an idea that an inch is a mere trifle on 

 nature's part. This is entirely wrong. In 

 reality it is a good big rainfall— more than 

 falls in most places in an average weelc. 



A rainfall of one inch means literally that 

 the amoimt of water descending in a par- 

 ticular shower w.ould cover the surrounding 

 territory to a depth of one inch, providing 

 it did not run away or soak into the 

 ground. 



An inch of rain coming down on a sin- 

 gle acre of land would fill more than six 

 hundred barrels of forty-flve gallons ca- 

 pacity each. This amount of water would 

 weigh more than 110 tons, or nearly a quar- 

 ter q£ a mUlion f ounds. [Pearson's 



