Show ss s r s l r CREDIT IS DUE GIVEN TOO s w. w VOLCANIC DUST Reporter Report Report- The Barbados Agricultural er en has sent to this office a e specimen of the volcanic dust which fell on OIli that Island on May May and Borne from St St. Vincent it say says Inthe in inthe inthe the upper str strata t of of th the air and there suspended thi this stuff obscured red the sunlight sun stun light and the produced d the ph phenomenon of darkness In In color and consistency It resembles Portland cement cement It quotes the following following- description of the dust by W W. G G. Freeman of of the loc local l Department Department Department Depart Depart- ment of 01 Agriculture From the calculated results result of a series of 01 observations nia made in Strath Strath- clyde on the fall of f volcanic ash h it would seem that at a low estimate estimate about thirteen ounces fell per square square foot between the hours of 5 S p. p m. m on Wednesday and end 5 a. a m m. on Thursday This perhaps may not appear a large amount but look at It from front another point of 01 view Thirteen ounces per square foot means ounces per per ncr square yard Vir or oro to express it Itin In familiar familiar familiar fa fa- fa- fa terms in an agricultural com com- no less than tons toni per per acre Leaving for the while minor units su such h as acres acres we find th that t 1 tons of volcanic ash were rained on to every square mile of this Island duning durIng during dur dun ing the last twelve hours of darkness Supposing sing the fall fail to have been approximatelY approximately approximately ap ap- ap- ap proximately equal in depth over the whole Island the almost incredible amount of or tons of solid matter was added to Barbados last night New York Tribune |