Show egyptian monarch was first wheat dictator the first recorded wheat dictator was monarch of egypt who apparently considered it hla most worthy claim to fame having 1 I was lord and overseer of southern grain I 1 engraved on his tomb A eludy on food control tor forty six centuries was made by mary G lacy librarian of the united states department of agriculture and this Is the most an dent deed of price fixing which she unearthed from the musty tomes the story of the pharaoh aal his treasurer joseph who ran the first recorded wheat corner Is known to all bible readers but he was la 1700 D 0 centuries later than genku the egyptian method of control waa by the monarch owning all the land similar to the government ownership in the soviet union today china as early as 1122 B 0 had a system of crop and price control chiefly concerned with rice the government bought the surplus after inspecting each field and deciding how much each farmer might keep it bought at a normal price in surplus years and sold at the same price in short years protecting the farmer in one and th consumer in the other |