Show the antiquity ot the chinese cultivated 2700 years before the beginning of the christian era always considering it as a gift direct from heaven scientific agrical jurists are of the opinion that it waa widely known and cultivated by prehistoric man at the present time it is the principal bread corn of the leading european nations and is fast supplanting the use of maize or indian corn in the american states the egyptians attributed tri buted its origin to isis and the greeks to ceres exchange |