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Show ception of its Importance in the world's prosperity, pros-perity, health, happiness and progress. It is one of the things that are taken for granted, without the curiosity that prompts study, by a jaded civilization civili-zation that trancelike is interested only In the startlingly new. It excites less interest today than among the primitive people who evolved it slowly from the grasses they cultivated. Yet the grain of wheat is the principal opening through which, into our three-dimensional world, flows the mysterious current of life. Keeps You Alive I - VVHEAT. of the variety that was cultivated 15,000 years ago, is exhibited under glass cases at the Field museum, Chicago. It is the most Important food ever discovered by man so important that wheat bread is known in many languages as the staff of life. Wherever man . bas carried his civilization on a large scale he has had to carry cultivation of wheat with him. In 1520 the Spaniards brought overseas the seed that started the giant American wheat-growing industry. City folks give little thought to wheat, yet all eat it. Your body, through which your spirit manifests itself in this three-dimensional world, is largely a transformation of wheat. To millions of farmers the wheat seed is the key to livelihood. This year they will raise about seven bustels for every person in the United States. Economists tell you that wheat is the chief regulator of our whole system of economics from prices to health. The crash in wheat prices since the collapse of the war boom has illustrated how fickle and unstable is our economic system. It has been so, ill through history. In May, 1867, wheat hit a high mark of (2.11 a bushel in the cash market at Chicago. In May, 1870, the highest reached was 92 cents a bushel. From this crash farmers learn that current price problems are nothing new, but merely a repetition of the endless series of up-and-down cycles. You could devote a whole lifetime to . the study of wheat, and still have only a faint con-1 |