Show STILL GROW ANCIENT GRAIN staff of life made use of by cave dwellers Is cultivated today in switzerland how flow old Is bread disgruntled boarders may have theories upon the age of the particular bread served to them but that Is beside the question so long as records of civilized man inan go back bread has been the staff of life it Is somewhere in the history of prehistoric man that man first learned to grind his grain make dough and bake it on hot stones in the time of 0 neolithic man when one branch of humanity for defense drove piles in the edges of swiss lakes and built huts on their tops bread was made that much at least Is certain these stone atone age progressives progress ives had learned to reap grain and probably to cultivate it in a rude way they possessed wheat of several varieties barley rye and other kinds curiously enough two of these prehistoric varieties are still cultivated in switzerland not far from where vilere the lake dwellers lived these are tle the lie ble mottu still grown in la gruyere and the bouette de lausanne Lau aanne the first of these camo came from the caucuses Caucus us but no one ventures to guess as aa to how the lake dwellers came to have it I 1 many mills have been found suited to make a coarse meal of the grain and even fragments of 0 the bread have been kept in the clay vessels that escaped fracture it Is due to the lake dwellers custom of building their houses on piles that we know so much about them the mud beneath their huts made an excellent trap to preserve things for the modern scientist |