Show STILL GROW ANCIENT GRAIN staff OF 0 life made use of by cave dwellers Is I 1 cultivated today in switzerland how old Is bread disgruntled boarders may have theories upon the age ot of the particular bread served to them but that la is beside the question so long as records of civilized man go back bread has been the staff of life it Is somewhere in the hi history story of prehistoric man that man first learned to grind his grain make dough and bake it on hot stones in the time of 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 stona stone age progressives progress ives bad 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 the lake dwellers dellers lived these are the bla ble mottu still grown in la gruyere and the bouette de lausanne the first of these came from the Caucus us but no one ven yen turea tures to guess as to bow how the lake dwellers came to hare have it it many mills have been found suited to make a coarse meal of the grain and even fragments of the bread bare have been kept in the clay vessels that es as fracture I 1 t it Is due to the lake dwellers custom of building their houses on an piles that we know so much about them the mud beneath their huts buts made an excellent trap to preserve things tor for the modem modern scientist |