Show wheat older than history wheat belongs to the wholly distinct botanical family of the grasses its ancestral home Is 15 unknown but so tar far as early narratives possess evidential value there seems some reason to credit its place of origin to western asia wheat is older than the history of cf the man who has sown it from the beginning of the farmers art the file earliest memorials record wheat as already under cultivation many races believed it the gift of the gods the misconception as to the origin of this cereal suggested in the question may have been based upon a faulty recollection of a theory once proposed namely that wheat was a cultivation derivative of the wild ova turn tum a grass of the levant this grass was put under selective ion con for a score of years and it re spondee to the effort in a consider able degree e it developed into a liet bet ter grass but grass it remained it 51 did did not become wheat |