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Show STILL GROW ANCIENT GRAIN Staff 0' Life Made Use of by Cave Dwellers Is Cultivated Today In Switzerland. How old Is broad? Disgruntled boarders may havo theories upon the ago of tho particular hreud served to them, but that Is bcsldo tho question. So long as records of civilized man go hack bread has been the stuff of llfo. It Ib Bomowhoro In tho history of prehistoric man that man first leurned to grind his grain, inako dough and hako It on hat stones. In the timo of neollthla man, whon one branch ot humanity for defeiuo drove piles In tho edges of Swiss laket and built huts on their tops, bread was made. That much at least la certain, These stone age progressives bad learned to reap grain nnd probably to cultivate It In a rude way They possessed pos-sessed wheat ot several varieties, barley, bar-ley, rye and other kinds Curiously enough, two of these prehlstorlo varieties varie-ties are ttlll cultivated In Switzerland not far from where the lake dwellers lived These are the ble mottu, etlll grown In La Qruyere, and the nouette d I.nusnnne. The first of these camo ' B from tho Cnucusus, but no ono von- IN tures to guess as to how the lako ' n dwellers camo to have It. .fl Many mills havo boen found suited i M to mnke u conrse meal of tho grain, ( fl and ovon fragments of th" broad hnvo S fl been kopt In tho clay vessels that es- 'm caped fracture. It is due to the lako dwellers' cus- . torn of building their houses on piles k that wo know so much about them. f Tho mud bonenth their huts mado nn f, excellent trap to preserve things for tho modern scientist. r |