Show AND THE B by the C institution D C the ancien pyramid building buil din va ia a of middle america were agrical jurists so are their descendants to day no one knows when the pro geni toPs of these people turned from the nomadic life of the hunter to the more inore settled stabilized life that seta sets in when cultivation of the cereal grasses Is begun certain it Is how ever that long before the beginning of the christian era probably sev eral centuries before the forerun flers ners of the maya gave up the chase and turned tor for a dependable food supply to cultivation of the soil no bill intel chinse betheen neu an ani I 1 old A oi ia when the spaniards first contact ed the maya they found among the food plants which the people culli bated beans of several varieties squashes squash ea of many kinds sweet pota toes generally baked in ashes and eaten without seasoning cacha beans the source of chocolate also used as a medium of exchange cas sava save roots of both the sweet and bit ler ter varieties chill peppers and the most important of all maize indian corn besides these cultivated plants the people turned to good account many fruits and plants they grew tob tobacco teco tor for smoking and from hen equen fiber coarse cloth was woven the cotton plant was widely known and weaving in it had advanced to a high development among the maya centuries before the advent of the spaniards in view of lack of evidence to the contrary cont iary the probability Is gener aly ally accepted that no interchange of cultivated food plants took place be tween europe and america prior to the time of columbus indeed it is asserted by investigators of the sub eject that up to about A D 1500 there was not a single basic food plant hor nor a single domesticated animal ex capt the dog that was common to eastern and western hemispheres lloyd jenkins former deltan now living in provo waa a guest of vard tucker and family this week lloyd transferred from fillmore to provo last tall fall and likes it very much frank beckwith notary public |