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embedded in a sun-dried brick from one of the Egyptian 
_ Pyramids believed to be over five thousand years old. Cer- 
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show that wheat, barley, oats, and rye were in use among the 
ruder peoples of Europe, centuries before the Christian Era. 
The Chinese have record of the cultivation of rice in their 
country more than four thousand years ago. Until recent 
