WHEAT IS A GRASS 
will not survive in the wild state. It has had the advan¬ 
tage of the care of man so long that it can no longer live 
without it. 
The best authorities are inclined to the belief that 
wheat originated in what is now Macedonia and was 
taken from there to ancient Egypt and Canaan. It grew 
in importance when man became so ingenious as to grind 
it by rolling one stone against another. When the patient 
bullock was hitched to a sweep that furnished power for 
a mill, it again forged ahead. Windmills and waterwheels 
helped it toward popularity, though, through the dark 
ages, the milling and the bread that resulted was so poor 
that it came to be known as the black bread period. Mod¬ 
ern milling has developed a flour from wheat which is so 
far superior to that from any other source that wheat has 
become the chief bread material of all peoples whose 
prosperity is such that they can afford it. 
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