Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1911 — The First Bread. [ARTICLE]

The First Bread.

The “staff of life” was by no means the first ltdm on men’s bill of fare. For we know not how many ages human beings lived entirely without bread or anything approaching it in character. The first men were hunters and lived mostly on the flesh of the creatures they killed in the chase. The * pastoral stage, which followed the hunter period, supplied milk along with the flesh of the domestic aninp.als, and bread was practically unknown until men had settled down to agriculture. The Chinese emperor Ching Noung is said to have been the first to teach men the art of husbandry and the method of making bread from wheat about 4,000 year* before Christ