Elements of biology; a practical Elements of biology; a practical text-book correlating botany, zoology, and human physiology elementsofbiolog00hunt Year: [c1907] FRUITS 63 fixed place for habitation. The cultivation of grains and cereals gave them a store of food which could be used at times when other food was scarce. The word cereal (derived from Ceres, the Roman Goddess of Agriculture) shows the importance of this crop to Roman civilization. From earliest times the growing of grain and the progress of civilization have gone hand in hand. As nations have advanced in power, their dependence
Elements of biology; a practical Elements of biology; a practical text-book correlating botany, zoology, and human physiology elementsofbiolog00hunt Year: [c1907] FRUITS 63 fixed place for habitation. The cultivation of grains and cereals gave them a store of food which could be used at times when other food was scarce. The word cereal (derived from Ceres, the Roman Goddess of Agriculture) shows the importance of this crop to Roman civilization. From earliest times the growing of grain and the progress of civilization have gone hand in hand. As nations have advanced in power, their dependence upon the cereal crops has been greater and greater. ' Indian corn,' says John Fiske, in The Discovery of America, ' has played a most important part in the discovery of the New World. It could be -^^ / ^ i '%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%. WHEAT \ /60 to 640 bushels per sauare mile '\ over 640 » « „ .
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