Evening Star Newspaper, January 9, 1927, Page 112

Bl 1ue Hree areat NECESSITIES OF LIFE Foop, CLOTHING AND SHELTER , THE FIRST 1S THE MOST IMPORTANT TO TMANKIND. — = TEN THOUSAND YEARS AGO EVERY MAN WAS OBLIGED TOo RAISE TTHE FoOD FOR HIMSELF AND Hi$ FAMILY . PEOPLE OF PQEHtS'bmc TIMES CAME 710 BE SHEPHERDS AND . HERDSMEN,AND HOW THEY MULTIPLIED RAPIBLY,AND IN TIME THE NATURAL | |PASTURAGE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN SUFFICIENT FOR ALL EobAv, INTHE UNITED STATES, TMANKS TO OUR IMPROVED AGRICLL- TURAL MACHINERY AND MODERN FARMING METHOD THE WORK OF LESS THAM THIRTY PERSONS OUT OF EVERY HUNDRED IS REQUIRED TO PRoPUCE ENOUGHM Foop To SUPPLY THE ENTIRE POPULATION AND STILL HAVE A LARGE SURPLUS TO EXPORT. —* By J. CARROLL MANSFIELD -Bmca MEN FIRST BEGAM TO DOMESTICATE ANIMALS; THEY HAD REAPED THE WILD-GROWING WHEAT AND (BARLEY, BUT HAD BEEN IGNORANT OF PLANTING LAND/SOWING .SOME OF THE WILD amm THEY BEAT OUT FOR THEIR : & . WERE EVER WANBERING FROM «PLACE TO PLACE SEEKING - 'NEW GRAZING GROUNDS FOR . THEIR CATTLE, SHEEP AND i THEIR NEEDS HAPPILY,BEFORE | THIS EXTREMITY WAS REACHED, AGRICULTURE WAS BEGUN, AND THE Foopb PROBLEM SOLVED. ' AGRICULTURE MAY HAVE HAD 1TS BEGINNING INTHE STORING oF FOPDER FOR. THE DOMESTIC ANIMALS DURING THE WINTER. N SMALL PATCHES.EXPERIENCE TAUGHT THEM THAT ‘THE SEED WOULD GROW BETIER IETHE SOIL WAS BROKEN UP, A SHARPSTICK WAS PROBABLY USED IRST FOR THIS PORPOSE ;0 G YT Bome TivE N _.THE DIM PAST, CAME / THE MPDQTANT Dlscovgn\/’a THAT A SEED DROPPED INTO THE GROUND WOULD SPROUT," TAKE ROOT, AND IN A CERTAIN m«\ PROBUCE A PLANT LIKE THAT FROM N » 1wm¢u IT'CAME . PARING THE Soll. WAS Sl.ow, SER R . ARDUOLS WORI, — o umer?,ans HE INVENTION OF THE FIRST mAus LABOR WAS REWARDED . \ LABOR- smme DEVICE - A PLOW THAT flus GRAIN WAS GROUND BETWEEN . HE 500N FouNb THAT 1&«9\% STONES AND THE FLOUR KEPT IN' EARTH ENWARE VESSELS FOR FUFURE USE ! g ‘ THEY HAD No ms-r Buy- mpe TURNED UP A NARROW ‘BREA FURROW, —— HE DEVELOPMENT OF FARMING WROUGHT A - GREAT CHANGE IN THE LIFE OF THESE EARLY PEOPLE., THEY CEASED TO BE WANDERING SHEPHERDS, BUILT THEMSELVES MORE PERMANENT MOMES, AND ADOPTED. A ¢ SETTLED LIEE. “u'TlME, MEN LEARNED TO WEAVE VEGETABLE FIBERS. FROM FLAX THEY MADE FISHING NETS, ROPE, AND A ROUGH CLOTH FOR GARMENTS« ’ AND TILLED THE OUTLYING 'LANDS,\ MEN CONTINUED TO RAISE ANIMALS AND HUNT FOR GAME,BUT AGRICULTURE CAME o BE THEIR. CHIEF OCCUPATION. If You Save This Page Each Week You Will Have a Complete History of Man. S