If a grain of.wheat were placed on the first of the 64 squares on a draughts board and the amount doubled for each of the other 63, one million.million tons of wheat wool bo required for the 64tli square. At a 21b. loaf daily it would take the human race. 2700 years, to cat it
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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 100, 1 May 1935, Page 4
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