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To recapitulate: We can produce sugar on our farms and 

 in our town and citj'' back lots by keeping bees. We are 

 advised by the United States Food Administration to keep a 

 pig to help a starving world. It may look as if I were prompted 

 by selfish motives when I say that the same money invested 

 in bees w^ill actually go further. A pig pen in a town is often 

 and generally unsanitary. It is a breeder of flies and disease. 

 A few hives of bees in every back lot and every farm are not 

 only not objectionable from a sanitary point of view, but will 

 actually save millions of dollars in sweets that are now going 

 to waste in the fields because there are no bees to gather them. 

 Dr. E. F. Phillips, bee expert in the Department of Agriculture, 

 Washington, District of Columbia, says that at least ten times 

 as much honey could be secured, where there are no bees, as 

 there is now. In most localities there are few or no bees. It 

 is our duty to supply sweets, and honey and fruit sugars are 

 the most w^holesome of them all. 



