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By HELEN W. SMITH
Home Extension Agent
For thousands of years honey has been used a natural sweetening agent.
Colonies of bees were brought to Virginia sometime before 1620. Early settlers valued the bee for its honey and wax productions. Little I did they know that without the bee, jcrop production would be basically •zero.
| It was not until the 1800’s that * the bee’s true importance was k learned. Many think that a bee’s tmain contribution to man is honey, i. However, without the bee, we
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