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THE HTVE AND ITONF.T-IiKE, 
white man’s fly.* Longfellow, in his “ Song of Hiawatha,** 
in describing the advent of the European to the New 
World, makes his Indian warrior say of the bee and the 
white clover : — 
“ Wheresoe'er they move, before them 
Swarms the stinging fly, the Ahmo, 
Swarms the bee, the honey-maker ; 
Wheresoe’er they tread, beneath them 
Springs a flower unknown among us, 
Springs the White Man’s Foot in blossom.” 
As the bees flourished for years undisturbed by the 
moth, it seems probable that it was not brought over in 
the first hives, but at a much later period. In whatever 
way it wits introduced, it has so multiplied in our propi- 
tious climate of hot summers, that few districts are now 
exempt from its ravages. 
Fifty years ago our markets were proportionably better 
supplied with honey than they now are, and large tubs 
filled with snow-white combs were a common sight. 
Many Apiarians contend that newly-settled countries 
are most favorable to the bee ; and an old German adage 
runs thus : — 
“ Bells’ ding dong, 
And choral song, 
Deter the bee 
From industry : 
But hoot of owl, 
And ‘ wolf’s long howl,’ 
Incite to moil 
And steady tr»I.” 
• “ It Is snprlslng In wliat countless swarms the bees havo overspread the far West, 
within but a moderate number of years. The Indians consider thorn the harhlngors 
of the white man, os the buffalo Is of tho red man, and say that. In proportion us 
the beo advances, tho Indian and the bulfulo retire Thoy have been tin. 
heralds of civilization, steadily preceding It as It advancos from the Atlantio 
borders ; and somo of tho ancient settlers of the West pretend to {jive tho '■-ry 
year wbon the honey-bee first crossed tho Mississippi. At present u sworn* 
