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THE HIVE AND HONEY-BEE, 
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 was 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 1 wolf’s long howl,’ 
Incite to moil 
And steady t~l.” 
• “ It Is snprlslng In what countless swarms the bees have overspread the far West, 
within but a moderate number of years. The Indians consider them the harbingers 
of the white man, as the buffalo is of the red man, and say that, in proportion as 
tho bee advances, the Indian and the buffalo retire They have been the 
heralds of civilization, 6teadily preceding it as it advances from the Atlautio 
borders; and some of tho ancient settlers of the West pretend to give tho '-'ry 
year when the honey-bee first crossed the Mississippi. At present it swurus 
