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THE niVE AND HONET-EKE, 
white man’s fly.* Longfellow, in his “ Song of Hiawatha,” 
in describing the advent of the European to the Now 
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, tlio honey-maker; 
Wheresoe’er tliey 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 
su]i]flied with honey than they now are, and large tubs 
filled with snow-white combs were a common sight. 
Many Apiarian.s 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,’ 
Ineite to moil 
And steady t'^.” 
• ** It Is supHsIng In what countless swarms tho bees have overspread the far West 
within but a moderate number of years. Tho Indians consider them the harbingers 
of the white men, os tho btiifalo is of the red man, and say that. In propurtion os 
tho bee advances, the Indian and tho buffalo retire. They have been the 
bernlds of civilization, steadily pi-ocedlng it ns it advances from tho Atlantio 
borders; and some of the ancient settlors of the West pretend to give tiro vory 
year when the honey-bee iirst crossed tho Mississippi. At present it swarus 
