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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 largo 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 toil.” 
• M ltiesuprlslngin what countless swarms the beoa havo overspread tv -far West 
within but a moderate number of years. The Indians consider them tho Vurblngera 
of the white man, ns tho buffalo Is of tho red mnn, and say that. In pre portion as 
tho bco advances, tho Indian and the buffalo rotiro. They have been tho 
heralds of civilization, steadily procoding it as it advances from ti 3 Atlantic 
borders; and some of tho ancient settlors of the West pretend to give tha ^cv 
year when tho honcy-bco that crossed tho Mississippi. At present it swain* 
