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TI1E HIVE AND IlxJNEY-BHE. 
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 proportionablv 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:— 
“ Bolls’ ding dong, 
And choral song, 
Deter the bee 
From industry: 
But hoot of owl, 
And ‘ wolf’s long howl,’ 
Incite to moil 
And steady foil.” 
• ** It Is suprising In what countless swarms tho bees liavo overspread the far West 
within but a moderate nnmhor of years. Tho Indians consider them the harbingers 
of the wliit^i man, os the butfalo is of tho red man, and say that, in proportion as 
the bee advances, tho Indian and tho butfalo retire. They have been the 
heralds of civilization, steadily preceding it as it advances from the Atlantlo 
borders; and some of the ancient settlers of the West pretend to give tho v *'ry 
year when the houey-beo first crossed tho Mississippi. At present it swarm 
