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Show BEE8 MARK MAN'8 COMING.' Wild Ones All Descended from Those 1 Once Domesticated. 1 All tho honey bees in thla country aTTjH having originally been Imported from flBH Europd or Aisa, thoro Is no racial dlf- BBfl ferenco between tbe wild ones and tho BBH domesticated; those that ltvo in trees BH aro simply tho descendants of thoso B that from time to time havo taken BH "French leave" from their owners' BBBJ hives and reverted to a stato of na-. BBH turo. Tho vast bulk of tho wild beea BH are of the German or black race, while BBH tho standard domesticated boo is tho B Italian; but that, however, is only bo- aBH causo tho Germans wero tho first to BH bo introduced here. Just when tho .H Germans camo Is In, doubt, but it was H some tlmo in tho seventeenth contu- H ry; certainly It was not until noar H tho closo of tho eighteenth century H that any bees wero found west of the H Mississippi. Tho Indians used to saj. B they could mark the advanco of tho H white man by tho appearance ot boes af In tho woods. Tho Italian bees wore H first imported in 18G0, Bettor tempor- H od and moro Industrious than the Gor- H mans, thoy havo become popular with aH nplralsts; but as many still keop the H Gorman bee, and others have tho hy- H brld formed by tho crossing of tho fH two races, whljo countless Italians H now havo taken to tho woods, there to breed moro hybrids, It Is cloar that H thoro Is no sure way of distinguishing H betweeu tho wild boo and the domestl- catcd. Outing Magazine aH , 1 aBaai |