honey-farmers

Updated: May 27, 2025

This sweet humming creature, companion and friend of the flowers, is now distributed over the greater part of the continent, filling countless hollows in rocks and trees with honey as well as the millions of hives prepared for them by honey-farmers, who keep and tend their flocks of sweet winged cattle, as shepherds keep sheep, a charming employment, "like directing sunbeams," as Thoreau says.

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