164 THE BEE-KEEPER’S MANUAL. 
the garret of a house in Holborn,* performed an 
experiment to ascertain how far, and to what 
pasturage, his bees travelled. As they came out of 
the hive in the morning he sprinkled them all with a 
red powder, and immediately set off to Hampstead, 
thinking it most likely he should meet them there. 
What was his delight at beholding, among the 
multitudes of humming workers, some of ‘his own 
little fellows, which he had inecarnadined in the 
morning.’ From Holborn to Hampstead Heath is 
about four miles.” He refers also to Mr. Huish 
having observed bees on an island in the Frith of 
Forth, containing no hive, and distant four miles from 
the mainland. Such extended ranges may, however, 
be set down as both exceptional and prejudicial; and 
Mr. Taylor is doubtless right in believing, with Dr. 
Dunbar, that the ordinary range of their excursions is 
comprised within the radius of a comparatively small 
circle. When pressed for stores they may be impelled 
to these wider flights, directed, probably, by their very 
acute sense of smell. 
BEE-PROTECTOR. 
In operating with bees it is important to make as 
little bustle and disturbance as possible, and have at 
hand an assistant and whatever is likely to be wanted, 
for a very triflmg matter will often mar an operation 
irretrievably. Let all things be done coolly and 
quietly, and without ‘hurried motions of any kind, 
* This was the celebrated Daniel Wildman, chiefly known by the 
extravrdinary control that he obtained over his bees, and the perform- 
ances which he trained them to go through. 
