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placing the wire screen, so as to allow these insects to escape. 

 The netting is nailed on the outside of the window project- 

 ing about sis inches above. Three small slats are nailed be- 

 tween the frame and the netting, so as to leave a space of ^4 

 of an inch between the wire-cloth and the wall, at the top 

 of the window. The bees and flies that have been brought 

 in with the combs, or that have entered the room, at some 

 time or other, fly against the wire-cloth, and soon find the 

 small fissure above, through which they escape; but, in re- 

 turning, they smell the honey through the wire-cloth, and 

 forgetting that they have escaped between the wire and the 

 wall, they try in vain to pass through the wire-cloth. 



In the engraving, the window sashes have been removed, 

 but their use in no way interferes with the screen, if the 

 lower one is raised, or the upper one lowered, while there are 

 bees in the room. 



The same method might be adopted in grocery stores on 

 windows where flies congregate. In the morning, the flies 

 would climb out of the screen of their own accord. 



