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frequently demonstrated by many ot our bee-masters, 
and in our own experiments we have succeeded in secu- 
ring the fertilization of several dozen ; but the general 
result of our experiments with nearly every method 
known, has been so varied that as yet we cannot call it 
a success. 
The following has proved the most successful: — Take 
wire-cloth woven about eight meshes to the inch, and 
construct a cage a foot in diameter, and oval in shape, 
five days after the queen has hatched from the cell, put 
her with three choice drones in this cage and close it to 
prevent their getting out, then leave this cage with the 
bees in the sun for an hour or two ; if the queen does 
not become fertilized the first two hours, return her to 
her hive and confine her to it, and place her with three 
drones in the wire cage the next day, fov an hour or two, 
and thus repeat until she becomes fertilized. 
By the following method we had a few queens fertil- 
ized, and as it is very simple it recommends itself to the 
masses for a trial. I have taken the two combs, bees, 
queen and all, and placed it on one side of a No. 1 
Champion Hive, in the roof I cut a hole to receive a 
glass eight by ten inches, placed the roof on the lower 
part of the hive, covered the glass until two days after 
the queen emerged from the cell, then I uncovered the 
glass, removed all but about One dozen of the best col- 
ored drones, and closed the hive; through the roof i 
