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With honey yields that occur in Autumn on the 
heather-clad moors and hill sides of the north; or 
the heavy flow of nectar occurring during the cooler 
season of the tropics ; or any other late yield ; the 
largest results can only be obtained where young 
queens have been fertilised and introduced to the 
stocks some three weeks prior to the expected harvest. 
CHAPTER XXVI. 
MANAGEMENT FOR LATE YIELDS. 
THE HEATHER HARVEST ; CONDITIONS IN 
TROPICAL CLIMATES. 
4d) AVING had considerable experience in former years, 
between 1870 and 1880, in sending my bees every 
Autumn to extensive heath-lands, and for some 
years also having an apiary in the midst of hundreds of 
acres of heather, the information placed before my readers 
in this chapter will doubtless prove of some _ value. 
Hitherto no work has given special treatment for the 
production of heather honey or other late yields; and yet 
this is a subject of the first importance to hundreds of 
bee-keepers, nearly all of whom wish for some better 
method than they have had for making the most of late 
harvests. 
Our Scotch friends have not by any means a monopoly 
in heather resources. Many counties to the south, and the 
western isles have large areas of this honey plant; but the 
honey secured in the north is considered to be better in 
quality. 
Late in the season bees must be close to, or in the 
