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A Modern Bee- farm 



CHAPTER XXII. 



MANAGEMENT FOR HEATHER 

 HONEY. 



RAVING 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 considerable 

 value. Hitherto no work has given special treatment for 

 the production of heather honey ; and yet it 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 this late harvest. 



Late in the season bees must be close to, or in the 

 midst of, the crop they are to gather from, and in the 

 case of heather large quantities of honey can be, and often 

 are, secured ; but in very many instances the stock combs 

 receive, and are totally blocked up with this valuable 

 honey which the apiarist desires to get stored in the 

 sections. 



