1917 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



273 



hatclu'd (|iiu(.ii. It lias hi'cii staU-d l)y 

 good autlioritics lliat llic (|uocii does 

 not do this, but I have seen it done. 

 I believe after hearing this testimony, 

 if the reputation of tlie witness for 

 trutli aiui veracity is not impeached, 

 an inii)artial jury would find said 

 queen "guilty." The reader can be 

 the judge. 

 Vinccnnes, Ind. 



Art in Advertising 



BY A. K. BONNEY. 



HAVING some idle hours this win- 

 ter, I began studying a new 

 sticker, and finally evolved a 

 plate which I shall use, in different 

 sizes as a label on cards, envelopes and 

 letter heads. The one I shall use is the 

 one which reads BONNEY HONEY. 



One of the others reads : 



BONNEY HONEY 

 PRODUCED IN IOWA 



But Produced in Iowa is a long mouth- 

 ful, so I made the other 



BONNEY HONEY 

 FROM IOWA 



and, finally, as IOWA alone tells the 

 story, I evolved the square coat of 

 arms, and observing people may see 

 that I have called on the escutcheon, 

 the bees, honey comb, skep and part of 

 the alphabet. In Dexter chief toint, the 

 bee, where it logically belongs; in i/«- 

 islcr chief point, the skep. as it is sec- 

 ondary; BONNEY HONEY in middle, 

 in honor and fess foints; and IOWA 

 in nombril and middle base points. Dex- 

 ter and sinister base faints vacant. I 

 used the escutcheon of pretense for 

 IOWA, both for relief and to show 

 that the name did not come from any- 

 thing apicultural. 



By using this escutcheon in the 

 upper left hand of a letter sheet I can 

 put whatever wording I chose to the 

 right of it. To illustrate : 



THE BUCK GROVE APIARY 



Producers of 



BONyEY flOXEY 



We try to produce the best extracted honej' 

 on earth 



And generally succeed. 



Buck Grove, Iowa. 



The wording of a letter-head is, of 

 course, a matter of taste. 



Because Mr. H. E. Roth, of Dexter, 

 Iowa, adopted my suggestion of an 

 alliteration in choosing a name for his 



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honey, I used QUEEN QUALITY as 

 another illustration, and as his name 

 does not appear as in BONNEY 

 HONEY, I use his monogram in sinis- 

 ter chief poiyit. 



Buck Grove, Iowa. 



Southern Beekeeping 



BY I^ L. STAPLETON 



ON May 14th. Mr. J. J. Wilder of 

 Cordele, Ga , who is familiar 

 to the bee fraternity as one of 

 the large producers of honey in the 

 United States, notified me that he had 

 been requested to make a trip down 

 the Appalachicola River and meet with 

 the beekeepers of the tupelo belt, for 

 the purpose of organizing an associa- 

 tion, and requested that I make the 

 trip with him. 



Mr. Wilder came by and spent Sun- 

 day night with me and on Monday 

 morning, the 14th inst., we took the 

 boat at Bainbridge for Wewahitchka, 

 Fla., where we arrived Tuesday morn- 

 ing about day break. At Bainbridge 

 we were joined by Messrs. L. L. and 

 A. E. Lanier of Wewahitchka, who had 

 just sold their crop of honey to a Bain- 

 bridge Company. The tupelo honey 

 producers have had an unusually fine 

 season, the flow being exceptionally 

 good and prices satisfactory. On the 

 wharf at Bainbridge we saw over 100 

 barrels of tupelo honey, and on the 

 wharf at Wewahitchka 41 barrels. Quite 

 a lot had been shipped and there is a 

 good deal yet to go. Our information 

 is that practically the entire crop had 

 been sold. 



Mr. Wilder and I are under special 

 obligation to the Messrs. Lanier, who 

 took charge of us on Tuesday and 

 showed us many courtesies. We met 

 quite a number of prominent beekeepers 

 at Wewahitchka, but space forbids the 

 mentioning of all. Among others, we 

 met Mr. S. S. Alderman, now over 80 

 years of age,who was one of the pioneer 

 beekeepers of that section. Mr. Alder- 

 man informed us that he began keeping 

 bees on a commercial scale in 1870. 

 On Tuesday morning Mr. J. K. Isbell 

 took us through his apiary of about 

 300 colonies all in one yard. Mr. 

 Isbell's apiary is one of the prettiest the 

 writer has ever seen. He uses a nine 

 frame hive taking a Hoffman frame, 



THE BEES HELPED TO BUILD THE NEAT LITTLE HOME OF N, L. 

 STAPLETON, OF COLQUITT, GA, 



