The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary . CAMILLE p. DADANT. He published a Petit Cours dApiculture Pratique in1874, in France. To him was committed the task ofpreparing a revised edition of Langstroths book,and this he has also translated for publication in theFrench language. The English editicm contains 520pages, and has been fully brought up to the
The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary . CAMILLE p. DADANT. He published a Petit Cours dApiculture Pratique in1874, in France. To him was committed the task ofpreparing a revised edition of Langstroths book,and this he has also translated for publication in theFrench language. The English editicm contains 520pages, and has been fully brought up to the furihir particulars stc b:)()k notices elsewhere. BlOGKAPillEiS OF NOTED BEE-KEEPERS. 335 JAMES Heddou was born Aug. :.8, , in tlie Gene-see Valley, New York. Early in lite he removed totlie West; and for years Dowagiac. Midi., lias beena name well known to bee keepei-s. because it is thehome of James Heddon. Endowed by nature with amind of remarkable vijror lie lacked the ad\antaf,es. J.\MES HEDDOX. of much training in .seiiools, and possibly also itsdisadvantages. His entrance into the ranks of bee-keepers, about the year 1869, may probably be tracedto the fact that he maiTicd Hastings, the daugh-ter of a bee-keeper, serving a years apprenticeshipwitii the father. Few liave shown such faith in bee-keeping, for Mr. H. was the first in tlie State, andone of the first in the country, to make a specialtyof that pursuit, and few liave sliown tliat their faithwas so well founded; for, commencing with nothing,he credits his capital, amounting to thousands, en-tirely to the aid of the little busy bee. His apiarieshave some years contained between .)O0 and 600 colo-nies. In 1879 he added the supply-business. Mr. Heddon is slight and wiry in figure, below themedium size, of sandy complexion, and intenselynervous in temperament. Tliis nervous tendencyleaves its strong impress on his writings, and moreespecially on his speaking. To thiit. and to the sta
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