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 . ng 2-)0 queens. These importations werekept up for years. In 1871 he started an out-apiary,and .steadilj increased the number of his colonies-from year to year. In 1874 he took into son, Camille P. Dadant, then 23 years old, whohad been raised in the business. Since 1876 theyhave kept five apia
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 . ng 2-)0 queens. These importations werekept up for years. In 1871 he started an out-apiary,and .steadilj increased the number of his colonies-from year to year. In 1874 he took into son, Camille P. Dadant, then 23 years old, whohad been raised in the business. Since 1876 theyhave kept five apiaries, of 6J to 120 colonies have built up a large trade in extracted honej-^—the product of their bees in I8-t4 having been-36,0U0 lbs. Messrs. Dadant & Son are auioug the-largest, if not the largest, manufacturers of combfouudatiou in the world. Coiuuicuciug with 5JU Ibs-in 1878, they readied in 1884 the enormous amount ,lX)0 lbs. Both father and son have written no lit-tle for the American press. Mr. C. Dadant is betterknown as a writer for European publications, andhas been one of the main expounders of Americanmethods in Europe; and the Langstroth-Quinby-Dadant hive, introduced by him into the Old World,is largely used under the name of the Dadant 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 th
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