1920 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



187 



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THE BEGINNING OF DADANT'S 

 FOUNDATION 



It was in 1878, Charles Dadant, then 61 years old, and his son C P. 

 Dadant, 27 years old, obtained one of the first foundation mills made. And 

 it was then that Dadant's Foundation had its beginning. 



They had some 300 colonies of bees in four apiaries and were very 

 desirous of manufacturing foundation that would satisfy their bees as well 

 as themselves. 



Father and son did the work themselves, in an old log house, or if 



weather permitted, in the shade of a 

 small oak sapling just north of the 

 house. 



There were other beekeepers, just 

 as anxious as they to get good comb 

 foundation and the first year, besides 

 supplying their own needs the Dadants 

 sold 500 pounds. Thus for the first 

 time Dadant's Foundation was placed 

 on the market. 



The little oak sapling grew as did 



The little oak sapling under which Dadant's Foundation their foUudatlOU busiueSS. The SeCOnd 



W1I8 first made is now 3 feet through. The little flat 



top room at ^he;]«^j'„^j'|^;^=y""' °'"^'"' year they sold 2000 pounds of Da- 



dant's Foundation and had to hire 

 some help. All of the wax rendering was done by the elder Dadant who 

 took great pains to do a neat job, and retain in the beeswax the odor of the 

 hive, the bees, of the honey. 



The shade of the little oak sapling no longer sufficed, their first wax 

 melting room was soon outgrown for Dadant's Foundation was being built 

 on a firm basis, like the oak, and was to see a corresponding growth. 



DADANT'S FOUNDATION— Every inch, every pound, every ton, equal 

 to any sample we have ever sent out 



Specify it to your dealer. If he hasn't it write us 



DADANT & SONS, Hamilton, Illinois 



Catalog and prices on Bee Supplies, Beeswax, Wax Working into Comb-Foundation 

 and Comb Rendering for the asking 



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