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II THE BEGINNING OF II 



I j DADANT'S FOUNDATION i | 



m 1 It was in 1878, Charles Dadant, I lien 61 years old. and his son, I M 



M I C. P. Dadant, 27 years old, o])taine(l one of the first foundation mills I m 



M 1 made. And it was then that Dadant's Foundation had its beginning. I J 



I I They had some 300 colonies of bees in 4 apiaries and were de- I M 



M I sirous of nianufae- I = 



M [ t u 1' i n g foundation 



I i that would satisfy 



m i their bees as well as 



M I themselves. 



M I Father and son 



M I did the work them- 



H t selves, in an old log 



B I house, or if the wea- 



g I ther permitted, in 



I I the shade of a small 



ml oak sapling .just 



m I north of the house. 



H I There were other 



M I beekeepers just as 



B I anxious as they to 



g I get good eomb-foun- 



H I dation and the first 



B I year, besides sup- 



Tlic little oak saplins iiiulcr which Dadaxt's; Foux- 

 DATiox wa.s first made is now 3 feet thru. The little 

 flat top room at the right was the first Dadant Foun- 

 dation faftorv. 



plying their own needs the Dadants sold 500 i)Ounds. Thus for 

 the first time Dadant's Foundation was placed on the market. 



The little oak sapling grew as did their foundation business. The 

 second year they sold 2,000 pounds of Dadant's Foundation and 

 had to hire some help. All of the wax rendei'ing 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, of the bees, of the honey. 



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

 Avax-melting room was soon outgrown, for Dadant's Foundation 

 was being built on a firm basis, like the oak, and was to see a cor- 

 7-esponding growth. 



Dadant's Foundation (every inch, every poiiml, every ton, e(|iial 

 to any sam])le we have ever sent out). Specify it to your Dealer. 

 If he hasn't it write us. 



DADANT & SONS, HAMILTON, ILL. 



catalog and prices of bke supplies, beeswax, wax working 

 into coMii foundation and comb rendering for the asking. 



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