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CHICAGO, ILL, JULY 27, 1899, 



No, 30. 



Three Generations of the Dadants. 



BY THE EDITOR. 



THE name of Chas. Dadant & Son is one too well known 

 not only to all our readers, but to the whole world of 

 bee-keepers, to need any words of introduction from us. 

 However, it aiiords us considerable pleasure to be permitted 



bee-business, in the earliest numbers of the American Bee 

 Journal. He came to America in 1863, with the intention 

 of g-rowing- g-rapes, but the grape-growing- business proving- 

 a comparative failure, he ag-ain turned his attetition to the 

 bees. With the help of a dictionary and a weekly American 

 newspaper he managed to master the Eng-lish language, so 

 as to be able to understand it and write it very fluently, but 

 he has never been able to speak it freely and master the 

 pronunciation, and his enunciation is difficult, so much so 

 tnat those who meet him for the first time often wonder 

 whether this can be the same man who wielded so ready a 

 pen in the defense of the large hive, of which he has been 

 the main champion. 



Among Mr. Dadant's achievements in behalf of bee- 

 culture are most prominent his successful importations of 

 queens from Italy in 1874-75, and his revision of that classic 

 in bee-culture — " Langstroth on the Honev-Bee " — which he 



C. P. Dadant. 



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to present on this page the pictures of a quintet of Dadants, 

 and to give a little of their history. 



Mr. Chas. Dadant was born in a village of Champagne, 

 in France, May 22, 1817. He kept bees in France for pleas- 

 ure when a boy, and long ago told of his adventures in the 



Maurice 3f. Henry C. Chas. Dadant. 



republisht in connection with his son in 1889, and of which 

 a number of new editions have since been printed. 



Altho Mr. Dadant is well known in this countrj-, he is 

 still better known in Europe as an extensive apiarist. His 

 translation of the work of Langstroth, under the name of 



