DADANT SYSTEM OF BEEKEEPIXd 



L. L. Langstroth 

 The inventor of the movable-frame hive 



The senior Dadant, Charles Dadant, emigrated to America 

 from France in 1863. He had kept bees as a pastime in Europe. 

 He was very fond of bees, ever since his youth and had already 

 experimented on different styles cf bee hives. In the early issues 

 of the American Bee Journal, especially in Volume III, in 

 1868, he told his beginnings in apiculture. 



In 1864, located upon a small brush farm, two miles north 

 of Hamilton, Illinois, he secured two colonies of common black 

 bees in box hives. From these two colonies came the establish- 

 ment which is now supporting a number of families and has made 



