DADANT SYSTEM OF BEEKEEPING 



C. P. Dadant, sons, and son-in-law 

 From left to right — L. G. Saugier, M. G. Dadant, C. P. Dadant, H. C. 

 Dadant and L. C. Dadant 



them pecuniarily independent. Mr. Dadant often said that 

 those bees always paid, beforehand, in product, for all expenses 

 put in their management and in numerous improvements. 



After experimenting upon divers Old World methods of 

 beekeeping, he read in a magazine, of the success of Moses 

 Quinby, of New York State, bought his book "The Mysteries 

 of Beekeeping" and later "The Hive & Honey Bee" of Lang- 

 stroth, which he was to revise, 20 years later, at the request 

 of the author. In a very short time he became convinced 

 that the Langstroth system was ahead of anything yet devised; 

 that the movable-frame hive principle was the key of successful 

 beekeeping; because of the perfect control which it gives the 

 beekeeper over the bees and the combs. 

 The difference between the Langstroth and the Quinby methods 



