Charles Dadant - That Bee Man from Champagne

<p>The Dadant name is familiar to beekeepers throughout the world as one of the principal manufacturers of beekeeping supplies and the publisher of <em>The American Bee Journal</em> for more than 150 years.</p><p><br></p><p>This book tells the story of Charles Dadant that Bee Man from Champagne who at the age of 46 left France to begin a new life in America in 1863 bringing his family after him.</p><p><br></p><p>From hard and hungry beginnings Charles and later his son Camille built up a successful business selling honey beeswax and Italian queens. Charles also developed the large Dadant hive contributed energetically to bee journals and cooperated with Langstroth on updating the latter's seminal <em>Hive and the Honeybee</em>.</p><p><br></p><p>This life of Dadant was compiled in about 1930 by Kent Pellett who learnt many fascinating details from Charles's son Camille.</p>