1. Langstroth, Dadant is considered one of the founding fathers of modern beekeeping.
19 Facts About Charles Dadant
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Charles Dadant was born in Vaux-sous-Aubigny, in Haute-Marne, in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France.
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Charles Dadant purchased land on the rolling tallgrass prairie in Hamilton, western Illinois, where he built a simple log house.
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Charles Dadant did not know much English, but he was determined to succeed in his new country.
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Charles Dadant learned English by subscribing to the New York Tribune.
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Charles Dadant renounced the Catholic Church and became a socialist.
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Charles Dadant contributed articles on beekeeping to numerous bee journals, both American and European.
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Charles Dadant defended the Langstroth patented beehive in the journal.
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Charles Dadant translated Langstroth's Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee.
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Charles Dadant, were assigned the new edition of Lorenzo Langstroth's 1853 work Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee.
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Charles Dadant is one of the pioneers of modern beekeeping.
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Charles Dadant strived to import Italian bees into the United States, and according to ABC in Bee Culture 1890, he succeeded by shipping 250 queen bees to the United States in 1874.
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Charles Dadant was not the first to bring Italian queens into the United States, selling for up to half the price asked by his competitors.
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Charles Dadant was always seeking a better way to keep bees.
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Charles Dadant recognized the superiority of the magazine hive with movable frames.
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Charles Dadant tried Quinby's and Langstroth's frame sizes and developed his own frame size of 12" x 13", which he recommended in a French-language pamphlet, Petit Cours D'Apiculture, in 1874.
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Charles Dadant quickly abandoned that kind of beekeeping for the modern Langstroth hive concept.
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Charles Dadant founded one of the first beekeeping equipment factories in Hamilton, Illinois, which is still owned by the Charles Dadant family today.
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The modified 10-blade Charles Dadant hive, named after him, has been disseminated worldwide by his descendants since 1874.