First Lessons in Beekeeping

Dadant, C. P.

ISBN 10: 1578987970 / ISBN 13: 9781578987979

Published by Martino Publishing, Mansfield Centre, 2009

About this Item

Facsimile of the 1934 10th edition. Light shelf wear, previous owner's name inside front cover.

Seller Inventory # 008449

Bibliographic Details

• Title: First Lessons in Beekeeping
• Publisher: Martino Publishing, Mansfield Centre
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1578987970
• ISBN 13: 9781578987979
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Animal Husbandry

About this title

Synopsis

2009 Reprint of original 1934 edition. Paperback, 171pp. The Dadant family, originally from France, is one the first families of beekeeping in America. Charles Dadant (1817-1902) is considered one of the founding fathers of modern beekeeping. He was always seeking a better way to keep bees. Just as he had begun with the old European "eke", he quickly abandoned that kind of beekeeping for the modern Langstroth hive concept. Bee hives have often been designed and built without regard for the needs and habits of the honey bee colony. Probably the best design for a colony was the large hive developed by Charles Dadant. It provided a large, deep brood chamber with plenty of room in which the queen could lay, and shallower supers for honey storage. However, the price and promotion of smaller hives offered for sale during the period from about 1885 to 1900 made them more popular. Charles son, Camille Pierre Dadant, authored First Lessons in Beekeeping, a standard and still important work on this subject. Dadant's book and its succeeding editions have been America's first stop for beginning beekeepers for over 90 years. Lavishing illustrated with photographs.

About the Author

Camille Pierre Dadant (1851–1938) was the son of Charles Dadant, one of the fathers of modern beekeeping techniques, inventor of the Dadant beehive, and founder of one of the first beekeeping equipment manufacturers. The business is still extant and run by the family, as is their publication, American Bee Journal.