By the end of the American Civil War he had nine colonies of honeybees, and traveled with his young son across the Mississippi River to sell honey and beeswax in a neighboring town.
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Just as he had begun with the old European "eke" he quickly abandoned that kind of beekeeping for the modern Langstroth hive concept.
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Along with Petro Prokopovych, Dadant is considered one of the founding fathers of modern beekeeping.
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