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Beekeeping For All

 Author: Abbé Warré  Category: Beekeeping  Pages: 158
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L’Abbé Eloi François Émile Warré was born on 9 March 1867 at Grébault-Mesnil in the Somme département. He was ordained a priest on 19 September 1891 — Amiens diocese — and became the parish priest of Mérélessart (Somme) in 1897 then of Martainneville (Somme) in 1904. He disappeared from the records in 1916 subsequently to reappear at Saint-Symphorien (Indre-et-Loire) to devote himself exclusively to beekeeping. He died at Tours on 20 April 1951. Abbé Warré developed The People’s Hive based on his studies of 350 hives of different systems that existed at his time as well as of the natural habits of the bee. To publish his findings, he wrote several books: La santé ou les Meilleurs traitements de toutes les maladies (Health or better treatments for all illnesses), Le Miel, ses propriétés et ses usages (Honey its properties and applications), La Santé, manuel-guide des malades et des bien-portants (Health, a manual for the ill and the well) –1912 — and by far the most important L’Apiculture pour Tous (Beekeeping for All) whose twelfth and last edition is dated 1948.

 

“Before leaving, I would like, dear bees, to carve my name on these leaves, blessed shrub that has taken all its sap from around your dwelling place.  In its shade, I have rested from my weariness, have healed my wounds. Its horizon satisfies my desires for there I can see the heavens.  Its solitude is more gentle than deep. Your friends are visiting it. You enliven it with your singing.  And because you do not die, dear bees, you will sing again and for ever, in the surrounding foliage, where my spirit will rest.  Thank you.  E.Warré”

 

“… At  a  convenient  time  we  raised  queens  and  supplied  swarms.  But  one  evening,  an  order  for  12 swarms  was  cancelled.  I  had  empty  hives  to  put  them  in,  but  I  had  only  enough  foundation  for  two hives. I settled for putting starters in the others as raw wax at the top of the frames, helped greatly by my  knife  in  putting  these  starters  in  order.  And  I  noticed  that  on  these  starters  the  bees  constructed their combs as quickly as those on foundation and that these combs were more regular. I thus decided to continue to use only starters of raw wax and I have never come to regret it.  The People’s Hive was thus designed.  And  if  small  hives  with  frames  economise  on  winter  stores  and  facilitate  the  development  of brood in spring, a hive with fixed comb will do it better because its volume is smaller: 36 litres instead of  44.  We  therefore  designed  the  People’s  Hive  with  fixed  comb.  Now  we  noticed  that  the  People’s Hive with fixed combs saved an extra 3 kg of stores compared with the People’s Hive with frames. We thus  had  two  hives:  the  People’s  Hive  with  fixed  comb,  a  perfect  hive,  but  not  convenient  on  a commercial  scale  because  it  does  not  allow  the  extractor  to  be  used,  and  the  People’s  Hive  with frames,  very  superior  to  modern  hives,  inferior  however  to  the  People’s  Hive  with  fixed  combs,  but convenient for commercial use…. “

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L'Abbé Eloi François Émile Warré was born on 9 March 1867 at Grébault-Mesnil in the Somme département. He was ordained a priest on 19 September 1891 -- Amiens diocese -- and became the parish priest of Mérélessart (Somme) in 1897 then of Martainneville (Somme) in 1904. He disappeared from the records in 1916 subsequently to reappear at Saint-Symphorien (Indre-et-Loire) to devote himself exclusively to beekeeping. He died at Tours on 20 April 1951. Abbé Warré developed The People's Hive based on his studies of 350 hives of different systems that existed at his time as well as of the natural habits of the bee. To publish his findings, he wrote several books: La santé ou les Meilleurs traitements de toutes les maladies (Health or better treatments for all illnesses), Le Miel, ses propriétés et ses usages (Honey its properties and applications), La Santé, manuel-guide des malades et des bien-portants (Health, a manual for the ill and the well) --1912 -- and by far the most important L'Apiculture pour Tous (Beekeeping for All) whose twelfth and last edition is dated 1948.

 

"Before leaving, I would like, dear bees, to carve my name on these leaves, blessed shrub that has taken all its sap from around your dwelling place.  In its shade, I have rested from my weariness, have healed my wounds. Its horizon satisfies my desires for there I can see the heavens.  Its solitude is more gentle than deep. Your friends are visiting it. You enliven it with your singing.  And because you do not die, dear bees, you will sing again and for ever, in the surrounding foliage, where my spirit will rest.  Thank you.  E.Warré"

 

"... At  a  convenient  time  we  raised  queens  and  supplied  swarms.  But  one  evening,  an  order  for  12 swarms  was  cancelled.  I  had  empty  hives  to  put  them  in,  but  I  had  only  enough  foundation  for  two hives. I settled for putting starters in the others as raw wax at the top of the frames, helped greatly by my  knife  in  putting  these  starters  in  order.  And  I  noticed  that  on  these  starters  the  bees  constructed their combs as quickly as those on foundation and that these combs were more regular. I thus decided to continue to use only starters of raw wax and I have never come to regret it.  The People's Hive was thus designed.  And  if  small  hives  with  frames  economise  on  winter  stores  and  facilitate  the  development  of brood in spring, a hive with fixed comb will do it better because its volume is smaller: 36 litres instead of  44.  We  therefore  designed  the  People's  Hive  with  fixed  comb.  Now  we  noticed  that  the  People's Hive with fixed combs saved an extra 3 kg of stores compared with the People's Hive with frames. We thus  had  two  hives:  the  People's  Hive  with  fixed  comb,  a  perfect  hive,  but  not  convenient  on  a commercial  scale  because  it  does  not  allow  the  extractor  to  be  used,  and  the  People's  Hive  with frames,  very  superior  to  modern  hives,  inferior  however  to  the  People's  Hive  with  fixed  combs,  but convenient for commercial use.... "

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