 A swarm of bees in May is worth a load of hay. A swarm of bees in June is worth a silver spoon. A swarm of bees in July is not worth a fly.  Once a Week - Page 422edited by - 1860Full view - About this book
 | 1846 - 266 pages
...John Boldero. 70. following is quoted in Miege's " Great French Dictionary," fol Lond. 1687, 2d part.] A SWARM of bees in May Is worth a load of hay ; A swarm of bees in June Is worth a silver spoon ; A swarm of bees in July Is not worth a fly. 71. THEY that wash on Monday Have all the week... | |
 | William Charles Cotton - 1848 - 152 pages
...his pains, and they by losing their lives in the act of stinging. IV. SWARMING AND HIVING BEES.— A swarm of bees in May Is worth a load of hay, A swarm of bees in June Is worth a silver spoon, A swarm of bees in July Is not worth a fly : so runs the old English saying: here a September... | |
 | Edward Jerningham Wakefield - 1848 - 512 pages
...bee master indeed who will not freely give out of this abundance. *****" "SWARMING AND HIVING BEES. " A swarm of bees in May Is worth a load of hay ; A swarm of bees in June Is worth a silver spoon ; A swarm of bees in July Is uot worth a fly. " — so runs the old English saying — here a... | |
 | william blackwood - 1849 - 764 pages
...the bees supplied him with their honey. * Georgia, book iv. There ia an old rhyme which says, that A swarm of bees in May Is worth a load of hay ; A swarm of bees in June Is worth a silver spoon ; A swarm of bees in July la not worth a fly. Mr Alexander Pettigrew, gardener, of Hampstead,... | |
 | H. D. Richardson - 1852 - 140 pages
...are quite as applicable to the relative size of the swarms. Their doggerel lines tell us that — *' A swarm of bees in May Is worth a load of hay ; A swarm of bees in June Is worth a silver spoon ; A swarm of bees in July Is not worth a fly. And, hence a late, equally with a weak, swarm ought... | |
 | Henry Stephens - 1852 - 828 pages
...before May doth go. A May flood — never did good. Shear your sheep in May — and shear all away. A swarm of bees in May Is worth a load of hay. Look at your com in May, And you'll come weeping away. JUNE. Look at your corn in June, And you'll... | |
 | Year - 1853 - 260 pages
...an old country adage, which people employed in hiving them often repeat with great pleasure : — " A swarm of bees in May Is worth a load of hay ; A swarm in June Is worth a silver spoon ; A swarm in July Is worth a butterfly." The early swarm gives time... | |
 | Henry Stephens - 1853 - 854 pages
...blow—before May doth go. A May flood—never did good. Shear your sheep in May—and shear all away. A swarm of bees in May Is worth a load of hay. Look at your corn in May, And you'll come weeping away. JUNE. Look at your corn in June, And you'll... | |
 | 1853 - 606 pages
...frog and her brood. A cold May and a windy Makes a full barn and a findy. A May flood never did good. A swarm of bees in May Is worth a load of hay. But a swarm in July Is not worth a fly, &c., &c. Our author inserts this name in compliance with other... | |
 | 1867 - 746 pages
...his horn, It's good both for hay and corn." " A cold May and a windy Makes a full bam and a findy." " A swarm of bees in May Is worth a load of hay ; Bat a (warm in July Is not worth a fly." Will any couplets of Tennyson reap so large i fame • About... | |
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