 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 592 str.
...curled around them. And upon all, a quiet silver moon smiled down through the balmy May heaven." BEES. A swarm of bees in May Is worth a load of hay ; A...spoon ; A swarm of bees in July Is not worth a fly. So says the popular proverb ; and supposing that our bees have been so well-conducted as to swarm in... | |
 | Anne Elizabeth Baker - 1854 - 440 str.
...VIRGIN swARM. The relative value of a swarm in the different months is thus estimated in popular rhyme: A swarm of bees in May Is worth a load of hay ; A swarm of bees in June Is worth a silver spoon ; But a swarm in July Is not worth a fly. or, You had better let it fly. industrious little insects.... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 584 str.
...curled around them. And upon all, a quiet silver moon smiled down, through the balmy May heaven." BEEP. A swarm of bees in May Is worth a load of hay ; A swarm of bees iu Junc Is worth a silver spoon ; A swarm of bees iu July Is not worth a fly. So says the popular proverb... | |
 | John Donaldson - 1854 - 264 str.
...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 JulyIs not worth a fly, &c., &c. Our record inserts this name in compliance with other... | |
 | Edwin Lees - 1856 - 358 str.
...course their value properly appreciated ; hence the following rhyming proverbs are in common use : " A swarm of Bees in May Is worth a load of hay. A swarm...spoon. A swarm of Bees in July Is not worth a fly." WEATHER SAWS AND PROVERBS. together was even now used as a rustic appliance, and considered useful... | |
 | John Warner Barber - 1857 - 274 str.
...same in June, and you'll come home in another tune. Shear your sheep in May, and shear them all away. A swarm of bees in May, is worth a load of hay ; But a swarm in July, is not worth a fly. Calm weather in June sets corn in tune. If on the eighth... | |
 | S.D. Harris - 1858 - 400 str.
...early chickens. There is a saying we learned when a boy : " A nwarm of bees in May, is worth a ton of hay ; A swarm of bees in June, is worth a silver...spoon ; A swarm of bees in July, is not worth a fly." The flowers have opened very well, this spring, to enable bees to feed early, upon which earlv swarming... | |
 | William Hone - 1859 - 882 str.
...hive is called a out, and the third from the same hive a tpindh. It is a saying in this county, that " A swarm of bees in May Is worth a load of hay ; A swarm of bees in June Is worth a silver spune (spoon ;) A swarm of bees in July Is not worth a fly. " In Warwickshire, also, there ii a different... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1860 - 202 str.
...and May sun Make clothes white and maids dun. March winds and April showers Bring forth May flowers. A swarm of bees in May is worth a load of hay ; But a swarm in July is not worth a fly. If the first of July it is rainy weather 'Twill rain more... | |
 | John Timbs - 1861 - 338 str.
...afterwards built up. The relative value of a swarm, in the different months, ia thus estimated : — A swarm of bees in May Is worth a load of hay ; A swarm of bees in June Is worth a silver spoon ; But a swarm in July Is not worth a fly. [or, You had better let it fly.] In some parts of Surrey,... | |
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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. 
