| 1846 - 300 Seiten
...way, LXXII. [The following is quoted in Miege's ' Great French Dictionary, fol. Lond. 1687, 2(1 part.] 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. LXXIII. THEY that wash on Monday Have all the week to dry; They that wash on Tuesday Are not so much... | |
| William Charles Cotton - 1848 - 152 Seiten
...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...spoon, A swarm of bees in July Is not worth a fly : so runs the old English saying: here a September swarm does not differ so very much in value from... | |
| Edward Jerningham Wakefield - 1848 - 512 Seiten
...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...worth a silver spoon ; A swarm of bees in July Is uot worth a fly. " — so runs the old English saying — here a September swarm does not differ so... | |
| william blackwood - 1849 - 764 Seiten
...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...Is worth a silver spoon ; A swarm of bees in July la not worth a fly. Mr Alexander Pettigrew, gardener, of Hampstead, adopts a very simple plan of preventing... | |
| H. D. Richardson - 1852 - 140 Seiten
...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...spoon ; A swarm of bees in July Is not worth a fly. And, hence a late, equally with a weak, swarm ought either to be prevented, if possible, from leaving... | |
| Henry Stephens - 1852 - 828 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
| 1867 - 746 Seiten
...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... | |
| Henry Stephens - 1853 - 854 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
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