A beekeeper's rhyme weighing up a swarm by the month it arrives: worth a load of hay in May, a silver spoon in June, nothing at all by July. A scrap of real country wisdom set to rhyme.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
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.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition