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392 JUNE. 



more especially in a cool summer, the same dairy 

 lias scarcely a defective cheese. 



" In North Wiltshire, an experienced, and very 

 intelligent dairy-woman, observed, that when the 

 " crazey" (the crow-foot) Is in full blow, she finds 

 her cheese particularly inclined to heave ; while a 

 dairy farmer of the highest class in the same dis- 

 trict, has observed, that when the creeping trefoil 

 white clover (trifolium repens) has been in full blow, 

 and in particular abundance, he has heard the 

 loudest complaints of the licentious disposition of the 

 cheese. It is not probable that any one species of 1 

 plants is the sole cause of the disorder. Almost 

 every cheese has its peculiar flavour, and its diffe- 

 rent degree of acrimony. Nothing is more likely 

 to give that almost caustic quality which some 

 cheeses are possessed of, than the common and 

 bulbous crowfoots : not only their flowers, but 

 their leaves, are singularly acrid. On the other 

 hand, there are several circumstances which render 

 it probable that a redundancy of the creeping trefoil 

 tends to aggravate the disorder. Dry seasons, by 

 keeping the grass short, give it an oppprtunity of 

 spreading. Manure is well known to encourage it ; 

 sometimes in a singular manner. Sheep-feeding 

 pasture grounds produce a similar effect, partly 

 owing perhaps to the blade grasses being kept 

 short ; and in part to the soil being meliorated by 

 a fresh manure ; and it has been observed, that a 

 luite of cow-grounds, which have been occasionally 



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