CLO 



CLO 



tial condensation of the vaponr of 

 water, which air naturally contains. 

 The condensation is produced by cold 

 and the operation of winds blowing 

 in directions contrary to one another 

 CLOUTPJD CREAM. The clout- 

 ed cream of Devonshire is a well- 

 known delicacy. It is made by heat- 

 ing the milk on the hearth, or by 

 means of a stove, to a degree a little 

 below" the boiling-point, when the 

 clouted cream rises to the top like a 

 thick scum, and is taken off when 

 cooled. This cream being merely 

 stirred briskly with the hand or a 



stick, is converted into butter. It is 

 universally admitted tiiat the butter 

 thus produced is inferior to lliat 

 which is made from the cream which 

 has risen slowly and spontaneously, 

 and in all the largest and best dai- 

 ries in the vale of Honiton the cream 

 is never clouted, except to be eaten 

 in that state as a luxury. 



CLOVER. A name given to dif- 

 ferent species of trifolium. Dutch 

 clover is T. repens ;{b) purple clover 

 is T. prafense ;{a) cow grass, or per- 

 ennial clover, is T. 7nedtuni.{d) 



Its abundant produce, its destruc- 



tion of annual weeds, which it smoth- 

 ers by its broad foliage, and especially 

 the beauty of the wheat sown after 

 it, recommend it as an indispensable 

 part of an improved rotation of crops. 

 There are various kinds of clover, 

 which all go under the botanical name 

 of trifolium, from the three leaves 

 which grow together, or, rather, the 

 form of the leaf, which has three 

 heart-shaped parts. They are an- 

 nual, biennial, or perennial plants. 

 The annual clovers, with the excep- 

 tion of the Trifolium incarnalum (Trl-.- 

 jlc mcarnat or farouchc),{c) introduced 

 from the south of France, are not so 

 generally cultivated as the biennial, 

 which produces a greater crop, and 

 being sown along with the spring 

 grain, comes up the first year under 

 its shade, and gives two full crops in 

 the second. In good land il will some- 

 times stand another year, but it falls 



off in quantity ; 

 and unless other 

 artificial grass- 

 es or perenni- 

 al clovers have 

 been sown a- 

 mong it, to fill 

 up the places 

 where the bien- 

 nial clover has 

 failed, it is sel- 

 dom profitable 

 to allow it to 

 remain on the 

 ground more 

 than one year 

 after that in 

 which it is sown, 

 ploughed in in the fall in clay lands 

 for a spring crop, but if fallowed ear- 

 ly, wheat can be grown on the fresh 

 ley. 

 The most approved variety of the 



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