Green’s Dictionary of Slang

clover-kicker n.

[play on SE]
(US)

1. a clumsy oaf, a boor, a dull-witted peasant.

[US]Wadsworth Gas Attack 15: Clover Kicker’s Waltz.
[US]Literary Digest 10 Apr. 12: Clover kicker. Farmer, rube.
[US] in DARE.

2. a rustic, a farmer.

[US]Seattle Star (WA) 11 Nov. 8/3: ‘The gimp was doing the royal with some clover-kicker at the next board.’ [The boss was entertaining a friend from the country at the next table].
[US]N.Y. Tribune 9 Dec. 14/2: ‘Wild Bill’ Doig [...] the amibitious hay-shaker and clover-kicker had been fined $25.
[US]Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Sl. §391.3: rustic, bumpkin, clover kicker.
[US]Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn).
[US]Wentworth & Flexner DAS.