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should assist the Royal Agricultural Society that your triangle cake contained sesam^ and bran, 



of England in its endeavours to nail, as game- why didn't you mention it in your letter to Mr Wells? 



° -,11 1 r • ^ 1. J Witness : Because we did not find it necessary to 



keepers nail the heads of vermin to the door, ^^ ^^ 



all who, professing to sell a good article for corn ^j. Field : You sent a letter along with a circular 



or roots, palm off one that destroys rather to Mr Wells ; why did you not mention it in your 



than increases the value of the crops ; and letter ? 



crops 

 feeding-stuffs which, instead of fattening 

 animals, secure only emaciation and death. 



The Royal's lines, like those of most 

 pioneers in good work, have not fallen in 

 pleasant places. Since they began boldly to 

 give, with names attached, the results of 

 special analyses, they have been subjected to 

 two actions of libel, in both of which they 

 were mulcted in nominal damages carrying 

 costs. Notwithstanding those losses, we are 

 certain that the members will not grudge the 

 money coming out of the funds for the pur- 

 poses of the defence, nor cash to enable the 

 Society to carry on, as they have been doing 

 lately, the publication of names. The service 

 they are rendering to agriculture by so doing 

 cannot be over-rated. The reports of the 

 trials in which they failed prove that their 

 inquiries and their operations were not 

 mnneeded. Take for instance the following 

 evidence given by Mr Ayre, who sold a cake 

 that was complained of, and the subject of 

 action at Leeds last week as reported in The 

 Farmer : — 



Witness : Because we took it for granted he knew 

 what cakes he was buying. 



Mr Field : You offered him triangle best linseed. 

 Is it best linseed with 50 per cent, of bran and 

 sesame ? Is that linseed ? 



Witness : That's triangle best linseed cake. 

 Mr Field : Is it linseed cake at all ? 

 Witness : I should say yes. 



Mr Field : Half of it being bran and sesame, you 

 say it is a linseed cake ? 



Witness : I say that the trade treats all those as 

 linseed cake. 



Mr Field : I know the trade treats it so, and that 

 is the reason I am here. Why didn't you put it on 

 your circular? 



Witness : We can't put everything on the circular. 

 Mr Field : It would not be very long to say 50 per 

 cent, is sesame and bran ; it would not take very 

 much printing that. 



Witness : A baker would not state the number of 

 currants he puts into a cake. 



Mr Field : Why didn't you put it on this (holding 

 up the circular). 



Witness : Because it is unnecessary ; it is well known 

 throughout the trade. 



This litde bit of information about the 



" tricks of trade " is itself worth to fanners 



ten times the amount of penalty and costs in 



which the Royal Agricultural Society was in- 



Mr Ayre, in examination, said that they had never yolved in eliciting it. We trust the Royal 



made a secret of there being sesame and bran in the ^-^^ ^^ encouraged tO continue its gOod WOrk, 



cake, and Mr Wells was aware that it was a mixed ^^^^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^at has passed in the 



Mr Field : As you were so anxious to tell everybody Law Courts. 



