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it right to tell us at present. I shall therefore reserve my general observations 
until then. I have led your minds to the facts, which I am prepared to 
prove, and after I have called my witnesses, whether my friend calls any 
further evidence or not, I shall have an opportunity of addressing you again 
before the case closes. 
Mr. JOHN "WELLS sworn : examined ly Mr. Melloe. 
Q. Do you live at Booth Ferry House ? — A. I do. 
Q. I think you are a magistrate for this division, and a member of the Eoyal 
Ayricultural Society? — A. Yes. 
Q. You are also a landowner in the Eiding ? — A. Yes. 
Q. Have you two farms — one at Booth Ferrj^ ? — A. Yes ; about 600 acres. 
Q. And another at Airmyn Pastures '? — A. Yes, 400 acres. 
Q. How far is that from Booth Ferry ? — A. The farmhouses are about three 
miles apart. 
Q. I think you have also another farm called Sancton ? — A. I have. 
Q. At Booth Ferry and Aiimyn Pastures had you feeding beasts ? — A. I 
had. 
Q. What number at Booth Ferry ? — A. I think there would be twenty-four 
feeding beasts — two bulls that were feeding, and there were two or three 
holding heifers — in-calving heifers — besides, but they were not fed. 
Q. That was in February last? — A. In Februaiy last. 
Q. Were they of any particular breed ? — A. Shorthorns — they were gene- 
rally the common Shorthorns. 
Q. But there were several cows besides ? — A. There were eight cows ; three 
young bulls and two young heifers as well as the feeding beasts, likewise getting 
cake. 
Q. Were they of the same breed as the others ? — A. They were a pure 
Shorthorn breed stock entered in the Herd Book. 
Mr. Justice Blackburn : Kow just let me understand if I have got them 
right — you had twenty-four beasts and t%vo bulls feeding, and also eight cows, 
three young bulls, and two yearling heifers which were not feeding, but which 
got cake ; and also two or three in-calving heifers not feeding ? — A. Yes. 
Q. Did they get cake ? — A. They got a little cake. 
Mr. Melloe : Now at Airmyn Pastures how many feeding beasts had you ? 
— A. I think there would be twenty-two feeding beasts there. 
Q. Where there any others that had cake besides the twenty-two ? — A. No, 
There were some animals that had not cake that morning — they did not get 
cake. 
Q. What breed were the twenty-two ? — A. They were similar — what we 
call the Shorthorn breed. They were animals purchased for feeding ; three 
steers and two or three drapes. They were all feeding animals. 
Q. What is your system with regard to feeding with cake at Booth Ferry? 
— A. They generally give them about seven pounds of cake a day each. At 
least, that is the quantity I expect them to get. I do not see them fed. 
Q. What time of the year do you begin to feed with cake? — A. As soon as 
ever we put the beasts up. 
Q. When is that — the first week in October ? — A. It varies ; sometimes it 
is a little later in October; last year it was about the first week in Octolier. 
Q. Up to February, in the present year, had the beasts been fed with cake, 
both at the Booth Ferry and Airmyn Pastures from the time they were taken 
up? — A. Yes, they had. 
Q. How had they done on the cake they had? — They had been exceedingly 
well ; and they are as healthy a lot of beasts as any man ever saw. 
Q. In the beginning of February were you out of cake at both farms? — 
A. Yes, we were. 
