Kidd V. Royal Agricultural Society of England. 
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Q. And did you receive the circular that has been put in from Messrs. 
Ayro Brothers ? — A. I received a sample of cake, with a small memorandum 
inside, offering me cake in the latter end of January. 
Q. Was this sent to you (handing a circular to the witness) ? — A. I might 
receive something like that — very likely I should. I have no doubt such a 
thing would come, but it was not in reference to the sample of cake which I 
had. They sent me a circular every week. 
Q. I believe you have mislaid the letter ? — A. I have mislaid the letter. 
I wrote to that effect to Messrs. Ayre. 
Q. Did you order some cake of Ayre Brothers, and were two tons of cake 
sent to Goole Station in consequence of that ; and did you send for them on 
the 15th February '? — A. I made a contract in my letter for a quantity of 
cake, and two tons of that cake were sent by rail to Goole. 
Q. Did you send two waggons to Goole station ? — A. Yes, on the 14th, one 
from Booth Ferry, and on the 15th one from Airmyn Pastures. 
Mr. Seymour : I think it is admitted. 
Mr. Justice Blackbubn : Mr. Ayre says two tons were sent there, and 
therefore it is jirobable they were the same. 
Mr. Mellor : You sent one waggon to take it to Booth Ferry, and the other 
to take it to Airmyn Pastures ? — A. Yes ; but on two separate days — the one 
on the 14th and the other on the 15th. 
Mr. Justice Blackburn : Did they bring equal quantities to each — a ton 
to each '? — A. As near as they could tell. I think the man says the cakes 
were counted ; but they got it as near as they could. 
Mr. Mellor : On the morning of the 16th of February did you go from 
home ? — A. I did. 
Q. What time did you get back to Booth Ferry ? — A. Half-past five — a few 
minutes later perlraps. 
Q. Did you then go to see the feeding beasts? — A. I went immediately 
round the stock. 
Q. What state of things did you find there ? — A. I first went into the cow- 
house and I saw a cow laid dead, two or three others very much distended, 
but a red cow and a white cow in particular ; and the other five (there were 
eight in the cow-house) seemed to be suffering ve.y much. I went from there 
to see the young bulls, and found a young roau bull, a year and a half old, 
suffering very much indeed, and very much distended. The other two not so 
much so, but still showing symptoms of being uneasy. The feeding stock are 
in a different portion of the tarmstead. I went round them. I found two 
white steers and a red steer blown up and distended fearfully ; a four-year-old 
roan heifer suffering very severely, but not so much distended ; all the other 
animals more or less affected. Some of them were shivering in their limbs ; 
some of them had their tongues hanging out. I ordered the man who had 
brought me with the dog-cart to go immediately for the veterinary surgeon, 
Mr. Midgley, of Goole, and also to request John Hutchinson, who is a butcher 
and cow-doctor, to come from the village. 
Q. Did you wait till Mr. Midgley came ? — A. We commenced getting some 
of the beasts out. 
Q. Did you examine the feeding troughs? — A. No, I did not, personally, 
I subsequently requested that all the troughs should be examined, and any 
portions of the cake that might be in them to be taken out. 
Q. Do you know what quantity of cake was found unconsumed in the 
troughs V — A. Well, from the appearance ot the bag — it was not weighed — 
I should say perhaps four stone. It was put in a guano bag. 
Mr. Seymour : Four stones left unconsumed ? — A. I did not see it weighed, 
but according to the best of my judgment. 
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