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them. I begin to clean thenx out, and I give them straw, and after that I 
feed them with Swede turnips — cut turnips in the beginning of winter, that 
is what they get in the forenoon ; straw and turnips or else potatoes, which- 
ever we are using, sometimes we have potatoes, not always turnips. 
Q. What do you do next Then in the afternoon, about two o'clock, 
I feed them with cake. 
Q. And then after the cake what do you give them? — A. I feed them with 
turnips again. 
Q. How soon after you have given them cake do you give them their feed 
of turnips ? — A. About an hour or so ; when I get round them. 
Q. What quantity of cake has it been your practice to give to the beasts ? 
—A. About 7 lbs. 
Q. You have not charge of the cows have you ? — A. No. 
Q. Spivey has charge of the cows ? — Yes. 
Q. What number of beasts had you on the 16th February ? — A. Twenty- 
five feeding beasts, and thirty altogether ; the others were heifers and bulls. 
Q. How many heifers had you ? — A. Feeding? 
Q. Feeding. — A. We had nineteen bullocks. 
Q. How many heifers had you — you had twenty-fivo feeding beasts, and 
besides that what other feeding animals had you ? — A. Four heifers and a 
bull, that made thirty ; that was my quantity. 
Q. Were they feeding ? — A. No, they were not feeding. 
Q. Had you any more feeding beasts besides the twenty-five ? — A. No. 
Mr. Justice Blackburn : I do not know when they talk about feeding 
beasts, whether it means exclusively oxen, or whether there might not be a 
cow. — A. There were nineteen bullocks, 
Mr. Field : And six heifers ? — A. Yes, 
Q. Out of the twenty-five ? — A. Yes. 
Q. And what had you besides those ? — A. I had four heifers and the bull 
that I had to manage. 
Q. Did those have cake? — A. Yes, but not quite so much. 
Q. What quantity of cake had they ?—A. About half the qunntity the 
others had. 
Q. Do you recollect the ton of cake coming in ? — A. Yes. 
Q. Did you see it come in ? — A. I helped to get it in. 
Q. Did you see where it was deposited ? — A. Yes, 
Mr. Justice Blackburn: When you say that, do you moan yon took it 
from the cart ? — A. Into the chamber out of the waggon. 
Mr. Field : Did you see it broken up ? — A. Yes, I broke it up. 
Q. When? — A. By the steam-engine. 
Q. When ? — A. It was on the 16th, I believe — on the Friday, 
Q. That morning? — A. It was after diimer that I broke it up. 
Q. On the same day that it came in ? — A. No, there Avas a day between. 
Q. Did anything get luixed with it? — No, it could not. 
Mr. Justice Blackburn : Was it all broken up ? — A. Yes, I bipke it all up; 
I thought there was only a small quantity so I bi'oke it up. 
Mr. Field: Was anything mixed with it on your master's premises.?— 
A. Oh, no ; it could not be : it was in a place to itself. 
Q. Now, the same afternoon that you broke it up, did you give it to the 
cattle? — A. Yes. 
Q. How much did you give to them ?—A. About 7 lbs. 
Q. To the twenty-five ?-~A. We allow them about 7 lbs. always. 
Q. To the others?—^. About 3^- or 3 lbs. 
Q. How long after you had given them their cake did you notice tliat there 
was anything amiss with them ?—A. It would be about three-quarters of an 
hour, or perhaps an hour. 
