Kidd V. Royal Agricultural Society of England, 503 
Q. Tell us, iu your own way, what it was you saw?— ^. Well, I started to 
feed them again after that. 
Q. With potatoes ? — A. With potatoes, and I had got half a dozen of them 
fed (they stand three together) ; and the next that I came to was blown up 
like a bladder fit to burst. 
Mr. Justice Blackbubn : Did you say you had fed two lots of three — six 
beasts? — A. Yes. 
Mr. Field : Go on ; tell us what you saw ? — A. The next beast, the 
eighth beast, was not so much blown up, but he was standing shivering and 
shaking, as if he was going to die, and I could not tell what was amiss with 
him. I got them some oil — some fish-oil — and gave it them ; and I was stood 
\ with my hand in the mouth of that one that was blown up so bad, making 
! him stir his tongue, so that he would break wind. 
i Q. You gave them fish-oil ? — A. Yes, we always do when there is anything 
i' amiss with them. 
Q. You tried to make him chew his cud? — A. Yes. 
Q. You put your hand into the mouth? — Q. Yes, right into the mouth. 
Q. What happened to the other beasts : give me the general concUtion of 
them ? — A. I was with them awhile, and afterwards I began to examine the 
others, and there were three or four more of them blown up ; and there was 
not one beast but what was afiected ; those that were not blown up stood as if 
they were starved, with their backs up, and the flesh of the thighs of some of 
them shaking and shivering upon their thighs. 
Q. How were tliey affected otherwise ? I do not want to lead you on, but 
were they moaning and distressed ? — A. Yes, in pain. 
Q. That continued, I believe, till Mr. Wells came home in the evening ? — 
A. Yes. 
Q. They took several days to recover, I believe? — A. Yes. 
Q. It was not one of yours that died ; it was one of Spivey's that died ?— ■ 
A, It was one of Spivey's. 
Q. Now I want to ask you, were they purged a good deal ? — A. Yes, 
Q. How long did the purging continue ? — A. I could not exactly say that 
to a day or two ; they were very bad, and the dung was quite black. 
Q. In the evening of the first day did you clear out what was left in their 
troughs.? — A. Yes. 
j Q. How much came away ? — A. About three-quarters of a guano-bag full. 
Q. How much does the guano-bag hold ? — A. About eight stones. 
Q. About six stones, then, it would be? — A. We did not weigh it, not 
then. 
■ Q. Was there anything in the course of feeding, as far as you can judge, 
that accounted for what happened to these cattle, then ? — A. No ; no difference 
; in feeding, not a bit of difference in feeding. 
Q. Can you tell me how long it was before that time that your beasts had ■ 
not had cake ? — A. About ten days. 
Q. When these beasts came in, had they ever had cake before? — A. Before 
we tied them up ? 
Q. Yes. — A. I do not know, I am sure, about that. 
Q. Had they been a long time, at all events, without cake ; did they come 
from grass? — A. Yes, they came from grass, but then we had had them tied 
up, you understand. 
Q. They would be a long time without cake, then ? — A. Yes, very like they 
I never would have had any. 
Q. At that time you gave them 7 lbs. of cake ? — A. Yes. 
Q. After this had happened Mr. Wells gave you orders not to give them 
any more of Mr. Ayre's cake?— J. Yes. 
