508 Kidd V. Royal Agncultiir al Society of Evglahd. 
Q. And any mangolds? — A. Xo. I did not give them any more mangolds 
till I fetched them in about two o'clock. 
Q. When did you give them mangolds that day ? — A. Pretty near nine 
o'clock. 
Q. How often did you give them mangolds that daj- ? — A. Twice. 
Q. The same mangolds that you tell us of, taken from the shed, that had 
been brought in three or four days before from the heap ? — A. Yes. 
Be-examined ly Mr. Field. 
Q. The mangolds are drawn in October ? — A. Yes. 
Q. And then they are heaped in piles, and then brought some four or' five 
days before you want them in the shed? — A. Yes. 
Q. And you take them from the shed ? — A. Yes. 
Q. Are they thatched over in the piles? — A. Yes. 
Q. Kow tell me how long before you gave them the cake had you fed 
them with chopped clover-hay ? — A. Between eight and nine in the morning. 
Q. How long before you fed them with the cake had you fed them with 
the mangolds ? — A. About an hour or an hour and a half. 
Q. Were they perfectly well when you first gave them the cake?— 
A. Yes. 
Q. Xo symptoms of anything at all ? — A. Xo symptoms of anything 
at all. 
GEORGE CALVERT sworn : examined by Mr. Field. 
Q. Are you farm bailiff to Mr. Wells ? — A. Yes. 
Q. At Airmyn Pastures? — A. Yes. 
Q. How many years have you been his farm bailiff there? — A. Twenty- 
seven. 
Q. What number of beasts is it your practice to stall feed there ? — A. Our 
usual practice is to tie up from sixteen to twenty-three or twenty-four. 
Q. What is your practice with regard to the feeding beasts ? How much 
do they usually get ? — A. Do you mean cake ? 
Q. Yes ? — A. About 7 lbs. per head is the general practice. 
Q. What time of the year are the beasts generally tied up? — A. From 
October to Xovember, and sometimes earlier too. 
Q. What is your course of feeding? What time do you begin in the 
morning, and what is your course of feeding through the day ? — A. We give 
them cake the first thing in the morning. 
Q. About what o'clock do you give them their cake ? — A. About half-past 
six to seven. 
Q. In February and March do you give it so early as that ?— -4. Yes. 
Q. What is the next thing ? — A. We give them either turnips or potatoes. 
Q. When ?—A. At half-past eight. 
Q. How much ? — A. About a bushel, I think. What we call a bushel. 
Q, What is your next operation ? — A. Straw. 
Q. Chopped straw ? — A. Xo. 
Q. Straw to pick over ? — A. Straw to pick over. 
Q. When did you give them that? — A. As soon as they have got the 
turnips eaten. 
Q. What next? — A. Turnips at eleven o'clock. 
Q. The same quantity as in the morning ? — A. Yes. 
Q. What next ? — A. Between three and four, turnips again. 
Q. Is that all they get?— ^. Straw. 
