512 Kidd V. Royal Agricultural Society of England. 
Q. What was the next meal you gave them after giving them the cake ? — 
A. Swede turnips. 
Q. Swede turnips again ? — A, Yes. 
Q. How long after the cake ? — A. About twelve o'clock — ^just dinner-time. 
Q. Of the five tons that came on the 8th February, how much cake did you 
give of that quantity — how much to each beast per day ? — A. About three 
pounds. 
Q. Did you give them anything else beside the tiunips ? — A, Swede turnips 
and straw. 
Q. When did you give them the straw ? — A. We bedded them mth it 
regularly. It came from the machine — they could eat it when they liked. 
Q. Could they eat it at any time in the day ? — A. Yes. 
Q. Did you mix anything with the cake, or give them the cake without? 
— A. Very often a little oat-chopping. 
Q. What quantity of oat-chopping did you mix with three poiinds of cake? 
— A. Well, I cannot say ; I put the bit in a corn-scuttle. 
Q. About how much ? — A. I am sure I cannot tell — perhaps half a peck, 
or nearly a peck. 
Cross-examined by Mr. Seymoub. 
Q. Had you been without cake at Sancton ? — A. Yes. 
Q. How long ? — A. I am sure I do not know — ten days or better perhaps 
— between ten daj'^s and a fortnight. 
Q. And then you gave daily three pounds of cake ? — A. Yes. 
GEOEGE WELBURN sworn : examined hy Mr. Field. 
Q. Are you a shepherd at Sancton ? — A. Yes. 
Q. Do you recollect this cake coming in ? — A. Yes. 
Q. Did you give some of it to the sheep? — A. Yes. 
Q. What did they say to it? — A. They would not have it. 
Cross-examined hy Mr. Seymour. 
Q. What had they been having — I suppose they did not like it so mucli as 
what they had been having ? — A. Xo. 
Q. What was it they had been having ? — A. Cake. 
Q. But you had been out of cake ? — A. Yes. 
Q. For ten days they had not been having cake ? — A. They had not. 
Q. What had they been having ? — A. Chopping and turnips. 
Q. And they preferred the turnips ? — Very well. 
Ee-examined hy Mr. Field. 
Mr. Field : Had you been in the habit of feeding the sheep ^with cake ?— 
A. Yes. 
Q. And when you got fresh cake in, did they eat that? — A. No. 
Q. Not this one afterwards ? — A. No. 
Mr. Justice Blackburn : Did they refuse to take it as before or did you not 
ofi"er it to them ? — A. Yes, we gave it to them and they imt it into their 
mouths and put it out. 
Q. Not merely these five tons of February, but they afterwards got freah 
cake ? — A. Yes, they ate that. 
Mr. Field : How many days had you been without cake before the freA 
cake came in ? — A. Ten days, or from that to a fortnight. 
Q. And then you had fresh cake in ? — A. Yes. 
^. Did they eat that?— ^. Yes. 
