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Mr. Seymour : But they took to the fresh cake too although they did not 
like it at first? — A. Yes, I mixed it with chopping. 
Q. They had been eating chopping and then you mixed it with cake and 
they took it 1—A. Yes. 
Q. And it did them good ? — A. Well, that I cannot say. 
Mr. Justice Blackburn : How do you generally give them the cake — with 
chopping or raw ? — A. The first thing in the morning by itself. 
Q. This cake in question the sheep would not eat ? — A. No. 
Q. Then you mixed it with chopping and they did eat it ? — A. Yes, part 
of it. 
Q. Then with the new cake afterwards, did they eat that without the chop- 
ping ? — A. No, they ate it with chopping afterwards, but not by itself. 
Q. I mean not the five tons but what came afterwards — did they eat that 
with chopping or by itself? — A. Yes, they ate that by itself. 
John Hepton deposed to fetching a ton of cake from a truck in the ware- 
house at Goole Station to Airmyn Pastures Farm. 
Thomas Buttle deposed to fetching another ton from Goole Station to 
Booth Ferry. 
Watkin Williams Winn, Station-master at Goole, proved the arrival of a 
waggon from Wilmington, containing the cake for Mr. Wells, and that the cake 
was in the same condition when delivered as it was when received. 
William Copeland, Station-master at Wilmington, proved the loading of 
the waggon with cake and that, before loading, the waggon was swept out and 
bedded with clean straw. 
George Simpson, clerk to Mr. AVells, said that on the night the cow died, 
he got a sample of the cake from the cake house, packed the sample in a 
washed guano bag and addressed it to Dr. Voelcker. Some time in March he 
sent to London another parcel of the cake from Airmyn Pastures, and after- 
wards sent a third parcel. 
Henry Smith Esq., of Eske Hall, Durham, a magistrate for the county of 
Durham, was called to show that the system of feeding, adopted by Mr. Wells, 
was a proper and suitable one, but his evidence was objected to by Mr. 
"^lymour. 
Dr. AUGUSTUS VOELCKER sworn : examined by Mr. Field. 
Q. What are you Dr. Voelcker ? — A. I am a Doctor of Philosophy. 
Q. And Chemist? — A. And analytical Chemist— Professor of Chemistry. 
Q. How many years have you been practising as a Chemist ? — A. I was for 
burteen years Professor of Chemistry in the Royal Agricultural College of 
jirencester, and for 15 years have been Consulting Chemist to the Koyal 
Agricultural Society, and I am a Fellow of the Royal Society. 
Q. In your capacity of Consulting Chemist are you in the habit of receiving 
'or examination a considerable number of samples every year of linseed or so- 
lalled linsced-cake ? — A. Yes, a great many — usually from between 150 to 200 
amples in the course of the year. 
Q. And do you analyse what is sent to you ? — A. Yes, I do. 
Q. What is the linseed-cake made from ? — A. Linseed-cake ought to be 
lotliing else but the expressed linseed — the pressed cake — linseed after the 
il is expressed ; but what linseed-cake really is, as it is sold, that is another 
uestion. 
Q. We will go step by step. Does the linseed-cake, so expressed, contain, 
'hen it is genuine, any admixture of foreign seeds, and if so, what is the 
rdinary admixture of foreign seeds in the linseed that is so the result of the 
^pressing ? — A. Pure linseed ought not to contain more than from four to 
vc per cent, of foreign seeds. It sometimes contains less, but the best pure 
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