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mould, wliich can be easily nibbed oft", is poisonous ; but if the mould 
penetrates thoroughly the cake, I should uot like to give it to my cattle. 
Q. But the mouldy cake has been ground up and mixed with the other 
cake? — A. Yes. 
Q. Tell me also with regard to the sesame-cake ; that is ordinarily sold as 
cake ? — A. Sesame is sold as cake to manufacturers. I do not think there is 
one farmer in a thousand who knows what sesame-cake is, because it never 
reaches his hands. It is all used in the manufacture of linseed-cake. I know 
• the cake very well. Here is a specimen of it. 
; Q. Mr. Ayre told us that the sesame itself goes to make salad oil ? — A. Yes, 
jand a very sweet oil it is too. The sesame-cake is good feeding cake, too, if it 
lis in good condition. 
} Q. Then the crushers hero buy it, aud mix it with the linseed cake.? — 
A. It is manufiictured iuto linseed-cake. There are a good many foreign 
[cakes which never reach the farmer, and which are not known to him. They 
are all manufactured into linseed-cakes, and unfortunately some of these cakes 
■ qet damaged during the passage to this country ; they get sea-damaged, or they 
lieat, and then they become spoiled and unfit for food. Well, then they are 
bought up at cheap prices by the cake manufacturers — the manufactm-ers of 
mixed cake — and frequently they do harm. 
Mr. Seymour : You are not here to make a speech against manufacturers. 
; Mr, Field : Have you examined this particular cake ? — A, Yes, I did 
;3xamine it. 
j Mr. Justice Blackburn : The sample in the bag ? — A. The sample in the 
ibag. 
Q. Did you make an analysis of it ? — A. Yes. 
! Mr. Field : And did you also make a microscopical examination of it ? — 
'4. Yes. 
Q. Did you do that by yourself, or with the assistance of anybody else — in. 
he first instance.? I mean that particular sample.? — A. The analysis by 
nicroscopical examination I did myself, but in the chemical analysis I was 
assisted. 
Q. By your own assistant ? — A. Yes. 
Q. Not with any other chemist ? — A. No, it was done in my presence. 
Mr. Seymouk : You are now speaking of what took place before the libel 
ivas published — not afterwards ? 
' Mr. Field : Yes. (To the Witness) Tell me what you found upon analysis 
hat this cake consisted of? — A. I found in the first examination — I did not 
ind at once the sesame'-cake — that it was anything but genuine linseed- 
ake. 
i Mr. Justice Blackburn : Tell us what you did find ? — A. I found in it a 
Teat variety of weed seeds, amongst which I may mention the following : 
(jolium temulentum, grass seeds, and spurry seeds, which is very common 
|a linseed — Chenopodium. This is a copy of the notes I made at tlie time. 
''hen I found bran and barley husks, oat husks, rice husks, rye and tail wheat, 
ome whole grains — then a very common weed amongst linseed — knot-grass 
Polygonum aviculare), biud-weed {Polygonum convolvulus), then some few 
aillet seeds, wild mustard or charlock, dodder seed ; then I found a few 
lusks of cotton seeds and cocoa-nut, and some other material, but I could not 
pake out what it was, but which I have since found is sesame-cake. In fact, 
; was mentioned to me that it might contain sesame, and then I looked for 
: and found it ; I could not find it before. 
I Mr. Field : You have spoken of cocoa-nut-cake and rice dust ? — A. Rice 
•usks ; it comes to the same thing. 
Q. Are those things that belong to linseed at all ? — A. No, they do not 
elong to linseed. 
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