516 Kidd V. Royal Agricultural Society of England. 
Q. They do not grow with the hnseed ? — A. No, they do not. I inf< 
from their presence this. I may say I do not think the cake is mLxc 
purjwsely with these materials, but I found them in it, and it is most hkcl 
they occur in the general sweepings of the warehouses from which the? 
materials are generally gathered. 
Mr. Justice Blackburn: You have mentioned finding all these, but yo 
have given us no mention of the proportions ? — A. No, my Lord, I could nc 
possibly determine what proportions they occur in. I only know by thei 
number that there is probably a large proportion of them. 
Mr. Field : And besides those that you were able to detect in examinatior 
if they had been crushed up with the rest of the cake you would not be abl 
to discover them ? — A. That is quite certain. 
Q. In your judgment, from the examination you made of that cake; wh& 
was the cake composed of? — A. Well, it appeared to me that the cake wf 
composed of sesame-cake and bran, and general warehouse sweepings, wi 
some linseed, which had been very imperfectly crushed. I found a la- 
proportion, as far as I could judge by the eye, of uncrushed linseeds than 
any really pure linseed-cake. And I may mention 
Q. Before I go to the mode of manufacturing cake, have you anything m 
to say about the elements of which the cake was composed ? — A. Not' 
more. 
Q. Were you able to detect in the cake any positively poisonous matter ? 
A. No, I was not; except some of those poisonous seeds which I h' 
mentioned before. 
Q. Now tell me with regard to the mode of manufacturing the cake, 
said just now that you found whole linseeds that had not had (he oil crush 
out of them? — A. Yes, and in a much larger proportion, as far as I cO'"" 
judge by the eye, than in pure linseed-cake. 
Q. The oil, of course, is the profit of the oil crusher. What would 
indicate if he leaves seeds with the oil in them ? — A. Well, it is done for 
purpose 
Mr. Seymour : Really, I must object to that. 
Mr. Justice Blackdurn : It is an inference he may draw from it, and y( 
may ask a man of skill instead of leaving the Jury and myself to draw it. 
The Witness : It is done for the purpose of giving the mixture of sesa" 
and bran and other materials the appearance of linseed-cake, that is tl 
ostensible reason. It is just like in the manufacture of bone super-phosphatt 
throwing into the dissolved coprolites a few whole bits of bone, and the farm 
sees the bone and thinks it is really nothing but dissolved bones. It is 
analogous case. 
Q. Did you find the cake agglutinated in globules or fragments.? — A 
found some little liits of hard nodules. 
Q. What did they indicate ? — A. It shows that there are some materif 
mixed up and ground with it, and that it is not a genuine linseed-cake. 
Mr. Justice I5lackbuen : How docs it show that ? Explain, how do t 
nodules show that ? — A. If the cake were crushed from mere linseed, y 
would not find those separated specks or nodules in the cake, but you woi 
find it of a more uniform character. 
Mr. Field : What is the process by which the oil is expelled from 1 
linseed ? — A. The linseed is first crushed, and then ground under rollers, 
then pressed. 
Q. All the oil is pressed out of it? — A. The greater portion of the oil 
pressed out. 
Q. And the linseed is left as the residuum ? — A. The linseed-cake is left 
the residuum. _ 
Q. Have you given us the result of your microscopical examination, ai v 
