518 Kidd V, Royal Agricultural Society of England. 
Q. The Airmyn Pastures sample, and the sample which Mr. Wells sent 
you are practically identical ? — A. Practically identical. 
Mr. Justice Blackburn: Trying them by chemical analysis or as shown 
■by the microscope ? — A. We examined them by the microscope and I also 
determined by way of check the amount of albuminous matter and that did 
■not differ very materially from the broken cake — it was rather richer in 
initrogen, but essentially the same. 
Mr. Field : Have you got there the analysis that you made on that occasion 
of each cake ? — A. Yes I have. 
Q. Do they substantially agree ? — A. Substantially they are the same, the 
two together. 
Mr. Seymour : I would like to know whether the three were the same. 
Mr. Field : I will come to that — do you wish to have this analysis put in, 
on the 16th July ? 
Mr. Justice Blackburn : No doubt it is desirable to know what was the 
analysis which was taken afterwards, on the 16th Julj-, so as to comjjare the 
two. 
Mr. Field: Eead your analysis of the 16th July ?— ^. On the 16th July 
I only made a microscopical examination. 
Q. No chemical examination ? — A. No. 
After .some discussion between the judge and the counsel as to the documents 
to which the witness was referring, Mr. Field handed to the witness his 
original Report to Mr. Wells, 2nd March, which was read by 
The Associate as follows : — 
Dear Sir, — I have submitted the cake which you sent me a short time ago, 
both to chemical analysis and to a microscopical examination, and enclose the 
results obtained in the analysis which however does not throw any light on the 
subject of the inquiry. The examination under the microscope on the other hand 
enables me to say that the cake which you sent me is not a genuine linseed-cake ; 
for in addition to a number of small weed seeds such as the seeds of the Chenopo- 
dium. Polygonum aviculare, wild mustard, clover seeds, the seeds of the LoUum 
temulentum (drunken darnel), grass seeds, and other small seeds usually found 
in dirty linseed, I find in the cake, cotton seed husks, cocoa-nut-cal<e, rice dust, 
millet seeds, bran, and broken wheat. It appears to me to be made from dirty 
linseed containing the sweefiings of granaries or seed warehouses, and unques- 
tionably is not a genuine linseed cake. At the same time I am bound to say 
that I have been unable to detect in the cake any positively jooisonous matter;! 
can, however, readily conceive that a linseed cake which is made, as most probably 
the cake you sent me is, from linseed or the sweepings of seed warehouses, may do 
serious injury to stock, for it is not at all unlikely that in such sweepings there 
may be injurious seeds, the injurious properties of which can only be detected 
by the eflbcts they produce when calse containing these extraneous matters is 
given to cattle. 
Mr. Field : That is the result you arrived at from the microscopical 
examination on the 2nd March ? — A. On the 2nd March. 
Q. Have you read the analysis which that contained '! — A. Yes. 
Mr. Justice Blackburn : What I understood to be read was the analysis 
made on the 2nd March : give us the copy of the analysis which was contained 
in that, and wo shall see at once. Hand to him what you say was the 
original analysis enclosed. (A document was handed to the Witness) ?— A. 
This is it. 
Q. Is that the analysis which you enclosed in your letter to Mr. Wells?— 
A. Yes. 
Q. And is that the same document which you read just now? — A. It is. 
Mr. Field : Is that all you did on the 2nd of March ? — A. That is -all. 
Q. Was tho 16tli of July the next time you made an analysis? — A. Yes. 
