Kidd V. Royal Agricultural Society of England. 521 
Q. I know that ; but we are talking of this linseed, and examining it more 
closely. I ask with regard to this linseed, did j-ou find halt'-a-dozen grains of 
oat-husks? — A. Oh, yes, more than half-a-dozen. 
Q. Did you find a dozen ? — A. Well, I have not counted them. 
Q. You spoke of grass and clover-seed. Do j"Ou find those sorts of seeds 
that are not injurious and are not narcotic even in pure linseed ? — A. You 
find, as I mentioned, from 4 to 5 per cent, at most in pure linseed. 
Q. Then what you would call pure linseed is that in which there is 4 to 
5 per cent, of foreign vegetable matters or substances. In that you would 
find specimens of these weeds that you have mentioned? — A. Not in all Of 
;them. Y'^ou do not find such a very great variety. 
; Q. Will you tell me what you do find ? — A. Yow will find a few seeds, such 
as grass seeds. 
Q. Do not you find Polygonum — knot-grass? — A. Xes. 
Q. Chenopodium and dodder seed ? — Y'^es. 
Q. And the Lolium tcmnlentumf — A. Y'es, occasionally. 
Q. Do not you find it in Calcutta seed of the purest brand? — A. No; 
generally in St. Petersburg. 
Q. Oh ! generally in Black Sea ? — A. Yes. 
Q. But in both do not you find it ? — A. I dare say it is found. 
Q. Taking what you found, can you tell the Jury the proportion it bears in 
the cake ? — A. It is impossible to determine that ; I can only form a judg- 
ment from the general appearance of the cake. 
Q. Yon cannot form an estimate of the proportion it bore to the cake itself? 
f — A. No, I cannot. I can only infer that it was a large proportion, as there 
was not much linseed. If there had been much linseed in the cake, the cake 
would have become gelatinous with water, which it did not. 
Q. But by your test you were not able to discover sesame in the cake? — 
'A. No ; I dare say there are a great many things which I am not able ta 
5nd in the cakes ; they are so finely ground now that it is almost impos- 
sible to say what may not be mixed in those compound cakes. 
Q. You spoke of the linseed being whole — whole seeds of linseed ? — A. Yes. 
Q. Do not you see that even in the pure linseed-cakes ? — A. Not generally 
:o such a large extent. 
Q. I will show you a cake of absolutely pure linseed, doubly and trebly 
screened (handing the same to the witness) ? — A. Yes ; this looks a good 
;ake. 
' Q. Well, assuming that to be, what I undertake, if necessary, to prove, 
varranted pure, do not you find those whole seeds about it — break a bit ofif ? 
—A. Yes ; I find them — it is not usual. 
Q. But you find the same condition of matters in the cake j-ou have just 
iroken ? — A. Oh, yes ; I have found it out so in Bombay cake. 
Q. Then in Bombay pure cake you do find pure linseed in a whole condition, 
containing whole seeds ? — A. You do occasionally, but not as a rule. 
Q. There you would not infer from the presence of linseed that it was done 
0 deceive the eye of the farmer? — A. No ; I would not. 
Q. The uncrushed linseed retains the oil, and therefore it would be to the 
nterest of the crusher not to waste it? — A. Quite so. 
Q. I take it of course that the moisture and woody fibre, and the mineral 
natter — the ash in the linseed — have nothing to do with the fattening or 
lesh-giving qualities of the cake ? — A. No. 
Q. I have been looking here at the result of your proportions, and I find 
rst oil; I presume that is an important element in the cake? — A. It is an 
uportant element. 
Q. Then albuminous compounds ? 
[A copy of the analysis was here handed to the Judge.] 
