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Q. You do not dispute that it may be so. — A. It may be so. I only sj^eak 
from my own experience. 
Q. I find you giving a proportion of woody fibre larger than either of the 
other chemists. Did you adopt the same mode of analysis? — A. I do not 
know what mode they did adopt. I adopted the usual mode. 1 believe it 
would be the same, but I do not know for certain. My report is given en- 
tirely independent of anything that they said. 
Q. What is the highest proportion of woody fibre that you will allow in a 
I fairly good .sample of linseed cake. Does it not sometimes go up to the extent 
of 16 or 17 ? — A. It might go as high as 20 perhaps, but I cannot say. 
Q. In your case it goes to 18 ? — A. Yes. 
Jte-etcamined ly Mr. Field. 
Q. "What is the highest you have ever met with yourself ? — A. About 20, 
I think. 
\ Mr. Seymoub : My friend, Mr. Cave, has called my attention to the fact 
that the indigestible or woody fibre includes the ash '? — A. It includes some 
.ash — the ash that remains with it. 
Mr. Seymour : Then you say that you find in good linseed 20 per cent, of 
woody fibre ? — A. I would not call it good linseed as high as that. 
Q. It might be moderately good ? — A. Yes. 
Second Day. 
Mr. JONATHAN MIDGLEY, sworn : examined hy Mr, Mellor. 
Q. Are you a member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in 
practice at Goole ? — A. Yes. 
Q. On the ICth of February were you sent for to Booth Ferry, to see 
Mr. Wells' cattle ?—A. Yes. 
Q. Did you examine the feeding beasts on your arrival, and also the cows ? 
\—A. Yes. 
|: Q. In what state did you find them ? — A. Well, some of them were very 
much tympanatcd — blown up, with shivering of the limbs, — and moaning 
heavily. Some of the feeding beasts were worse than the cows. 
Q. Was one cow dead when you got there ? — A. Yes. 
Q. Did you make a, post mortem examination of that cow.? — A. Y'es, the 
same day. 
Q. Did you take out the stomach, liver, lungs, heart, and kidneys, 
j and place them in a box for the purpose of being sent to Professor Simonds ? , 
— A. Yes, all the intestines. 
f Q. At the time you did this did you notice any appearance of organic 
i disease ? — A. No, there was no appearance of any disease to be seen. 
I Q, Did you make inquiries of Tutty and the other man as to how the 
', animals had been fed at the time ? — A. I did. 
I Q. Besides that what did you do to the dead cow, and what did you do to 
the living animals ? — A. I gave the worst some medicine, and the others I 
let be. 
Q. What medicine did you give them ? — A. I gave linseed oil, 
Q. To how many did you give linseed oil ? — A. Four or five. 
Q. Did you give any direction with regard to the further treatment of 
them ? — A. I gave orders that they were not to have any more cake, 
j Q, Anything else ? — A. !No. 
