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Q. By four screenings and siftings ? — A. Yes. 
Q. VVhere is it that the screening is done ? — A. It is done as 
the linseed comes in, first of all to take away the matting and 
straw. 
Mr. Justice Blackburn : That is not what you were asked. 
It was, Where is it done ? — A. At the mill. 
Mr. Field : What part of the mill is it that the screening 
and sifting is done ? — A. The first screening is at the entrance 
from the river. 
Q. On the first, or ground floor ? — A. Ground floor. 
Q. What is taken out by the first screening ? — A. The seed 
goes through in the first screening, and leaves matting, and bits 
of chip, and so on. 
Q. That is a coarse screening? — A. Yes. 
Q. What is the size of the mesh of the riddle ? — A. Well, I 
may tell you that all seed, for whatever kind of cake it may be, 
goes through that riddle. 
Q. Therefore there is not much in that? — A. No, it is to 
prevent bits of bag from getting through, and so on. 
Q. Where does the next take place ? — A. The elevators take 
the seed up to the top of the mill. 
Q. But I suppose it is discharged from its bags on the ground 
floor ? — A. Yes, or in the lighter. 
Q. In what shape, then, is it taken up to the top of the mill ? 
— A. In a state of nature. 
Q. In what bags? — A. In buckets. 
) Q. Then it is taken up there with all its seeds in it, polygo- 
nums or drunken darnels, or whatever there may be in it, all 
jgoes up there ? — A. Yes, if there are any. 
Q. Is there any seed that comes from the Black Sea without 
them ? — A. I do not think there were any in one of the 
samples. 
I Q. Where did that come from ? — A. From the Black Sea. 
Q. What, without any admixture? — A. Well, 4 per cent, is 
scarcely discernible. 
Q. Then the Calcutta is not so clean as the Black Sea ? — A. 
'It was cleaner in this instance. 
Q. But as a rule it is not ? — Yes, I should think it is now. 
Q. What is the real percentage of seeds in the Calcutta 
linseed ? — A. I should think about 5 per cent, is the average. 
Q. Then with the seed, whatever there may be in it, it goes 
up to the top of the mill ? — A. Yes. 
Q. Do all the siftings go on up there, the three further 
siftings? — A. Yes. 
Q. What is the size of the smallest mesh that is used for 
jsifti g ? — A. Well, I cannot tell you the size ; there is one 
