608 Kidd v. Royal Agricultural Society of Enyland. 
Cross-examined by Mr. Field. 
Q. What time in the day did you give it your cows ? — A. I gave it in the 
morning. 
Q. What time in the morning ? — A. About 7 o'clock ; between 6 and 7. 
Q. What did you give them with it? — A. We gave them bran to milk 
with. 
Q. How much bran? — A. Just a little, perhaps 2 or 3 lbs. ; just a little to 
milk with. 
Q. Did you mix that with the cake? — A. No. 
Q. Then you gave them the bran and the cake almost together ? — A. Yes, 
we gave them the cake soon afterwards. 
Q. How soon after the bran did they get the cake ? — A. About half-an- 
hour afterwards. . 
GEORGE WILLIAM SMITH, sworn : examined hj Mr. Cave. 
Q. Do you manage your father's business ? — A. Yes. 
Q. And is he a cowkeeper ? — A. Yes. 
Q. Do you remember getting a bag of linseed-cake from Mr. Sjietch and 
Mr. fSteveuson ? — A. 1 do. 
Q. How many cows do you keep ? — A. Six. 
Q. Did you give the cake to your cows? — A. Yes. 
Q. How much did you give them ? — A. About a cake among six. 
Q. Did you go on giving it them till it was all gone ? — A. Yes. 
Q. Did they appear to do well upon it ? — A. Yes. 
Mr. Field : I have nothing to ask him. 
Mr. HORNBY, sworn: examined hy Mr. Seymoue. 
Mr. Justice Blackburn : They are not cross-examining. I suppose the 
other cowmen will say much the same. 
Mr. Seymour : 1'hat was my reason, but still, as I gave the names — 
/ Mr. Justice Blackburn : I do not know that there is any harm in calling 
him ; but, at the .same time, I do not know that there is any good. 
Mr. Seymour (to the Witness) : Are you also a cowkeeper, and did you get 
some of it and give it to your cows? — A. Yes. 
Q. Did it acirce with them ? — A. Yl'S, I wish I had some more. 
Q. How many cows did you give it to? — A. Three. 
Q. What lime of day ? — A. At night. 
Q. Did you mix anything with itV — No. 
Q. What had they had just before ? — A. I gave them a bit bf bran. 
Q. How much bran ? — A. About half-a-peck apiece. 
Q. And did you continue giving it, while it lasted, from day to day? — 
A. Yes, I did about a fortnight. 
Q. And never saw anything in them the worse for it ? — No, they were the 
better for it. * 
Mr. GEORGE HOLMES, sworn: examined by Mr. Seymour. 
Q. Are you a member of the Ro\al College of Veterinary Surgeons?— 
A. I am. 
Q. And have you practised your profession as a veterinary surgeon for.raany 
years ? — A. I have. 
Q. For some years, T think, you were abroad in India? — A. Yes. 
Q. Attached to ? — A. To IMessrs. Cooke and Comiwny, as well as to 
the Body Guard of India. 
