Kidd V. Royal Agricultural Society of England. 617 
I affect them in the same way V — A. The animal might not be in that particular 
state of health which it was in previonsly. There is a peculiar idiosyncrasy, 
,as Professor Simonds said, about animals that we are not able to understand. 
I Q. Answer my question — Does it alter your opinion if they were accus- 
[tomed to the food, and then were without the food for a sijnilar or longer 
jieriod of time afterwards, and then to have taken their feed of cake and to 
have suffered no haim from it, does that alter your opinion as to the cause of 
;their illness? — A. No, it might, or it might not. 
Q. Why not, if the same conditions existed on the subsequent occasion as 
on the IGth of February? — Why did not the animals "indigest" then and 
blow up, and get ill and die ? — A. I cannot tell you that, but they are not 
always in the same state of health. 
He-examined hy Mr. Setmoue. 
Q. Miglit not purging and treatment, and the care they had received for 
days previously, alter their susceptibility on the second occasion? — A. It 
, would on that occasion, I believe. 
, Q. But, without theorizing or speculating as to the second occasion, from all 
that you have heard in this case, do you attribute the death of this cow and 
the injury to these cattle on the first occasion to tympanitis pi-oduced by the 
change of food? — A. I do. 
Mr. WILLIAM BEOUGHTON, sworn : examined hy Mr. Seymour. 
Q. Are you a veterinary surgeon practising in Leeds ? — A. I am. 
Q. Have you had considerable experience in this neighbourhood and the 
Isurrounding counties ? — A. I have. 
Q. And among horned cattle chiefly ? — A. Yes. 
Q. Have you professionally attended many cases of tympanitis in grazing 
:attle, and also in stall-fed cattle ? — A. I have. 
Q. Have you foimd over-feeding, feeding too greedily, and alteration of 
food?— ^. Yes. 
Q. In the alteration of food which class, those out to grass or those stall- 
ifed, are most disposed to si\ffer by the variation ? — A. Stall-fed ones. 
' Q. And which are more liable, the common or the higher breeds.? — A. The 
higher bred are more liable. 
Q. Have you heard the evidence in this case? — A. I have. 
Q. Bringing your experience to bear on the matter, and exercising the Ijest 
)f your judgment, what, in your opinion, was the cause of the death of the 
f;ow, and of the illness of the other cattle ? — A. Indigestion, from change of 
'iiet partaken of in too large a quantity. 
, Q. Taking the interval of either a week or ten days since these short-horned 
cattle had been fed on linseed-cake, giving them even the purest linseed-cakc 
|;o the extent of 7 lbs. after that interval, was that a safe or prudent course ? — 
A. It was not a safe course, it was too large a quantity. 
Q. And, as a practical man, without dealing in theories, is that sufficient 
po account for the death in this case ? — A. It is. 
Cross-examined hy Mr. Field. 
Q. Six pounds of cake, after the absence of it for six days, is too large a 
jiuantity of cake to give ? — A. Yes. 
I Q. The same beast having had 6 lbs. from October downwards? — A. Yes, 
here being an interval. 
' Q. Of six days ? — A. Yes, it was too large a quantity, 1 think. 
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