Kidd V. Royal Agricultural Society of England. 
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Q. And beasts?— ^. Yes. 
Q. Steers ? — A. Not steers. 
Q. Cows? — A. Yes. 
Q. How many cases have you had? — A. I could not enumerate them. 
Q. You have generally practised amongst cows, then, as I understand ? — 
! . I have a general practice. 
Q. Amongst cows and beasts? — A. Well I have most practice amongst 
iiorses, but my practice is a general practice, 
i Q. You talk about indigestion. Do you understand that the ruminatlDg 
'nimals digest the same as a horse does? — A. Yes. 
Q. The same ? — A. Well they digest the same. 
Q. What, with gastric juice? — A. Yes, with gastric juice. 
Q. Is that your idea of it ? — A. Yes. 
Mr. Justice Blackbukn : I do not think you rmderstand the question. 
I You do not mean to say there is no difference between an animal that chews 
the cud and one that does not ? — A. Of course there is. One animal has only 
■ one stomach, and the other has four. 
Mr. Field: Do you mean to say that the process going on within the 
rumen is equivalent to digestion ? — A. Xot at all. 
Q. Well, you used the term " indigestion," that is the reason I asked you ? 
—A. Not at all. 
Q. Then, in your opinion, 5 or 6 lbs. was an over-dose of cake to give? — 
A. I think so. 
Q. Under the circumstances of the case that you have heard with reference 
to all the animals and so on ? — A. I do. 
Mr. JOHN MITCHELL, sworn : examined hy Mr. Seymour. 
Q. Are you a veterinary surgeon in Leeds? — A, The senior veterinary 
ii^eon in Leeds. 
Q. And I believe you have been in practice for something like tliirty years ? 
—A. Above thirty years. 
Q. And are you a Cattle Plague Inspector for twenty-seven divisions ? — 
A. I was appointed by the local authorities. 
Q. Have you had, as a practical man, much experience among short-homed 
cattle and their diseases ? — A. Very much experience indeed. 1 was brought 
up in Bedfordshire, and I had a great amount of practice in Bedfordshire and 
Xorthamptonshire. 
Q. Among short-homed cattle all your life ? — A. Yes. 
Q. Have you had experience also in death or illness from tympanitis ? — ■ 
-1. Many cases. 
Q. Many cases in yotir own practice ? — A. Scores of cases. 
Q. Do you agree with the gentlemen who stood before you in the witness- 
box as to the predisposing causes of tympanitis? — A. I do, in every parti- 
' cular. 
Q. An overcharged stomach and a sudden alteration of diet ? — A. It is a 
very common cause of tympanitis ; a very common cause. 
' A. Do you also agree that stall-fed cattle, and the management of a higher 
breed, renders them more predisposed ? — A. Mismanagement renders them 
more predisposed. 
Q. Have you heard and attended to the evidence in this case.? — A. I 
have. 
Q. In your opinion, what was the cause of the death of that cow? — 
A. Indigestion, produced by an over-dose of food. 
Q. Now, without reference to the quality of the food, suppose, after such 
an interval as there was here, that this cow was given 6 or 7 lbs. of pure 
