620 Kidd V. Royal Agricultural Society of England. 
linseed-cake, in your opinion was that a safe or proper treatment ?— J.. It is 
an over-dose, I should call it. 
Q. Can you mention any analogous cases in your own experience? — 
A. Not where cake has been the predisposing cause. 
Q. Well, 1 would rather you gave me something else ? — A. Where bean- 
meal or bran has been administered in improper quantities it is a very 
common cause indeed. 
Cross-examined hy Mr. Field. 
Q. You say 6 lbs. or 7 lbs. is an over-dose ; what quantity might have 
been safely given ? — A. I should have begun with 2 lbs. or 3 lbs. 
Q. 4 lbs ? — A. Probably ; perhaps 4 lbs. 
Q. Perhaps 4^ lbs..? — A. Well, I am not able to judge to 5 a lb. in. the 
weight. 
Q. Well, you would not negative 41 lbs. ? — A. No. 
He-examined by Mr. Seymour. 
Q. But after the interval of a week, would starting with 6 lbs. iu your 
opinion be unsafe ? — A. I think so. 
Q. Would 7 lbs. be still more so ? — A. Oh, certainly. 
Q. And in your opinion, is there sufBcient cause, as a practical man, from 
that of this death without theorising or speculating ? — A. Certainly. 
Mr. WILLIAM FERNLEY, sworn : examined by Mr, Seymour. 
Q. Are you in practice as a veterinary surgeon in Leeds ? — A. Yes. 
Q. Have you heard the evidence given by the gentlemen who have bceu 
in the box before you ? — A. Yes, I have ; part of it. 
Q. You have heard the last two or three witnesses, I believe ? — A. Yes. 
Q. And do you agree with them ? — A. Yes, I do. 
Q. Have you met with cases of tympanitis in your own practice ? — A. Oh, 
a great many ; hundreds of cases. It is a very common thing with cattle. 
Q. Have you known any instances iu which death by tympanitis has 
resulted from change of food '? — A. Oh, yes, it is the commonest thing iu the 
world ; it is the commonest thing with cattle to have tympanitis from cliange 
in food, it does not matter what food it is ; from one field of turnips to 
another will almost do it. 
Q. You say from one field of turnips to another — a change from turnips pro- 
duced by one field to turnips by another? — A. It will sometimes produce it. 
Q. Where there has been a cessation of food for a particular time and then 
the food is given again, have you met with a case where tympanitis has occured 
from the alteration under these circumstances? — A. Oh, yes. 
Q. Within how short a time, — we have heard of from 5 days to a week or 10 
da^'s in this case. Can you tell me in yoiu- experience, within what time you 
have met with it? — A. Perhaps 2 or 3 days : the stomach gets into one groove 
as it were, and if you put it out of that groove by change of food, it does not 
so regularly digest it. 
Q. You have known cases where food having been laid aside for 2 or 3 days, 
and then resumed, tympanitis has set in from the alteration ? — A. Yes. 
Q. Have you known cases in which the new food has been given 6 or 7 
hours after ordinary food ? — A. Yes, I have. 
Q. Have you known tympanitis set in from that cause? — A. Yes, I have. 
Q. Then do you agree that in this case the death and illness of these ani- 
mals is referable to tympanitis, caused by the alteration of food? — A. By the 
simple change of diet. 
