622 Kidd V. Royal Ac/ricultural Society of England. 
Q. How long have you been at your profession ? — A. I started in 1860. 
Q. And although you cannot at this moment recall the case of A., B. or C, 
can you state from your own knowledge that you have met with such cases? — 
A. Yes, I can scores of such cases. 
Q. Have you taken the usual degree in your profession ? — A. Yes. 
Q. And have you given an opinion based both upon your experience and 
upon yom- reading '? — A. It is from my own experience in fact, that I give it. 
Q. 1 think you have been in practice since 1866 ? — A. Well, I got my 
diploma in 1866, but I was articled before 1866. 
Q. But you have been in practice since 1866 ? — A. I have been in practice 
since 1860. I went as an articled pupil in 1860, and was four years appren- 
ticed to Mr. Lecher of Eipon, and he was in one of the largest practices as a 
veterinary surgeon in the kingdom — in the cattle practice. 
JOHN LOGDON, sworn : examined hy Mr. Seymour. 
Q. Are you in the employ of Mr. Kidd ? — A. Yes. 
Q. And I believe it has been yovu duty to superintend the landing and 
screening of the seed ? — A. Yes. 
Q. When the seed is landed where is it taken to? — A. It goes through a 
screen and upstairs. 
Q. And when you have screened it, what becomes of the screenings ? — A. 
Well, that screen that it goes through picks out the sticks, matting, stones 
and anything of that kind. 
Q. And that is thrown overboard ? — A. Yes. 
Q. And then it is taken upstairs ? — A. Yes. 
Q. We have heard about elevators, and the spout and so on, do you work 
in the room where the bags of the siftings are kept that we heard of yester- 
day?—^. Yes. 
Q. Is it your duty to take the siftings and put them into the bags? — A. 
Yes, I have all control over them. 
Q. Have you control both over the putting them into the bags and sup- 
plying the bags afterwards if they are ordered ? — A. Yes. 
Q. We are told that the bags of siftings are used for mixing with ordinarj' 
cake, can they be used to mix with any other seed without your knowledge ? — 
A. No. 
Q. Do you know the article called " Triangle Best " ? — A. Yes. 
Q. Have you ever known any of the siftings to be used for mixing Avith 
"Triangle Best"?— A No. 
Q. Could that be used without your knowledge? — No. 
Q. Would it be possible for that to get mixed with " Triangle Best " ? — A. 
No. 
Q. Why not ? — A. Because they are not where the seed is, they are down 
away from it altogether. 
Q. When you have the control of the bags and any of thf siftings so 
wanted, what is done with them ? — A. The seed that is mixed with it, the 
best seed, when we have occasion to mix some of these small seeds with that, 
the small seed is down below, and they entirely go into the elevators by 
themselves, and into the bin, so that they cannot get mixed with any other 
seed. 
Q. And when that seed is used for " Triangle seed " how does it go f—A. It 
goes into the elevators, but it is upstairs. 
Q. What is upstairs ? — A. The seed that is used in the " Triangle Best." 
Mr. Justice Blackburn: But is not the seed that is used for the "ordi- 
nary " also upstairs ? — A. The small seeds are not. 
Q. No, but the linseed, if I have understood the former witnesses aright, all 
