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to the microscopic examination on the other hand, it enables me to say 
that the cake which you sent me is not a genuine linseed-cake ; for, in addition 
to a number of small weed-seeds — such as the seeds of the Chenojjodium, 
' Polygonum aviculare, wild-mustard, clover-seeds, the seeds of the Lolium 
temulentum (drunken-darnel), grass-seeds, and other small seeds usually 
found in dirty linseed — I find in the cake cotton-seed husks, cocoa-nut cake, 
rice-dust, millet-seeds, bran, or broken wheat. It appears to me to be made 
from dirty linseed, containing the sweepings of granaries or seed-warehouses, 
and unquestionably is not a genuine linseed-cake. At the same time I am 
bound to say that I have been unable to detect in the cake any positively 
{wisonous matter. I can, however, readily conceive that a linseed-cake which 
is made, as most probably the cake you sent me is, from linseed and the 
sweepings of seed-warehouses, may do serious injury to stock ; for it is not at 
all unlikely that in such sweepings there may be injurious seeds, the injurious 
properties of which can only be detected by the effects they produce when cake 
containing these extraneous matters is given to cattle." Now, gentlemen, 
that was therefore, you see, the distinction that Dr. Voelcker then drew 
between these seeds which may be found in a genuine cake of which no 
complaint was made, and the extraneous matters which he expressly indicates 
by his Eeport (confirmed by Professor Tuson, Mr. Way, and others) he 
found in this cake, and which have no reference whatever to the other. That 
being the state of things, one thing is clear, that the cake in question is not 
a genuine cake ; of com-se it is not a pure cake, that is not pretended. It is a 
compound cake, and there are three respects in which it is now conceded that 
the cake in question is what I venture to call adulterated. First of all Mr. 
Kidd tells us himself that the " Triangle Ordinary " only has 30 per cent., if 
I recollect right, of linseed in it ; so that you start with this. Mr. Kidd has 
been in the habit of selling as linseed-cake a cake containing only 30 per 
cent, of linseed, the remainder being made up of nut-cake to the extent of 50 
1 per cent., and of bran to the extent of the remaining 20. A more remarkable 
admission made by Mr. Kidd, and one I was sorry to hear him make in the 
; box, was this ; he says, further, " In that cake so made I put deliberately 
' the siftings from thcf genuine linseed which come out before the pure cake is 
made ; I do that whenever, in my judgment, I think that the linseed which 
1 am putting into the ' Ordinary Triangle ' is of too good a quality. I then 
deliberately mix with that the siftings which have come out of the pure 
seed." Now, Gentlemen, I said before if Mr. Kidd told the public that he did 
that he would have a right to do it beyond all question ; but did he ever tell 
the public that ? It was never heard of for a moment imtil he gave it him- 
self in cross-examination. None of his circulars in any way show that he 
did anything of the kind, nor do Mr. Ayre's circulars. It is not suggested 
until Mr. Kidd tells it me in the box that anything of the kind ever has 
happened at all, or was disclosed at aU to anybody, not even to Mr. Ayre. 
That is one thing ; that is his way of dealing with the " Ordinary Triangle.", 
Now, with regard to the " Triangle Best," we have again the most remarkable 
thing disclosed, for the first time, in the interrogatories administered in this 
action, namely, that the " Triangle Best," which upon the circulars is called 
" Triangle Best Linseed-cake," which in every invoice, receipt, and letter 
passing between Mr. Ajtc and Mr. Wells is called " best linseed-cake," that 
not only is it not best linseed-cake but that it is not linseed-cake at all, for 
only 50 per cent, of that is linseed, the remaining 50 being composed of 
•sesame-cake and bran. Now you know. Gentlemen, there we start at once 
mth the issue between my friend and myself. I deny that that is best 
I linseed-cake, and I say this, if you find parties are dealing in that way and 
^re putting siftings into linseed whenever they think right in their judgment 
> luauufacturers, not telline the public at all what they are doing, but 
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