Kidd V, Royal Agricultural Society of England. 643 
irawn between them, therefore, that amounts to an assertion to everybody who 
•eceived that circnlar, that it was a compound cake. Why, Gentlemen, loolc 
it the next "A. C. Best, 10?.," the same price (which you l^now is made another 
i:est) as the " Triangle Best." That is over the " t;enuine quality." Therefore, 
j[ suppose he would say that was a genuine quality, the price being identically 
,,he same; and clearly no one who took up that circular would have the 
l.mallest notion that the words "ordinary," "genuine"' and "pure" governed 
hat which was purposely placed above it instead of under it. Had those 
vords "ordinary" "genuine" and "pure" been in large print and had those 
)ther things been underneath, then one might have understood it perfectly 
■veil, but I say it is a carefully prepared circular for the very purpose of avoid- 
'ng that. And then, you know. Gentlemen, Mr. Ayre comes and says "I 
'uade this an-angement. I did it because it w-asabad thing which the farmers 
irere getting — they were getting cake which was not uniform — and I thought 
! should like to have an uniform cake and put into that unifonu cake bran 
which the farmer was to buy at 10?. per ton, when he might get it from his 
'\vn miller ground from his own wheat) and sesam6-cake at 10?. per ton also; 
■1 that was to be the uniform thing wiiich would please the farmer a great 
I better, and I always told everybody with whom I came into contact what 
us thing was. I told all the dealers. I was most anxious. We were doing a 
ouncing trade. It was a great thing, and I invariably told everybodj' what it 
l as they were buying." Well, I said to him, "Did you tell it to everybody? 
|[ave you anybody here to whom you did tell it ?" — " Oh, yes, I have Mr. Hope 
[ad Mr. Glover here, and I told a great many other people besides." I asked 
!im, " Whom have you got here ?" Ho said, " We have got Mr. Hope and Mr. 
lover, and I told them what it was made of and all about it." Accordingly, 
'e called those two gentlemen this morning ; Mr. Hope of Hexham was the 
lest, and Mr. Glover of Warwick was called afterwards. I then said to him, 
But besides that, as you told all this to everybody, did you ever put it in 
riting and send it to anybody at any time in any circular?" "No, never." 
.'ell, but you know, it would have been a comfort, of course, to one's mind — 
would have eased one's mind, if you could have found Mr. Ayre putting this 
I print — in black and white, so that there should be no mistake about it — he 
las doing this bouncing trade, sending out these circulars, published every 
eek, and if he had put this in writing neither the Society nor I who represent 
lem, could have said a word about it. But he says "Xo, I never put it in 
riting ; but I said it verbally to everybody, and there are two persons here who 
rXW vouch for me." Nobody else is called but these two persons, and they are 
>'o persons in the trade who have been dealing ^vith Mr. Ayre for the last 
•e or six years, and neither of whom confirmed him as to the account he 
ve. And, Gentlemen, when 3'ou come by and by, as you will have to do, 
weigh Mr. Ayre and Mr. H. H. Ayre in the scales against Mr. Wells, I ask 
lu also to take into your consideration this — that Mr. Ayre told me last night 
j: had disclosed the nature and composition of this cake to these two gentlemen ; 
Id now let me tell you what these two gentlemen say he did disclose. He 
'ys, you know, he told them there was 50 per cent, of these other materials 
this cake, but Mr. Hope says, " He introduced to my notice five years ago 
j3t linseed-cake and told me that linseed as imported is often full of dodder 
id weeds and that by sifting it (all which Mr. Ayre did not say a word 
out) and adding bran it would make a good wholesome cake and be likely 
give more satisfaction than the so-called genuine linseed-cake." It is not 
Jtended that the linseed is sifted for this cake — it is the genuine cake 
lich is not sifted — 
Mr. Justice Blackburn : You arc not quite accurate. Tlie witness who 
's called this morning — the last witness Logdon— said it was sifted, but not 
much. 
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