658 Kidd V. Royal Agricultural Society of England. 
Kidd admitted, that no care, or precaution, or providence whatever, can preve 
linseed from being more or less affected with such trifling impurities as 
microscoi^e will detect. Then with regard to the other components, th 
were some mucilaginous particles which one of the Professors told you 
found, the little nodules or lumps that you will remember. Well as to t 
Mr. Kidd told yoa that the lads who are paring the cakes in order that th 
may be more convenient as articles of commerce, and to guard against was 
throw the parings under the stones, where they are crushed, and in some w 
or other, not being reduced to the same consistency as the rest of the m 
around them, they get into lumps, and so he accounts for the appearance 
these little nodules in the cake. I think you will accept that as the undoub 
solution of that matter. 
Then another gentleman, abounding in his discoveries, thinking perhaps 
has almost found a new world, actually discovers bran in the cake 1 I wi 
him joy of it. If he had only waited a little longer until our case was fu 
gone into, it would have told him that bran was a large element (and y 
l)robably will not think a great deal of the analysis that did not tind a 
bran), that it was in a proportion of something like 20 per cent, of the who 
Well, then, we had a theory that there was some proportion of cotton-ca 
found in the sample that was tested. Now do you recollect Mr. Kidd and 
two bottles of oil ? Because that was one of those pieces of evidence whi 
let in a great deal of light upon the truth of a case like this. The idea 
cotton-cake being allowed, even by chance, to mix with linseed in 
crushing of that seed for the production of oil in Mr. Kidd's mill, is demo 
strated as an absurdity ; because there you had the clear, yellow, pellucid oil in t 
one phial, which is the valuable article of commerce ; and in the other yo 
have the dark-coloured, ugly-looking oil, which is produced from the cotto 
seed. Do you think it likely that a man who makes his profit from thi 
oil — because it is not the 5s. upon the 101. per ton which he gets out of th 
cake that has led him to put up all this machinery and to establish all th 
worlis, but the far more valuable and profitable j^urpose of extracting the 
— do you think that for the paltry advantage of this 5s. per ton upon this oak 
he would run the risk of destroying his oil by mixing the dark properti 
of the cotton-cake with the bright product of the linseed ? Well, I think 
have said enough to dispose of that. 
Then there are a few wheat and oat grains found. Well, Gentlemen, 
bran is used in the cake, and it is carried in sacks to the mill, 1 daresay yo 
will find a few grains of wheat and oats by microscopical examination, 
that it comes to this, that when you come to analyse this cake you get resul 
of this most infinitesimal character, which are gravely put to you as elemen 
of adulteration. 
Then we have another theory. What is the only element which, with a 
their botanical knowledge. Professor Way, who is no small authority o 
matters connected with botany or science, a gentleman connected with th 
Agricultural Society for years, and whose name at all events \vas familiar 
me when he was called into the witness-box, you have the learned Dr 
Voelcker, you have Professors Tuson and Fairley, and other gentlem 
called here, and what is the only element deleterious in any sense in i 
composition which they can find? It is the darnel — to what extent do yo 
find it? A few grains. What is the injurious character of darnel ? Wha 
makes it poisonous or injurious? It is supposed to be a narcotic; therefore, 
because you find there a little seed, a quantity of which if in a large pro- 
jjortiou might be disposed i)erhaps to operate as a narcotic — because you tind 
that one element which is the only poisonous foreign substance in any sense 
which chemical analysis or microscopic test can reveal to your eye, or. discover 
by any process of examination, it is put forward as a justification of tiiis libel. 
