660 Kidd V. Royal Agricultural Society of England. 
yesterda}', was never put through the rollers or under the crushers for tli 
purpose of having the oil expressed from it at all ; but that it was made, an^ 
manipulated, and the various ingredients put together, and forced and cruslit 
together for the purpose of making cake, to deceive the too trustful an 
confiding farmers of Yorkshire ! And upon what did he base that theory 
Why njx>n some absurd notion that the linseed in the cake that he sai 
ought to be horizontal, and was perpendicular. So that because he finds ( 
thinks he finds a larger number of perpendicular than horizontal grains in tli 
cake, this pseudo-philosopher and distinguished analyst, actually propounds 
theory of the blackest character as against my client, one into which ni 
friend does not follow him, one into which the learned professor does nc 
follow him, because Mr. Simonds you know says, "I do not think they wei 
purposely put in," but Mr. Fairley says boldly, " I say this cake was mac 
for the purpose of prepared and premeditated deception, I say Mr. Kidd foun 
it a profitable thing for him to employ his men and his resources t 
manufacture cake of that description, in order to palm it ofif upon the publi 
through Mr. Ayre, and not as the result of the crushing of the .seed for th 
legitimate purpose of expressing the oil, whicli is liis ordinary trade 
Gentlemen, I will venture fo say you will be of opinion that you canui 
accept such a theory as that; and, as 1 said just now, when you find sue 
vague and wild theories, such loose suggestions, such dangerous topii 
thrown out for you to catch at, what conclusion are you to arrive at? Ai 
you to assume wlieu Science confesses that she cannot find a poison, tlu 
you must find it for her ; that when Science says, I am modest, and alfSiou^ 
there is alleged to be something there that killed this cow, I cannot discovi 
■what it was — are you to find it out for her by some wild speculation or theor 
which is put forward for your acceptance, that it must have been caused b 
some deleterious product in the cake, when you have so much evidence on tl 
other side distinctly meeting the suggestions which liave been made ? 
Now let us look at another point which my friend takes. He says. Well, 
there was nothing poisonous which could affect the nerves of tlie rumen > 
the cow itself or the cattle, still there was something there of an irritai 
kind, such as a pin or a needle, there was something in fact which ougl 
not to be there, and which agglomerating together with the rest of the foo( 
produced death or disease amongst these cattle. But where is the cvideii' 
of anything of the sort V It is, after all, but the suggestion of a clever ma 
Of course the very cleverness of my friend and his witnesses enables them 
deal in a variety of suggestions more or less plausible. Let Profess^ 
Simonds have the honour, if you please, of originating the suggestion th 
this cake operated upon the nerves of the rumen in such a manner as 
produce a check to the peristaltic action of the rumen, and that leading 
disorganization and degeneracy in the process of mastication by the anini 
gave rise to fermentation, and ultimately to the predominance of carbon in tl 
blood, and so to death. Well, Professor Simonds may have and hold th 
theory, but recollect it is but theory, after all. It is but philosophy, alter s 
— do not mistake it for fact — it is but an idea thrown out By a clever ma 
But then. Gentlemen, recollect also it is met by evidence on the other sid 
What say you to the positive evidence given to you here to-day ? Observ 
my friend says he disputes that the 8 tons were made on the same day as tl 
sample, and so on ; but 1 am not going to occupy your time by a niinii 
discussion as to the particular day of the week, or whether it was in the d; 
•shift or in the night shift when these things were made. This is wli 
I maintain : that unless you have here a monstrous perjury on (he part 
the witnesses, unless you liave men coming here to deceive and mislead you, yi 
have it proved that in all this " Triangle Best" Linseed-cake sold to Messrs. Ay 
there was a certain compound only used, and a certain care taken, 'I'ak 
