662 Kidd V. Royal Agricultural Society of England. 
and you must, therefore, in this case, take care that you do not in any way 
view this case as other than the case of Mr. Kidd, in which the question 
turns upon how far he is shown in the course of tliis inquiry to be unworthy 
your confidence and belief. , I say, siunming it up in one word, that unless 
Mr. Kidd, unless Mr. Stevenson, unless Mr. Logdon, have given you evidence 
which is wilfully false, — there is such care taken in that mill, such 
gathering together, such folding-up, such putting into bags and tying-up of 
these screenings, such keeping of them in a chamber below, and such a 
distinct manipulation of them afterwards, only giving them out for the 
purpose of mixing with the Ordinary cake, and always taking care to dis- 
tinguish that from the " Triangle Best " — that if you are going to come to the 
conclusion that those bags of screenings were taken out, and emptied down that 
hopper, for the purpose of adulterating the ' Triangle Best" cake, which is the 
cake in question, in this case you will take a fearful leap in the dark, and without 
any solid basis supply that which is absolutely wanting in the case of ray 
learned friend ; and you will only supply it when you have trampled upon 
the character of the three witnesses, who have affirmatively sworn to that 
which my friend insinuates cannot possibly be true. 
Well, Gentlemen, but that is not all. There were 8 tons of that cake 
given to these cowkeepers. Is there no value in that ? Surely you wU not 
say so ? One of them, at least, gave a portion of that cake to each of his 
cattle, and it was not a matter of giving it them for one day or one feed, but 
day by day (in one case for a fortnight) ; these cowkeepers fed their cows, and 
they throve upon it. 
Now I will grant it might, perhaps, have been a more startling fact in my 
favour if we had got one of these cowkeepers to say he had given his animals 
7 or 8 lbs. at one feed ; but I do not know how that would have been, because, 
if these cows had not been accustomed to the food we might have killed 
them, and therefore it was not for Mr. Kidd to do that which he believes to 
have been the very cause of the fatal result in the case of Mr. Wells's cattle. 
However, we do not interfere with the mode in which these cowkeepers give 
the cake to their cattle, we left it entirely to them ; they give it in the pro- 
portions which you have heard, day by day, and the cattle were thriving very 
well. Ask yourselves the question, then, were these cattle fed on refuse, 
dirty linseed, deleterious cake, holding in its composition some inscrutable 
poison ? I think I may anticipate your answer upon that point. But, Gentle- 
men, that is not all : my friend gives the thing the go-by ; but you will not 
do so. There is a body of evidence to prove and establish beyond all doubt that 
this cake has been supplied for years from that very mill, and in this very 
month of February, in the quantities which you have heard ; and with what 
result? Why, it has gone forth to the feeders of cattle from Northumberland 
to Warwickshire, and throughout England. Of the whole that was supplied 
in that month of February not a murmur of complaint from a single source 
has come ; and of the 10,000 tons sold within the last few years not a single 
whisper of complaint has ever been uttered. Is this, then, a mere coin- 
cidence ? Is this the " accident of an accident "? Are you to be liskcd in the 
absence of scientific discovery, on the mere theory of distinguished and clever 
men, that, because there may be a poison which they cannot detect, and of 
Avhich this cow may have died, when you find that these thousands of tons, 
eaten without injui y, trusted in and not complained of by farmers, sold broad- 
cast throughout the country, to shut your cars to all these facts, in order that 
you may drink in a speculation founded on no fact, but merely upon theories 
of these dislingnishcd men. Gentlemen, I put it to you wai'nily, still I ask 
you to deal with it logically, and will you not rather rely upon the alliniiaiive 
evidence which I have submitted to you, as being something solid, in which 
you can place confidence as to the cause of the death and disease of tlK'se 
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