Kidd V. Royal Agricultural Society of England. (>()3 
iiiimals, rather thau upon that whicli is presented to you by my friend, which 
: venture to characterize as pure speculation and theorj'. 
i Now, with reference to that doatli and disease, let us see what is the evi- 
dence witli which we have to deal. My friend says you are to shut out 
'iltogether the history of Airniyn Farm and Sancton. I am not going to shut 
hem out. To my mind the history of what took place at these two farms is 
iregnant with grounds of ob.=crvation in favour of Mr. Kidd, and against the 
heory of the Defendants. Talvc it that 6 or 7 lbs. produced the fatality and 
jisease at Booth Ferry ; but do not forget that, when you liave another farm 
.idjoining, you get the same cake administered to the cattle which are also 
'icing stall-fed. I am not going minutely to examine the order of the feeding, 
the quantities in which it was supplied; but one thing is perfectly clear — • 
cattle at the second farm only got about 4 lbs ; and that those cattle, 
.Ithough probably some of them certainly, as they will do at times, ate the 
;ake more greedily thau others, were cureil without oil, or the application of 
■he probaug, by merely being turned out into the fields. They had no medi- 
\ ine to help them, but the course of nature followed, and they were well the 
lext day. Now that is a fact which j'ou will, I am sure, not forget when you 
ire asked by and by by my Lord to estimate the force of the veterinary 
■vidence which you have heard to-day. Then, with reference to the beasts at 
tooth Ferry, let me remind you of this — in each of the stalls there was one odd 
)east that had it worse thau the others. I warrant yon he was a fellow that 
lad an extraordinarily good idea of getting his mouth full ; he probably took 
acre than his share, and therefore you will be of opinion, I think, that, in 
ome degree, the intensity of the symptoms in those particular odd animals 
ends to strengthen the theory that it was over-feeding which produced the 
'iisease from which they suffered. But, then, my friend says I claim Sancton 
i,s an authorit}' in my favour. Well, you know, Counsel are sometimes over- 
onfident. I may be, and I cannot help thinking my friend was then ; because 
vhat have you heard with regard to Sancton, where 3 lbs. only of the cake 
pas given ? You have no staring coat, no lolling of the tongue, no moaning or 
listress ; so that even the critical eye of Mr. Wells, who, after all, j'ou know 
■3 really an interested party here — the Plaintiff in another case more or less 
lepending upon this, and whose evidence and its accuracy you must measm-e 
')y that observation on my part — I say his interest .vould be, apart from higher 
onsiderations, to support that which he had communicated to the Agricul- 
ural Society — even he is not able to bring home the slightest trace of mischief 
0 a single animal at Sancton, except the sheep. Well, what is the evidence 
vith respect to the sheep.? They had been fed on turnips and chopped straw 
'I do not know whether you know the habits of these animals) ; tliey are 
';iven this cake, and some of them jirefer it with the chopped straw, and do 
lOt like to take it without ; but, after a while, they take to the cake when it 
3 mixed with chopped straw, and they eat it and like it, and not a sbeei) has 
■uffercd. Are you, therefore, not to come to the conclusion that the history 
■if what took i^lace at Sancton, and the use of this food there in a moderate 
nd mild ibrm, prepares you for the evidence that we have laid bcfoio you. 
Ion know it was admitted by Professor Simonds, and by my friend's witnesses 
lenerally, that there was not a sjTuptom in life or post-mortem in the body 
1 that cow or its viscera, which was not the same, symjjtom by symptom, as 
hat which follows an ordinary attack of hoven or tympanitis. EecoUect the 
noaning, the distress, the attitude of standing still, with the legs partly 
evered, the enormous gaseous disten.sion — all these are now admitted to ho 
he ordinary signs of a very ordinary complaint among cattle. Therefore cer- 
ainly you have at least this fact to go upon in this case — that yuu have in 
he ordinary known walks of every-day experience, not in the jiages of scicn- 
ific experiment or conjecture, but in the result of practical life, fnmi those 
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