Kidd V. Roijal Agricultural Society of England. 673 
They saj this was an inferior bit of linseed-cake, dirty, and con- 
tained a quantity of seeds, of cotton-cake, rice, broken corn and 
cocoa-nut, apparently made from dirty linseed and the sweepings 
of corn-warehouses. That is what they say there. There can 
, be no doubt that that, coming from the Royal Agricultural 
Society, would be by itself a thing calculated to injure the sale of 
Mr. Kidd's property. But we have to see whether it is true, 
and, supposing it not to be true, there comes the question of 
damages. Now, upon both those questions this bears very much 
\ upon the evidence which we have got from Mr. Kidd. Mr. Kidd 
and Mr. Ayre both have been obliged to admit on interrogatories 
administered to them that, in the course of the manufacture, 
what you have had detailed before you here takes place. It seems 
that, some four years ago, Mr. Kidd and Mr. Ayre agreed 
together, as they say (this is their version of it), finding that 
linseed-cake made of linseed was very apt to have rape-seed in it, 
and, consequently to be bitter and bad, so that people complained 
;of it, they got the idea into their heads that it would be a good 
[thing to make a cake which would consist of screened linseed 
l(which, of course, would be dear, being what they would call 
" Pure Linseed-cake," if it was made from that alone), with an 
admixture of a certain quantity of bran, so as to make it cheaper 
for them, and then to sell this compound so made of linseed 
and bran. At first they had only bran in it, but, after a time, 
sesame-cake was taken and ground and mixed with it ; and that 
was what they made this cake of — one-half only of linseed, and 
the other made of bran and sesame-cake mixed with it. 
Now, upon this part of the case, Mr. Seymour, in addressing 
jYOu, used a phrase which I think expressed it very well. If in 
jselling linseed-cake, you tell people that it is an honest product of 
your own, manufactured in pressing the oil out of the linseed, 
,ihen it is obvious that this would not be that. If a man says, 
[ will sell you linseed-cake pure, and he means by that, I have 
aken the linseed and have screened it, and I have squeezed out 
he oil and this is the honest manufacture with the oil squeezed • 
rat, that would be linseed-cake pure. If he says, I will give you 
inseed — I have not screened it, because as we all know, linseed 
,:omes with a certain quantity of impurities in it — I have not 
aken that out — I have squeezed out the oil and this is the pro- 
luct ; there is not only linseed, but the impurities which were in 
t, because it was not screened linseed : if he says, it is the honest 
)roduct of my manufacture when I have squeezed the oil out of 
ny unscreened linseed that would be linseed-cake too, not so good 
•s the other, but a good one, and I certainly have understood 
hat generally speaking what is called pure linseed-cake, would 
)e understood to be the honest product of manufactured screened 
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