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not know the sand at New Brighton ; it was an insinuation to ask 
whether they got the sand from New Brighton. 
Mr. Kemp, the manager of the North Shore Mills, Liverpool, 
was called, and corroborated the evidence of Mr. Irving. 
A foreman of the North Shore Company was called, and he said 
that the particles produced could not pass through the wires. 
Mr. Wills asked to look at the sieve containing the sand, and 
said it contained husks of wheat, mouse dung, and what, the wit- 
ness added, was part of a mouse’s nest. It was also stated that the 
holes in the sieve produced were larger than those between the 
wires of the Liverpool machines. 
Francis Johnson, manager to Mrs. Scrimshaw, Trent Bridge, 
Nottingham, said last summer they had twenty packs of rice- meal 
from the plaintiff, which they sold to customers, and never had 
any complaints. 
William Bower , a farmer, at Whatton, said he bought thirteen 
packs last year of the defendants, and gave three to the pigs and 
ten to the horses. The horses would have had a stone a day and 
the pigs a quarter. 
He found no sand. 
Mr. Seymour contended that this was part of a different lot. 
The defendant Warhurst, however, said that Mr. Bower’s packs 
of meal arrived at Bingham the same day as Mr. Newton’s. They 
belonged to the same lot. This was further proved by the station 
master at Bingham. 
Walter Buxton , Carlton-hill, Charles Beecroft , farmer, and 
Thomas Mellors, a butcher at Basford, spoke to giving rice meal 
to horses and pigs, and that they did uncommonly well, 
Mr. Henry Smith, Cropwell Grove, deposed that he farmed 1500 
to 1600 acres altogether. He had dealt with Messrs. Warhurst 
several years. He purchased 100 bags of rice meal a few weeks 
ago. He had thirty-five to forty horses, which he fed with meal. 
He allowed eight pounds and a half per day for the horses. His 
horses did well upon the meal. 
By Mr. Seymour — Had lost three young pigs, but what was the 
cause of their death he did not know. It was eighteen months 
ago. They were fed on rice meal. His shepherd’s name was John 
Roberts. Witness’s attention was not called to sand being in the 
meal by his shepherd. He had no doubt that there was a certain 
small portion of sand in the meal. 
Mr. Brown , a veterinary surgeon at Melton, said he had been 
in practice for forty-eight years. He had known horses to die from 
an accumulation of earthy matters in the large bowels. He had 
known cases to occur in dry summers since 1826. He thought 
the sand might be got through the water, and occasionally grazing. 
If horses were fed on wheat straw they were more likely to have 
bowel complaints than anything else. 
Mr. Seymour — Should feeding on wheat straw with a few beans 
and good meal leave lOlbs. of sand in a horse’s csecum? No. 
Mr, Wills then addressed the jury for the defendants, aud con- 
