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VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
Chemists generally keep it secret how they compound their mixtures. 
I have been present at dippings of sheep. I know i\Jr. Wilson, of 
Coldstream. I had never a curiosity to know what his mixture is com¬ 
posed of. I have one of his packages, but I have not analysed it. 
William Jenkinson —I am the shopman of Mr. Elliott. I was in Mr. 
Elliott's shop on the 1st of August, when Mr. Black came in. tie was 
accompanied by Mr. Elliott. I was at the counter. I heard the con¬ 
versation between them. [Witness corroborated the previous witness 
as to the conversation. ^ 
George James Robertson —I am twenty years of age, and am appren¬ 
tice to the defendant, Mr. Elliott. 1 went to him on the 26th February, 
1855. I was not employed in mixing the powders in that year, but in 
the subsequent years I was. In July, 1858, I was employed with the 
other apprentice in making up the powders for that season. We made 
up far more than five dozen. The whole number was for fifty hogs 
each. I never heard of any injury to any sheep to whom the bath was 
applied. 
William Meikle, William Elliott , junior apprentices, corroborated 
generally the statements of the previous witness. 
Thomas Hardie —I am shepherd to Mr. Craw, of Scrimiston, near 
Berwick. 1 remember Saturday, the 14th August, dipping a number 
of my master’s sheep. I got the powders from Mr. Elliott’s shop. 
There were powders each for fifty sheep. I got them on Friday, the 
day before the dipping. I had powders for fifty sheep. I began to dip 
somewhere about seven o’clock in the morning. I dipped 413 or 417 
sheep. I used eight of the powders, and I finished between five and six 
o’clock in the afternoon. No harm, to my knowledge, came to any of 
the sheep I dipped. Mr. Black sent for a part of the wash powder, 
which was not used, and Mr. Elliott got a part. I have been accustomed 
to dip sheep for a good many years. I have known men employed in 
dipping sheep put straw round their legs to protect them from the 
effects of the mixture. 
David Turnbull —I am a farmer at Barmoor, and keep sheep. I have 
used Mr. Elliott’s powders for two years. Last year I bathed 380 
sheep with them. No harm came to the sheep so bathed. I was pre¬ 
sent when they were used, and I followed the directions. 
Edward Currie , shepherd to Mr. John Lank, of Unthank, had been 
accustomed to sheep all his lifetime. He had used Mr. Elliott’s powder 
ever since he commenced manufacturing them. No harm, to his 
knowledge, ever resulted from their use. 
John Lumsden, shepherd to Mr. Laidler, Fenton Hall, had used Mr. 
Elliott’s mixture. He had used it last year, about the 10th August. 
He bathed about 300. No harm resulted to the sheep. 
William Nesbitt , in the employ of Mr. Gillie, of New East Farm, 
had attended during the last ten or twelve years to sheep-dipping. Mr. 
Elliott's sheep-bath had been used on the farm during the whole of that 
time. No harm ensued to the sheep. He used it last year, having 
dipped 225 sheep with it. 
David Cooper , farmer, Westage, near Berwick, had also used Mr. 
Elliott’s powders, and found no harm to result from their application. 
A number of other witnesses were examined, who gave similar evi¬ 
dence as to Mr. Elliott’s powder, and the uninjurious results which had 
followed from its use. 
Mr. Gann, traveller to Mr. Elliott, went to Burton Farm, and took 
away two of the stomachs of the sheep. He also asked to take a few 
sods from the different fields. He got permission, and marked the sods 
