Note 63 — Chapter II
Reading edition
Bigelow, Les États Unis en 1863, pp. 379, 380. In the same paragraph this volume states the number of animals slaughtered in the United States by butchers, in 1859, at 212,871,653. This is an error of the press. Number is confounded with value. A reference to the tables of the census shows that the animals slaughtered that year were estimated at 212,871,653 dollars; the number of head is not given. The wild horses and horned cattle of the prairies and the horses of the Indians are not included in the returns.