INTRODUCTION. 



Domestic animals Continued. 



C1X 



In our review of the tables of live-stock we have confined ourselves to the official returns,- which 

 include for the most part the domestic animals connected with the agriculture of the country. By 

 such a course only can we institute those comparative examinations from which alone can be determined 

 the progress or decline of any interests involved in the census. The amount of live-stock scattered 

 throughout cities and large towns, which escaped the official record, was known to be very considerable 

 in the aggregate; and, to be enabled to arrive at some close approximation thereof, we directed each 

 of the census takers to make return of the numbers of animals in his district believed to have been 

 omitted on his schedules. The summary of these returns will be found in a table at page 192, the 

 details of which may safely be added to the numbers in the official tables immediately preceding to 

 those of the several State tables, and to those given in the present commentary, by such as desire to 

 arrive at the fullest numbers for 1860, while they should be excluded from exhibits from which we 

 would prepare comparative statements. To have embodied the numbers of the table referred to with 

 the official return, or to have included them in this review, would have lessened the means of com 

 parison, and led to erroneous conclusions as to the progress of this branch of agricultural production, 

 having been omitted, as they were, in the previous census. 



HORSES. 



There were in the States and Territories 4,336,719 horses in 1850, and 6,249,174 in 1860. 

 The following table shows the number of horses in the New England States in 1860, as compared 

 with 1850: 



I860. 1850. 



Connecticut 33, 276 26, 879 



Maine 60, 637 41, 721 



New Hampshire 41, 101 34, 233 



Massachusetts 47, 786 42, 216 



Rhode Island 7, 121 6, 168 



Vermont 69,071 61,057 



Total 258, 992 



212,274 



Vermont has more horses than any other New England State. Maine comes next, and then in 

 order succeed Massachusetts, New Hampshire; and Connecticut. There were 212,274 horses in the 

 New England States in 1850, and 258,992 in 1860, showing an increase of nearly 47,000. 



