“If the 300 million head of livestock that came to the South St. Paul Stockyards since its opening in 1887 were placed head-to-tail, they would form a line 248,560 miles long that would extend around the earth at the equator more than 10 times.”
From a brochure commemorating the closure of South St. Paul stockyards in Minneapolis St. Paul. See Silence Replaces Bids and Moos at Stockyards in Suburbs
