Porkery

"Recently another disease, a most fatal one, has been found to arise from eating swine’s flesh, a disease that takes into the human body live animaculæ, called Trichinœ. There were so many cases of this horrid disease for the last year or two, that a very decided decrease in the sale of pork, at Cincinnati, the great porkery of our land, was felt."

"In the packing season of 1860–’61 upward of three million head of hogs were packed at the various porkeries of the United States, besides those packed by farmers at home, of which less than twenty thousand were packed at regular establishments south of the lines of our armies. […] Tennessee then became the main reliance for the future use of the army, which, together with the accessible portions of Kentucky, had been so ravaged by hog cholera and injured by short corn crops for three years preceding the year just closed, that the number slaughtered at the porkeries within her limits had deviated from two hundred thousand head to less than twenty thousand."