The remarkable prejudice entertained in England for the "best joints"
of meat is well known, and is remedied by great differ- ences of price. Servants will scarcely touch " neat's cheek," to some palates one of the best parts of the bullock, and the leg and shoulder of mutton differ 20 per cent, in coat. The prejudice, however, is much stronger in New York, where breast of mutt= can scarcely be sold, and the butchers are unable even to give away the heads of sheep, esteemed in Scotland a delicacy and eaten readily in England. The butchers are obliged to bury them as refuse, and as. they cannot bury them in the city, must send them to the refuse-pits outside at their own expense. The butchers declare that the price of mutton in New York is not regulated either by production or demand, but by the price of wool, the graziers when wool is high preferring to keep their sheep alive. Within the last two years the supply, which comes in chiefly from Canada, has from this cause alone sunk from 50,000 to 12,000 head, to the extreme inflation of prices.
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