Show SIDES OF BEEF few persons choso whoso attention la attracted by the array of christmas moats in the markets ot new aro aware that the fantastically carved angures and flowers that decorate the halves and quarters ot bac huns up jor display are as a rule the work of artistic cutters in the packing houses and seldom that of ho men in the retail shops it was formerly the usage that each market an made his own after lie received his consignment ol 01 bet but experience has shown that it Is done better and more easily in tofy packing houses new york of its christmas beef from and it Is there that most of it Is decorated or cut so that it will appear to the best advantage and catch the eye scoring is the technical term used by cutters in the work of decorating they use knives as sharp as razors cutting the design in the plates or muscular sheet that covers the lower part of the fore ribs while alie animal is still warm when the meat cools the i gashes made by the spread open and show the marbling 0 jhb beef where it is possible the cuts aro trimmed so that the proportions of lean and tat will be about right an expert can cut and score tho meat so that it will display very nicely but it takes a good prime bullock to work up in good shape athla is seldom except with beet for the I 1 and new years trade what is commonly called christ kaaa beef comes from rather light smooth young cattle of good bhago and even fat the kind weighing from 1200 to 1500 pounds cattle come from all over the corn bolt where all the best beet cattle arc raised wherever corn is a suro thare arc found the anest beet cat tl buyers insist that christmas bec is really robetter no better than tho prime article sold at other seasons ot tho year imagination often improves beet more than the tart that when alive it possessed the essential 0 a fancy bullock the consumers who pay alie price can gel just as good beet at one time as at another new york ia especially particular say tho buyers about tho quality of beet for its fancy trade tho high clasa hotels and restaurants in this city demand the best beef obtainable and are indifferent to alio cost for the reason that ceato mers do not care what price Is asked for aleak it it Is what they want friend to amateur suppose voun sarc up painting when you mar ry no be so conico ant an etien wo have 0 o nl 1 I ia fatt s liet worda anro sald liaro been my oh icv I 1 lov ray bald alint alic adyln word were 1 I liopo ali country will loBo nir thin for alic ballor ars but nal ady his mony and the country certainly did tor Jou klus |