The herald., 1897-06-26
OFFICE OF THE HERALD.
Los Angeles. June 25, 1897.

The real estate transactions as recorded
yesterday were unusually light. There
were only eight mortgages, aggregating
So, 1Oo and thirty-three transfers, aggre-
eating $49,041.52. OF which $4,000 was the
consideration for sixty acres of land sold
by +. w. Samuelson to the Hollywood
Cemetery Association for cemetery pur-
poses The new place of interment Is To-
Gated about 21k miles west Of the city limits.
along the line Of the Santa Monica cleo
trio railroad. an excellent site for ocean
view and salt breexee, tempered by warm
air. The soil of the neighborhood Is spec
tally adapted for the planting Of early veg
etnbles and citrus fruit. especially lemons,
and is largely cultivated for those pur-.
poses.
The new cemetery company expects to
obtain good patronage "if this city
grows as rapidly during the next ten.years
as In the past seven"
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That the supply OF vegetables Influences
the price Of breadstuffs is a somewhat
novel proposition, and Is handled by q
writer in recent issue Of Beerbohm's S
List In an article from which the follow
ing Is condensed:
In Beerbohm's List Of recent date a
writer calls attention to the great influence
upon the sales Of flour and breadstuffs ex-
erted by the plentifulness or scarcity Of
vegetables. We make short extracts from
the article in question, as follows ''The
relation existing between the above food
products is very much ignored by statis-
ticians, many of them compiling series of
figures which deal solely and only with the,
probable supply. The possible demand is
dealt with from the ordinary figures usual
ly associated with them. Very little al
lowance Is made as a set-off as to a large,
medium or small supply OF vegetables.
One Is inclined to think that, II the latter
subject received proper attention, which It
undoubtedly should receive, many misap-
prehensions as to comparative statements,
as apply to supply and demand would
never have occurred. The demand for veg
etables OF all kinds has vastly increased
in the United Kingdom during the past
twenty-five years. This has been brought
about principally by the declining prices
of all cereal products, having caused many
Agriculturists to devote more of the land
to the production of potatoes and other
vegetables. The public finding that a reg-
ular supply OF same could be depended
upon andf also that the prices were on a
much lower basis than had previously ex-
listed, naturally consumed more, a great
inducement to do so being further given
by the rendered advice of nearly all medi-
cal men. advising plentiful use of veget-
ables of all kinds. Cheap vegetables en-
courage large consumption. Statisticians
would wish us to believe that cheap bread
also encouraged large consumption Abb
solute facts are Numerically opposed to
this. 1t is not only the demand for bread
that Is affected by cheap vegetables, but
far more so the demand for flour for house,
hold purposes. In the majority Of English
households of the present day, such ad-
5uncts to the dinner table as puddings of
which the principal component part is
fiour, are almost entirely absent, the op-
portunity TO use two or more vegetables.
and also the more plentiful supply of fruit
OF all descriptions. going very long way
TO reduce the consumption of flour for
household purposes to a minimum"
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