The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-02-14
"That, Sir" says he, is Mr.. Wheelock,
of the Statistical Bureau /"


down by untimely grasshoppers then was
busted wide open with shame, for being
an old rusty ignorant farmer, that didn't
know enough to keep my mouth shut
amongst my betters! At first l wondered
if hadn't lost my jack knife somewhere,
so that could get down and hunt for it
and, at last, I thought I'd perhaps kind of
left my tobacco box under my pillow to the
tavern, and had better go right down and
get it. Before l could get awey, however,
though l found could slip out much east.
er than 1 got in,I heard Mr.. Saskatchewan
say
well, Joe, Seward has stoleD our thun-
der out of our books p
Oh, yes," says Mr.. Wheelock, Bill
can borrow ideas well enough, but what
sad dog he is for language"
Ii they continued to talk, didn't stay to
profit by it. These are the whole facts of
the case spoke OF by Mr.. Wheelock's let
ter 2.
There is one more matter in this Letter
2 want to speak of, and then III come
down to my regular work On the statistics
of Mr.. Wheelock's book, for the rest of
the winter. That matter is as follows Il
see the letter is headed Minnesota Histor-
ical Society,"" &C., which | think it is a
mistake of the printer, and should be
Minnesota, its place among the States p
judge SO from the last passage of the
piece, which was as follows
" 1t only requires to be seen wtat estimate
Senators and Representations in the Legislature
place upon their relative neutrality-suspicious.
they shall hold them in sympathy with Sew
ard or Sawyer"
| couldn't of myself make nothing out OF
this matter about Senators and Representa-
tjoes placing an estimate on their reJatjoe
constituency, and SO | went to our Member,
and asked him to tell me how it was. He
said it was hard thing to explain but
that by " relative constituency was meant
such relations, and friends, and voters, as
had been busy in electing of the members
and that the word estimate" as used in
the Assembly, was technical term, which
it meant to measure, or assess, or tog and
that to estimate their constituency" was
| to find out hoa0 much more tages then could
| stand.
"Then, says l, Mr.. Wheelock wants the
members of the Legislature to estimate their
relative constituency on his account thou-
sand dollars more this year p
Yes" says he, "the Departments of the
Government must be sustained; once a
Bureau, always Bureau"
Now, MIR, Printer, by way of change,
let US go into little statistics for as we
farmers say, " a change of pasture makes
fat calves" | don't mean to be very par.
ticular about which part of Mr.. Vince.
locks book, look into first, for somehow or
other it isn't like any other book ever
see; for it don't make any difference where,
or which end of it. you begin Att reads
just as well backwards as forwards 1t
kind of sort of grabbles up things--takiug
pinch here, and a pinch there. in dis
tracted sort OF way, as though it wanted to
bring together all the infinite gradations OF
climate and production into one integral
and simple geographical mss" This last
isn't my writing it's what Mr.. WIS book
says on page 10 which l avail myself on,
as better telling Of what I want to say than
I could myself; and more so, perhaps, be-
cause 1 didn't exactly know what did
want to say.
| Well, to begin to commence, We will first
see what is said about farming statistics,
| which it is about farmers crops, cattle and
such like. should have waited till | got
home before l said anything about these
farming statistics, where could have talk
| ed with my peighbor farmers, and have
compared their crops and cattle, and expe
rience with what this book says in which
case l might have seen if they was any bet
ter way of farming than by working and
raising things on the land for as yet, we
ignorant farmers in the country don't know
but what you learned fellows in st. Paul
have way Of farming on paper just as
we'll as we can on the soil. HowsOmever,
when looked into Mr.. Wheelock's book, I
found that his farming, or, as he calls it,
"Agricultural Statistics" didn't mean any
such things as cattle, or crops, or blowing,
or sowing, but that it was sort of Farm
ing Doctor Book, filled with recipes how to
make doctor.stuff for the farm.
Chapter 3 is headed AGRICULTURAL
PHYSICS" Ga looking Mt my dictionary l
| fonnd that physic" meant what everybody
knows it does mean. Then there came reci>
pc No. l, ."A RABLE AREAS )" which, sup
pose, is some kind of pill to physic Agri-
culture with; and here is the way DR..
| Wheelock makes it