engaged in thrusting the dried crop from the scaffolds, and placing it in suitable position for the feeders.  When one drying-house has thus been emptied, the engine is removed to another; the same process is pursued until the circuit of the buildings has been made, and thus the ceaseless round (ceaseless at least for a season) is continued.  As soon as the crop in the first house has been threshed, the work of winnowing is commenced, and skilled hands thus engaged follow on in the track of the engine.  As each crop is cleaned and put in merchantable order, it is placed in bags of two bushels each and carried to the storehouses and granaries, there to await a requisition from the city-warehouse.

We have just witnessed the process of saving the crop of turnip-seed.  And how much may that reach? is a natural inquiry.  Of all the varieties, including the ruta-baga, about one thousand bushels, is the response.  We should have thought a thousand pounds would supply the entire Union; but we are reminded it is in part exported to far distant lands.  And what is the crop so much like turnip, but still green, and apparently of more vigorous growth?  That is one of the varieties of cabbage, of which several standard kinds are under cultivation.  Another adjoining is radish; still another, beet; and thus we pass from kind to kind, until we have exhausted a long catalogue of sorts.

Let us stop our walk over the grounds for a few moments, taking seats under the shadow of a tree, and make some inquiries as to the place itself, its extent, the course of culture, the description of manures used, etc.  Our cicerone assents to the proposal, and proceeds to answer our general inquiries.  Bloomsdale contains in round numbers four hundred acres; it has a frontage on the Delaware of upwards of a mile, is bounded on the west by the Delaware Canal, and is divided into two nearly equal parts by the Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad.  The soil is a light loam, easily worked, suited to rapid percolation, admitting of labor immediately after heavy rain, and not liable to suffer by drought.  The manures used are principally crude, obtained from the city, and landed on the premises from shallops continually plying, laden with the “sinews of farming.”  Street-scrapings are more used than stable-manure; bone-dust and guano enter largely into the account; and the aggregate annual expenditure foots up a sum almost equivalent to the fee-simple of an ordinary farm.  The culture is that denominated drill; but of course much of it is simply straight lines drawn by the plough, in which the roots for seeding are planted by hand.  The ground, with the exception of the lawn and a portion occupied from time to time by grass for home use, is divided by wagon-roads into squares and parallelograms; cross fences are not used; and each crop forms a distinct feature, accessible at any stage of growth.  The several varieties of each kind, as, for instance, those of turnip, cabbage, beet, lettuce, are planted