The leases are usually for three years.
The cows are milked twice a day, being driven for that purpose into a corral, near the milk-house.

I noticed that they were all very gentle; they lay down in the corral with that placid air which a good cow has; and whenever a milkman came to the beast he wished to milk, she rose at once, without waiting to be spoken to.

One man is expected to milk twenty cows in the season of full milk.

On some places I noticed that Chinese were employed in the milk-house, to attend to the cream and make the butter.
The tenants are of different nationalities, American, Swedes, Germans, Irish, and Portuguese.

A tenant needs about two thousand dollars in money to undertake one of these dairy-farms; the system seems to satisfy those who are now engaged in it.