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This rancho is substantially fenced in, with red wood pick¬ 
ets, and the stock I found in remarkable thrifty condition. 
I spent a night at the home rancho, and the two young Chi¬ 
namen cooks served up repasts as toothsome as the famous 
cooking at the Occidental. It is true, the courses were not so 
elaborate, but the meats, and a great variety of vegetables, 
were dished up in a manner that would have delighted the 
most fastidious “good liver.” And here a word may not be 
out of place in reference to 
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Chinese Servants —Everywhere in which they came under 
my observation, I found them neat, attentive, respectful, quick 
to anticipate one’s wants, quiet in manner, and altogether 
“filling the bill in full,” of what is understood by a good ser¬ 
vant. The better class in San Francisco, who have had abund¬ 
ant opportunity of testing their faithfulness and capacity in 
the various relations of household work, are unbounded in 
their praise. They make excellent cooks, are unsurpassed as 
laundresses, and learn the ways and requirements of household 
work with a rapidity that is perfectly astonishing. And I could 
not help thinking what a vast relief it would be to the dairy¬ 
men of central New York, if this class of labor could be in¬ 
troduced. Now, all through the dairy districts of the east, it 
is extremely difficult to obtain male and female labor except 
of the most inferior kind. The cost, too, of labor is excessive 
and eats up the entire profits of many a man’s farm. Hund¬ 
reds of farmers are mere slaves to hired help—help that are 
indeed “ lords of the manor ”—who will not work unless they 
are watched ; who take delight in wasting and destroying their 
employer’s property-; who are brutal to all animal life under 
their control or entrusted to their charge, and who hang like a 
dead weight upon the farmer's family, because they cannot be 
dispensed with. 
Go among the farmers to-day through central New York, 
and hear how gladly they would rid themselves of this incu¬ 
bus, and do all the work on the farm with their own hands, if 
it were possible to do so. Not that they are unwilling to pay 
