Livestock has always been the major land use at Daley Ranch, where besides cattle for dairying and beef, the Daleys also raised horses, including specialty breeds such as Hamiltonians used for pulling carts in a racing walk, a use that faded when the automobile became commonplace. The dairy operated on the property from 1910 to 1925. In the 1920s, one irrigation pond was constructed of concrete on the hill top, and a series of ponds were built in the 1940s and 1950s to provide irrigation water, built by two operators with hovels and tractors with scrapers, with work beginning at 6 am. The ranch was farmed for various grain crops until the early 1960s, when it was again used for grazing cattle. In hay season, the farm hands solicited help from their friends, and hay was put up on Daley Ranch for sixteen years, ending in 1935.