> I have read that milk, ice and other delivery men liked the horse drawn
> transport because the horse new the routes and would walk on to the next stop
> while the deliveryman dropped off the milk. In one case the horses were
> retired in the late 1940's or early 1950's because of the danger to them from
> trucks and cars.
> Pieter E. Roos
I watched horse drawn milk delivery wagons from my freshman dorm room while at
college in Troy, NY in 1958. The milkman would take a small carrier of
milk/cream, etc. and walk along about three or four houses and set things onto
the porches and pick up the empties. Then he would whistle and the horse would
walk down the street to where the milk man was waiting. I have not yet seen a
motorized vehicle smart enough to do that. Ed Loizeaux
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