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My local dairy in Niagara Falls NY opened in 1908 with horse-drawn wagons. Here is a story a resident recently posted:

My grandfather was a veterinarian in Niagara Falls from 1913 when he graduated from Cornell until he died in 1963. I remember stories he told me about the times before motorized vehicles, when horses did most of the work, like horse-drawn milk delivery. The horse would pull the wagon slowly down the street where they had deliveries and pick up of the empties from the insulated box on everyone's porch. The delivery guy would run from wagon to house, back and through the wagon, handling the empties and deliveries, run to another house on the other side of the street, etc, never touching the reins because the horse knew what to do. Seems that one delivery route went down Ontario Ave where we lived and around the streets nearby. Getting there from Wendt's in La Salle was a bit of a trek, and one very early morning the driver fell asleep on his way to where the route began. But the horse knew the way, and the route as well. When they reached Ontario, the horse slowed down as usual and walked slowly down the street, around the corner to North, and so on along the entire route- while the driver slept peacefully on the seat in the wagon. He woke up just as the horse pulled the wagon back into Wendt's yard on Buffalo Ave, full of milk and with no empties. I think he got fired.