Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1918 — The Packhorse Comes Back. [ARTICLE]

The Packhorse Comes Back.

Among many revivals for which the war is responsible Is that of the packhorse. The packhorse, or packmule, says London Answers, has proved his usefulness over and over again at the front where he carries shells jand other munitions and stores to the dumps and front lines, and this use has no doubt led the prince of Wales to endeavor to revive the once-famed Devon packhorse on his Dartmoor farms. It is only within the last few years that the packhorse has disappeared from the byways of Devon and the north, and to this day ponies and donkeys are still used on the coast to carry seaweed and shingle. Formerly nearly all the traffic In the west of England was carried by the packhorse, which traveled in single file, the leader wearing bells to warn on-comers in the narrow lanes and to guide those following.