Seeing a wash-cart in a dairyyard the other day, I was reminded of the silent and almost unheeded revolution that has taken place in the methods of Dublin milk-production and distribution. Before the war these wash-carts were the most familiar sights in many of the Dublin streets; yet so completely have they faded from sight that they have also almost faded from memory. These gaily-coloured casks, mounted on wheels and drawn through the streets by a horse, are now seen only at rate intervals at one of our remaining distilleries.
Twenty years ago the streets leading to, and in the vicinity of, the Dublin distilleries might have shown on any morning some hundreds of these vehicles patiently awaiting their turn to get into the distillery for its supply of the "wash" itself was the residue after the whiskey had been distilled, and it was fed to dairy cows in Dublin in large quantities. Nowadays so little is there available that few dairy-keepers trouble to endeavour to secure a supply.
The Irish Times, December 13th, 1929.