“Barnum’s Great Asiatic Caravan, Museum, and Menagerie,” including General Tom Thumb, traveled the country for four years, yielding large profits to its owners. After four years all the equipment was sold, except one elephant, which Barnum retained for his personal use. In charge of a keeper the elephant was sent to Bridgeport, and on Barnum’s farming land adjoining “Iranistan” both were put to new uses. The keeper was dressed in Oriental costume of silken breeches, turban, and yellow silk tunic. A six-acre field, facing the railroad tracks of the New York & New Haven Railroad, was set aside for the exclusive use of the elephant. Barnum gave the keeper a railroad time table, and whenever a passenger train came into sight the elephant busily plowed the land, the keeper goading him on and leading him as close as possible to the railroad tracks, so that he who rode might see. This publicity plan was arranged by Barnum for the benefit of his American Museum. The newspapers of this country and Europe printed accounts of the phenomenon, and everywhere it soon became known that “P. T. Barnum, proprietor of the American Museum in New York,” had been the first man in the world to make use of the elephant as an agricultural animal. Many people visited Bridgeport especially to watch the elephant in action, and hundreds of letters came to Barnum from agricultural societies. In his autobiography he summed up the questions asked, as follows: 1. Is the elephant a profitable agricultural animal? 2. How much can an elephant plow in a day? 3. How much can he draw? 4. How much does he eat? 5. Will elephants make themselves generally useful on a farm? 6. What is the price of an elephant? 7. Where can elephants be purchased?