Show FORMER CIRCUS CATTLE GA TILE BECOME HERD OF DAIRY Florida Man fan Selects Animals Animals mals That Barnum Used As Curiosities By fly NEt NEA Service MIAMI Fla Ila June 25 Dar Bar Bar Barnum's num's circus cows freaks when they were Introduced l In America In 1847 ISH now comprise the greater create part of the stock on a million dol dol- dollar lol lollar lar dairy plant pl nt near here The They are producing rich milk for babies and arc are prized as some of the fin tin cst est cattle In the country countr These are the white belted cat cat- cattie cattle cattie tie tle 1 P. T. T Barnum Darnum brought here her from Holland They get their thel name from fr m the odd marking ot of II a abroad broad white belt around the bod body of an otherwise coal black cow Once a a. curiosity they now num nurn- number number ber on the White Belt jelt farm arm o of Dr and Mrs 1 John Gordon Du Du- DuPuis DuPuis Puis Puts at Lemon I I mon City near here hert Gem of oC Columbia one of this stock broke the worlds world's record fo for her breed at 11 years of age fo for milk mille and butter production an anthe and the following year par surpassed even ever this with a production of 1725 pounds of oC milk and I pounds o of oC butterfat VOlt FOK I OIt SICK Dr DuPuis started his great grea dairy venture In 1906 with a a. lone Ion Jersey cow He lie wanted ante to supply his sick children patients with pure pur milk Now he supplies a a. special baby's babs milk mille for tiny infants and a a. standard milk for children equal equa to the best from Crom other cows His white belt b lt cows roam on a acre farm that exceeds exceed an ln estment of a a. million dollars More Jore than half of the farm value Is Invested In cattle and equipment The rhe same sante farm farni grows Its own for for- forage age nearly 1200 tons a year most most- mostly mostly mostly ly Para Fara and grasses Hun hun- hundreds of acres of corn are also als grown for silage e. e A I PLANT The farm has Its own electric refrigeration plant Its own steril- steril sterilIzing sterilIzing Izing and bottling plants laundry commissary and other modern farm machinery Even en a a. private laboratory Is maintained to keep a a. constant check checkon on the milk Th The average dally daily bacterial count I Js is four times s less than the govern govern- governments government's governments government's governments government's ments ment's requirement for certified milk Dr DuPuIs Is president of at th the Dutch Belted ll Cattle Association o of America J As such he leads als alsIn also In having pure bred Dutch belted cows cons said to be the largest herd of the kind In the world Despite this great enterprise which demands a great deal of hi his interest Dr DuPuis still follows follow his hll hl profession proCession Today however howver he visits his patients by modern mode auto but he well remembers reme when he cut across lots on foot through h the palmettos of Florida to male make his dally daily rounds |