Emil Tyden gives advice on the secret of successful farming - "Build not for next year but for 50 years from now". and "nothing is worht doing on the farm unless it can pay for itself in cash profit, in convenience and in better living.
This photo shows a farmhouse being built on Tyden Farm no.4 in 1941. Tyden believed that the soil should be fertilized, modern machinery should be purchased, and buildings to house the farm animals should be built before a house because "a house…
This photograph taken on Tyden farm #2, shows a manure loader on the front of a tractor dumping a pile into a spreader which is also drawn by a tractor. "Tootsie Sherman. who stays on this farm, is driving the spreader. Rex Townsley, living on Tyden…
This is a photograph of Arvid Lindell, son of Art Lindell. Art was the manager of the Tyden farms and there was an airplane hangar on Tyden Farm #6.. Arvid was an aviation instructor in Des Moines.
This article tells of a new concrete corn crib going up on Tyden Farm #4. The corn cribs on Tyden farms are built of concrete blocks and have electric elevators
This issue of the North Iowa Farmer tells the story of the success of the application of sound business and scientific principles to farm industry o Emil Tyden's eighth North Iowa farms.
This imprint in the cement foundation of the red barn on Tyden farm #6 is representative of the imprints on many of the farm buildings on the Tyden farms
