Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-05
HOW ONE FARM GREW
Wright County Man Who Started
Poor Now Owns 1885 Acres
of Good Land
HIS FAR" IS = MODEL
Stock Brings Good Prices At Public
saIes-Many Hogs Being Fed in VII
einty of Belmond, From Corn Raised
by owners-Road Dragging Needs
Injection of New Enthusiasm.
Special to metropolitan.

Special to Times Republican,.
Belmond, March 5.-In these days
when men are dividing their half sec
ton or 240 acre farms or else leaving
them to the management Of others be-
cause of their inability to secure help
to run them visit to one OF the rev
really large farms that still exist in
Iowa and on which operations are
interesting. With possibly one excep-
ton the largest tract in this county
owned by single individual and oper-
ated as a single farm is what Is known
as the Tyrrell farm, situated near this
town. 1t comprises 1885 acres, about
1900 of which is capable of cultiva-
ton, the balance being covered with
natural timber. Mr. Tyrrell began the
purchase of this farm in 1879. COM
| mencing with quarter section, :. to
which additions have since been made
| until the place attained it's present
size 1t is related that when the owner
of all this land came to the town ne
sought in vain to buy sack of flour
"on time no merchant having conf
dence in his ability to ever pay for 1t.
H. C. Tyrrell, the son of the elder TYR
| ell, has managed the farm for several
years. At present there are nearly
500 head of cattle on the place and
more than 800 hogs. One bunch of $50
wo-year-old steers which have lately
| been put on full feed have been win
| tered without any shelter whatever, ex-
| cept that of the timber which stands
on the ground where they are kept and
| they look as tho they hadn't passed an
uncomfortable hour during the winter
| They drink at tank filled by a flowing
we'll and eat from a self feeding trough
One man cares for them. In other
yards are big droves of cattle in vari-
Gus stages of the feeding process
place and water is piped from it to
| the various yards. A ten-horse power
gasoline engine runs a grinder with a
capacity of sixty bushels an hour and
a corn crusher with twice that ca
pacity. AS it is treated the grain is
| elevated to bin overhead and shovel
ing is thus avoided: 1t might be men
toned here that the man who attends
| to this part of the business gets his
corn from crib that contains at pres
ent about 1900 bushels of grain.
AS might be expected, some full
blood Shorthorn cattle are kept on the
place, about thirty head, and they are
good ones too. Some time ago Mr.
| Tyrrell made a trip to Missouri and
| brought back five teams of mules for
work on the farm, one span of which
are big enough to weigh $500 pounds
"There is the poorest investment on
the place." said the manager pointing
| to a very fine barn. "The protected
open shed or the natural timber shell
ter discounts any barn that can be
built, as the animals get more sunlight
and their quarters can be kept freer
| from dampness than where reliance is
placed on a closed barn, however well
| constructed.'
One of the many farm sales held III
this locality last month was attended
by some rather extraordinary features.
William Boerneman young farmer
living few miles west of here, one day
suddenly decided to rent his farm and
move to town. Six days afterward he
sold his stuff at public sale. Some OF
his mich cows, good grade Shorthorns,
brought more than $50 apiece. A crib
of corn was disposed of at 361k cents a
bushel, cents above the market price
for that day. Grade brood sows were
sold as high as $3.50; horses of course,
went at a high figure, and the farm
machinery, used three seasons, was
sold for at least two-thirds of it's orig
inal cost price. The excellent condi-
ton in which everything put up for
sale was kept accounts in part for the
result, but sale held under similar
circumstances eight or ten years ago
would have figured up a considerably
less amount than that of which Mr..
Boerneman finds himself possessed.
If all parts of the country are as we'll
supplied with hogs as is this vicinity,
there is no likelihood of light receipts
at shipping centers for some time to
come j. D. Baker is feeding $50 head