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Show H DONAHUE AND THE DRY H FARMING CONGRESS. H Saturdays Intcrmountain contains H the information that through a zom- U binatiou of illness in the case of Fish- H cr Harris and treachery on the part H of Donahue, editor of "Scientific H Farming," a Denver publication, and H Vice President of the Dry Farm Con- fl grcss, Salt Lake stands an excellent B opportunity of losing the Dry Farm- H ing Congress. It appears that Mr M Harris was taken seriously ill rccctit- M ly, immediately on his return from H the cast and was forced to pass the M matter of arrangements up to Dona- hue. This man favored Cheyenne as R the meeting place for the Dry Farming H people and without consulting Mr. J Harris, wc understand, switched the H place of meeting to Cheyenne. He H( , explained his action by stating that M Salt Lake couldn't handle the affair. M What action Mr. Harris will take in H the matter is unknown as he is still H1 in the hospital, but wc hope to see H him u c his authority as President H and Secretary of the Dry Farming or- H ganization and call Donahue down H good and hard. Salt Lake wants that H congress and wants it badly and she H objects strenuously to being sold out H ' by the methods employed by Dona- M hue. Salt Lake .is hc centre of a M, state full of dry farms that make M Cheyenne and her dry farms look M like the proverbial quarter and five Ijj cents. Utah as a state has done more m in the line of arid farming invcstiga- HV tion than any other western state. ( She supports six Experimental Arid ly Farms and on them more is being H accomplished for arid farming than is H. being accomplished by all her western H sisters. Wyoming included Back there in Denver Donahue runs a farm paper and a rea estate agency. He is trying to popularize Dry Farming Farm-ing because he controls a lot of land he .wants to sell. He wants to show that it can' be dry farmed. His personal per-sonal knowledge of dry farming and agriculture generally is included in the one word "Campbcllism." He wants Cheyenne for the place of meeting of the congress because Cheyenne is nearer the land he has to sell. It is up to Fisher Harris to ticket Donahue to the woods. If Mr. Harris Har-ris himself is too ill to handle the congress, somebody can be appointed. appoint-ed. The stale has got lots of men who can manage it and do it successfully. success-fully. Salt Lake and Utah as a whole demands a square deal. " Dcscrct Fanner." |