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Show APOSTLE OF POULTRY TO VISIT SALT LAKE Edward Brown, London, Will Arrive as Agent of Animal Husbandry Department De-partment of TJ. S. Some years ago a European journal described Edward Brown, of London, who will visit Salt Lake this week on behalf of the animal husbandry division of the United States department of agriculture, agri-culture, as "The Apostle of Poultry." It compared his many journeys in many lands to those of Peter, the Hermit, the great crusader. While English to the core, Mr.Brown has recognized no frontiers fron-tiers in promotion of poultry husbandry, which undoubtedly led to his unanimous selection as first president of the International In-ternational Association of Poultry Instructors In-structors and Investigators. He has visited nearly all European countries, giving his knowledge and ex-j ex-j perience to whoever applied to him. Among others, he had made several tours in southeastern Europe as far as Serbia and Bulgaria. After the first and second Balkan wars, he believed that those beautiful and fertile lands could be made into great producing countries, rivaling Denmark in that respect, if peaceful conditions prevailed. pre-vailed. Unhappily, the ambitions and malignant designs of the central European Euro-pean powers, leading to the present catastrophic conditions, have made a wilderness where might hae been great prosperity and wonderful development. "There the work of reconstruction when neace returns will call for the greatest efforts of allied nations," Mr. Brown says. J |