!• Mrs. McSparran (Continued from Page 1) and chickens, feeding most of the crops grown Mrs MsSparr an has been living in Quarry- Ville almost 4 years but still has an active interest in farming and rural life. Mr. and Mrs McSparran have three married sons. Ray, 34 has two daughters, now living in Endicott, N.Y. He farmed for them 13 years then went to Pa. State Umv. and has a B S in Electrical Engineering and is employed by 1.8 M. John 28, has a BS in Civil Engineering from Penn State and a Master from University of Pittsburgh He is employed by the Pa Dept of Forest and Wa ters, Harrisburg They live in Elizabethtown. Lloyd 27, has a B S and Phd in Electrical Engineering from Penn State and works for Gen eral Electric in Erie, Pa. For the past 17 years she has been Secretary of Fulton Grange #66, which has a mem- “Merry Christmas, Mom!” Kerosene Lamps with Christmas Decorations Now Only 84c Reg. $1.39 It’s our way of saying “Merry Christmas”. Two real copper-colored metal lamps lend an old-fashion ed spirit of Christmas to your home! A $139 value. “Merry Christmas” Save $l.OO Indoor/Outdoor Thermometer Only SJ)SO Was $6.50 Great gift for weather watch* ers! Beautiful wood-grain case. In gift box. Don’t forget a CORD! an value 10' Multi-Outlet Exten sion Cord. It can’t kink! Green only. AGWAY INC. Manhexm Pike and Dillerville Road Lancaster, Pa. Phone; 394 0541 bership of 230 and meets twice a month. She has also served as Lecturer of this Grange and is now the Lecturer of Lancaster Co Pomona Grange #7l and is on the State Grange Lecturer’s committee As Pomona Lecturer she is in charge of their literary programs She has organized a Pomona Grange chorus of about 30 people. She also coordinates Lecturers’ work among county Granges and works with distuct Lecturers for one district meet ing a year Mrs McSparran is well known to Lancaster Farming readers for hei news reports for both Fulton and Pomona Grange. She served as a director of the Lancaster Co Extension Ass’n. for a three year term ending in 1967 and was one of the secretaries of the Southern Lancaster Co Community Fair Ass’n for several years and was relieved for a few years but filled in again the past year at fair time. Mrs McSparran is an active member of the Mount Zion “Merry Christmas, Dad!” s' Bernz Save 8% f Carry-AU S TORCH KIT was $8.55 Includes .attachments for sweating , joints, heavy . soldering, burning paint, repairing gutters and hun dreds of other jobs. Guar anteed for life by Bernz- O-MatiC Save up to Jkfc 20% M on wraps! 5-roll Gift Wrap &Foil M c 6-roll Gilt Wrap (| Q " % n .Stab Milford R. Heddleson, speak ing at the ninth annual Foiage Confeienee heie last week, said pai alytic-type health pi oblems in livestock “seem to crop up veiy frequently wheie soils aie known to be low in magnesium content ” The agiononnst pointed out that the Penn State Soils and Forage Testing Laboiatoiy has compiled sufficient data on nutuent levels of the vanous Commonwealth soils to show is lationships between livestock disordeis and low soil levels of magnesium “The most seveie heid pi ob lems appeal to be on fauns v/heie high pioduction is achieved along with an inten sive ciopping piogiam ” Heddle son emphasized “When laiae amounts of nitiogen aie apphed to the soil, this tends to supiess magnesium uptake in the foiage plants ” In seme aieas of the state, the agiononnst said magne sium soil levels aie much lov'er than in othei sections In soils wheie magnesium is low and potassium levels aie high ;he plants generally contain Jaige amounts of potassium which cieates pioblems in achievmg balanced lations foi livestock Heddleson pointed out that soil testing and the application of magnesium accoiding to test recommendations may prove valuable in areas wheie soils are low in the element “Racketeer” The term racketeei tiaces its ongin to England in the 17th centuiy, where pick-pockets would stait a racket or noise on the street in order to attract a ciowd of victims Nothing’s beautiful except food to a man who’s hungry.