Bux-Mont Atlantic Local Meeting SOUTHAMPTON, (BUCKS CO.) The Bux-Mont-Local -of Atlantic Dairy Cooperative Dis trict 31 will hold its annual dinner meeting Oct. 29 at 7 p.m. at the Plain & Fancy Restaurant, Quakertown. Dr. Paul E. Hand, Atlantic’s general manager, will be the guest speaker. Hand will report on the cooperative’s fiscal year and will review the'Atlantic merger. In other business, Robert R. Gehman of Coopersburg, District 31 director, will present 25- and 50-year membership awards. MISSION THE PRIME LINE Hesslon Corporation a Member of the FIAT Group 25-Year Membership Awards Donald and Judith Bair, Palm, Pa.; Melvin Bauman, Quaker town; Claude Bieler, E. Greenvil le; George and David Bishop, Doylestown; Isaac Geissinger and Sons, Quakertown; George Hel wig, Kintersville; Edward M. Hen ry, E. Greenville; Paul Keeler, Jr., Perkasie; Robert D. Mack, Penns burg; Marwell Dairy Farm, Coopersburg; Kenneth Mease, Riegelsviile; Joseph Nowakowski, Chalfont; Mark or William Reith, Etnmaus; Russell M. Schantzen bach, Coopersburg; Andrew c m / Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 17, 1987-819 Schertel, Barto; Alton Y. Schol lenberger, Boyertown; Edward R. Shuhler, E. Greenville; Stoneback Brothers, Quakertown. 50>Year Membership Awards Clyde J. Masemore, Barto; Ste phen M. Soltysiak, Coopersburg. Evergreen Shedding Lots of gardeners and homeowners seem to be concerned again this fall because they see parts of their evergreens turning . yellow, then brown. Hie only advice is to keep calm. According to Susan Goldsworthy, Delaware County Cooperative Extension Horticulturalist, this happens to evergreens every year, but they may go unnoticed in some years. Watch your ever greens and you’ll see that it stays green all year simply because it does not lose all its foliage at once. The plant produces new leaves or needles every year and some of the old inside ones die and fall to the ground. The life of an everg reen leaf ranges from one year to six, depend ing on the species. Among evergreens that drop their year-old leaves or needles are laurel, holly, white pine and arborvitae. Trees that hold their green needles three to five years or more include spruce, fir, hemlock, yew (taxus) and the pines that have two or three needles in a clus ter. Most needle- bearing evergreen shed their old foliage in the fall. Holly leaves, on the other hand, drop in spring or early summer about the time new foliage covers the ends of the branches. You don’t always notice the annual leaf or needle drop because new leaves or needles may hide the inside foliage that has turned yellow or brown. It depends on the past and current growing sea sons. During a rainy summer most plants put w» a heavy growth of foliage. If the summer has been dry, there will be a light growth which will not conceal the old yellowing leaves. The effects of normal leaf or needle drop may be more striking a year or two after you transplant evergreens.