Hello All, If there are any collectors of old ABJ which might have the November 1931 issue I need for you to look on page 498 under the heading "larger size bees" and tell me the name of the author. I don't expect the article to be very in depth but would be interesting to know the content. The only other collector i know hasn't got the copy either. I am missing five months of 1931 and the other collector has no copys in 1931. Thanks! Because of all the debate on cell size recently i will post the article and the Dadant editor C.P.Dadants comments. Bees not Necessarily Effected BY Cell Size by Milton G. Miller California Jan. 1932 In the November 1931 issue,on page 498,under the heading"Larger size Bees" there appears a editorial in which the idea is given of making larger cells to produce larger bees. There seems to me to be no good reason to believe that larger bees will be better bees. The honey bee is a very highly developed form of life,and unless some new condition arises that will make a larger bee more efficient,its size is right just as it is. (we give this statement on the value of larger cells without offering a decision either way. Let the matter be tested further by experiments. Sooner or later we will get to a definite,positive opinion,one way or the other.-C.P. Dadant editor Jan. 1932) I submit the above as positive proof the beekeeping world was getting ready to enlarge cell size in 1931. C.P.Dadant was saying what Barry Birkey is saying that we need the matter tested by further experiments! To resolve questions like 1 how large can we enlarge cells and queens lay worker brood? 2.What possible parasite problems might we cause? 3.Is a larger bee possible and will the tounge increase in length? 4.and the list went on! I value the Jan. 1932 issue also because on page 32 is a article titled : Missouri State Beekeepers Association formed. We are in our 68th year. For interested Missouri beekeepers the article states the president then was A.W.Cale and the assn. was formed through the efforts of Dr. K.C. Sullivan and Mr. Diemer of Liberty,MO. Sincerely, Bob Harrison