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made more useful to the State. All this necessarily involves much rou- 

 tine work and this work is already reaching large proportions. The 

 many problems in beet sugar production have necessitated a large num- 

 ber of analyses of sugar beets. This work is always immediate, and it 

 many times causes other important work to be dropped temporarily. 



During the past year the experiment station and particularly the di- 

 vision of chemistry has sustained a loss from which it will with exceeding 

 difficulty recover. I refer to the death of Dr. Robert C. Kedzie, who has 

 been at the head of this department since its birth. His work has been so 

 intermingled with college and station affairs that it is impossible to 

 think of either without the association bringing the life work of Dr. 

 Kedzie to mind. But to eulogize him is a task for which I am entirely in- 

 competent. To one who has had with me the esteemed honor and pleasure 

 of a somewhat intimate acquaintance with him, Dr. Kedzie's death brings 

 a keen flense of a personal loss. 



The recommendations of the chemist have for years been made with 

 the hope of providing better laboratory facilities for the experiment 

 station division and conditions finally shaped themselves in a way 

 that demanded some adjustment. To meet this requirement and 

 to relieve as much as possible the over-crowded condition of the chem- 

 ical department of the college the Board granted the upper part of the 

 veterinary building for the use of the station laboratory. These rooms 

 are i.ow occupied by this division. 



Undertaking as I have done to continue the work laid down by our 

 revered Dr. Kedzie and realizing, to some extent at least, the meaning 

 of it all I appreciate in no small degree the earnest support you have 

 given me and I desire here to express my high appreciation of that sup- 

 port. I deem it a pleasure to acknowledge also my appreciation of the 

 advice and counsel of Professor Frank S. Kedzie. 



Very respectfully submitted, 



June 30, 1903. FLOYD W. ROBISON, Chemist. 



REPORT OF DEPART3IENT OF BACTERIOLOGY AND HYGIENE. 



Director C. D. Smith : 



Owing to the disturbed conditions under which we have been laboring 

 during the past year, I shall not be able to report much accomplished 

 experimental work. My own time up to March 14th, when I sailed for 

 Europe, was almost exclusively occupied with teaching and with matters 

 connected with the construction of the new Bacteriological laboratory. 

 So many details have to be considered in the building of a laboratory, 

 which cannot be easily conveyed to those in charge of construction, that 

 1 felt it necessary, as well as desirable, to watch 'over them in their prep- 

 aration. As I look back over the constructive work, I feel that my time 

 was very ])rofitably sjient. 



Although no experimental work of any consequence is to be placed 

 to our credit during the past year, nevertheless we are now in better 

 condition to carry on investigations. We feel gratified that the Board 



