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花生專家
喬治華盛頓卡佛對於農作物一直保持高度興趣，在他童年時期，就已經有了「農作物醫生」的稱號，自己擁有一個種有各種作物的秘密菜園，人們在農作物不健康時、都會詢問他的意見，有的時候他會將這些作物帶回自己的秘密花園、細心照料後將農作物健康地物歸原主。
後來在他任教於塔斯提吉學院時，更將他在農作物種植上的技術作了最好的運用，許多南方人民原來都指在自己的土地上種植棉花，而棉花正是會吸取最多土壤養分的作物（這些滋養物正是農作物的養分來源），所以種過棉花的土壤、在短短幾年之後就會變成「使用過度」的土壤，最後這些土地就無法再種植棉花。
這種情況對貧窮的非裔美國人農夫特別不利，他們依賴銷售棉花作物維生；卡佛十分希望幫助這些農夫、所以他提出了一個計畫。
George Washington Carver was always interested in plants. When he was a child, he was known as the "plant doctor." He had a secret garden where he grew all kinds of plants. People would ask him for advice when they had sick plants. Sometimes he'd take their plants to his garden and nurse them back to health.
Later, when he was teaching at Tuskegee Institute, he put his plant skills to good use. Many people in the South had been growing only cotton on their land. Cotton plants use most of the nutrients in the soil. (Nutrients provide nourishment to plants.) So the soil becomes "worn out" after a few years. Eventually, cotton will no longer grow on this land.
This was especially bad for poor African American farmers, who relied on selling cotton to support themselves. Carver was dedicated to helping those farmers, so he came up with a plan.
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