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花生专家
乔治华盛顿卡佛对于农作物一直保持高度兴趣，在他童年时期，就已经有了「农作物医生」的称号，自己拥有一个种有各种作物的秘密菜园，人们在农作物不健康时、都会询问他的意见，有的时候他会将这些作物带回自己的秘密花园、细心照料后将农作物健康地物归原主。
后来在他任教于塔斯提吉学院时，更将他在农作物种植上的技术作了最好的运用，许多南方人民原来都指在自己的土地上种植棉花，而棉花正是会吸取最多土壤养分的作物（这些滋养物正是农作物的养分来源），所以种过棉花的土壤、在短短几年之后就会变成「使用过度」的土壤，最后这些土地就无法再种植棉花。
这种情况对贫穷的非裔美国人农夫特别不利，他们依赖销售棉花作物维生；卡佛十分希望帮助这些农夫、所以他提出了一个计画。
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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