George
Washington Carver worked with the soil to conserve nutrients and discovered
hundreds of new uses for crops, such as the peanut.
George had to overcome many things. He was born to slave parents and worked
as a farm hand. He studied in a one-room schoolhouse. He went to college
in 1887. When he was older, he worked in a college as the Director of
Agriculture.
At college, he developed a crop rotation method that helped the nutrients
in the soil. After learning of this method, farmers began to rotate their
crops. Carver saw that peanuts were mostly used for feeding the farm animals,
so he started to develop ways to use peanuts. He came up with 325 different
uses for peanuts. If you want to learn more about
George Washington Carver and the uses of the peanut, check out the website
www.mit.edu/invent.
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