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Handwritten letter on Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute stationery dated January 29, 1932

In Haste

My beloved friend Dr. Ross,      

Hope to see you within the next few days, as I will answer your letter in person.  Ask Mrs. Abbott, Mr. Abbott's Mother when she is looking for him.  We hope to stop over and see you for an hour or so, we will be enroute to Denver, Colo.  Much love to Mrs. Ross. 

Admiringly yours,

G. W. Carver.

By  Brandon M.   - Gotha Middle School, Windermere, Florida.

During this book report presentation I'm doing, you'll hear about one of the greatest men and about one of the greatest scientist ever in the history of the world George Washington Carver (Also Known As "The Peanut Scientist"). Carver did a lot of experiments that were good and had a lot of great ideas in his long fulfilling life. This great African American Scientist of peanuts and sweet potatoes, as well as for saving the town cotton plants. Carver was born into slavery, because his mother Mary was a slave. Carver was born in 1864, and was almost kidnapped by raiders. The raiders took Mary and left Carver on the side of the rode. George and his brother James was taken in by their loving masters Moses an Susan Carver. At the age of twelve the young man left and went of to go to school.

Carver became very educated and was offered a job as a science professor at Tuskegee College in Alabama. The college didn't have a lab so the kids would bring in stuff from Mother Nature or he would teach them from the school farm. Carver found out the cotton plants was small and weak. So, Carver and his class did an experiment and planted sweet potatoes to give the soil a rest. The following year he decided that they would plant cowpeas and so they did. The third year he made a decision to plant cotton again and they did. From this experiment came the cotton crop grew bigger and stronger than ever before. This made him one of the first scientists ever to teach crop rotation. Then after all this hard work an dedication by Carver and his students came a little bunch of bugs that at cotton called a boll weevil came and started to eat the cotton crops. These bugs came to America in the early l900's from Mexico; they didn't know what to do, so Carver tells them to plant goobers (the old fashion way for saying peanuts). Carver of course being a scientist knew that the little creatures didn't like goobers/peanuts. This plan saved the cotton crops and saved the hard work and sweat that the student of Tuskegee had put into the work over the last three years. As well as for the great young scientist hard work and thoughts of this research on the cotton crops a crop rotation. This only the beginning of the great experiments and successful experiments that this world class scientist had during his remarkable life.

The great scientist researched and failed or didn't feel right about a lot of different experiments until Carver grew on one particular plant the peanut, which made him the most famous during his most incredible carrier. He first came up with the idea to make a nutritional product called peanut milk. He could use this for cooking and baking. This great idea had a great setback as it was found out that two years ago in 1917 an Englishman had already thought of this idea Carver locked himself in his workshop as he asked god why was the peanut made. He didn't come out until he thought he had an answer. His students were very worried about the professor until he f finally came out. He told the students that god the "Great Creator" had showed him how to take apart the peanut chemically and put all the parts of the peanut together in new and different products. Then Carver showed them how he had taken the different products in the peanut such as oils, sugars, starches and other things to make a dozen new products. He made things such as oil, rubbing oil, milk, cheese, and margarine. These products may have been good but he had to first proof it to the local businessmen. Carver being the smart man he is invited them over for lunch at Tuskegee. He made soup, bread, chicken, loaf, vegetables, ice cream, and cookies all made of peanut butter. After they ate and told him how wonderful the food was that all the food was made out of peanut butter. Carver should the farmers of his great success with the peanuts and was a so good in his presentations that he was elected to go before Congress at the upcoming hearings on protective tariffs. The people of Congress laughed and thought that this was a waist of time, and told him he has ten minutes to convince them to raise tariffs on peanuts. They became so interested that they gave him more than ten minutes and was convinced to raise imported tariffs on peanuts at the end of Carver's speech and presentation. This just one example of how his research and development on goobers had rubbed off on all of us.

Carver had put a lot of research in another one of the crops that was important to poor farmers by the name of sweet potato. This product made a lot of useful things that was convenient and useful to the people of America and also things to help the poor farmers make use of their sweet potato crops. One thing he made was new kind of cotton. This cotton was study and could be used to make other products such as paving blocks, paper to save our trees, rugs, insulating boards, and many other products. He even made a book that contains 118 different ways to make things with a sweet potato. Carver also developed a variety of fertilizers and showed the farmers how to use them to improve their crops.

In conclusion I've learned a lot more about America and also about more about my fellow African American famous and loving people of all kind now matter color or religion. This book report gave me the opportunity to learn more about this great scientist who was devoted to his work and was a caring man of all people no matter what they thought of him. This is a great modest man who made a difference in all our lives in some way. This great African American Scientist became well known as he made a number of useful things out of peanuts and sweet potatoes, as well as for saving the town cotton plants from the boll weevil. This is a restatement of what you have read about during this book report.

Bibliography:
Green, Mirian, John Quincy Adams, Oklshoms, Greenblatt company,1990,
pages 41-47, 53-58, 62-63, 104

Schlesinger Jr., Aurthur M., John Quincy Adams, USA, Chelsea House

Groliers Encyclopedia, Electronic Publishing, 1995, John Quincy Adams

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in Congress Assembled
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