KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -Dr. Carver established an agriculture extension in Alabama and founded an industrial research lab where he worked tirelessly on the development of hundreds of applications for new plants. Carver discovered more than 300 uses for peanuts and hundreds more uses for soybeans, pecans and sweet potatoes.

Detailed explanation-2: -Cotton was still ‘king’ in the South, and Carver, like other agricultural researchers of the day, tried to find ways to help farmers increase the quantity and quality of their cotton production…. Yet Carver was a dreamer, more interested in finding something to end the debilitating reliance upon cotton….

Detailed explanation-3: -Carver published the results of his studies on the value of growing and developing various (non-cotton) crops such as sweet potatoes, cowpeas, small grains, corn, alfalfa, and plums in several Experiment Station Bulletins. (He also acknowledged the primacy of cotton for poor black Alabama farmers in two publications.)

Detailed explanation-4: -As the “Father of the Peanut Industry, ‘’ George Washington Carver developed more than 300 uses for peanuts, including chili sauce, shampoo, shaving cream and glue, to help save agriculture in the South. His humanitarian efforts were well documented and his innovations were so popular that even Franklin D.