George Washington Carver

==Carver bulletins==
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During his more than four decades at Tuskegee, Carver's official published work consisted mainly of 44 practical bulletins for farmers.<ref>[http://www.tuskegee.edu/Global/story.asp?S=1107189&nav=menu200_2 List of Bulletins by George Washington Carver] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060830120300/http://www.tuskegee.edu/Global/story.asp?S=1107189&nav=menu200_2 |date=August 30, 2006}} from the Tuskegee University website.</ref> His first bulletin in 1898 was on feeding acorns to farm animals. His final bulletin in 1943 was about the peanut. He also published six bulletins on sweet potatoes, five on cotton, and four on cowpeas. Some other individual bulletins dealt with alfalfa, wild plum, tomato, ornamental plants, corn, poultry, dairying, hogs, preserving meats in hot weather, and nature study in schools.

His most popular bulletin, ''How to Grow the Peanut and 105 Ways of Preparing it for Human Consumption'', was first published in 1916<ref name="105ways">Carver, George Washington. 1916. [http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/fruit-nut/carver-peanut/ "How to Grow the Peanut and 105 Ways of Preparing it for Human Consumption"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121213082146/http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/fruit-nut/carver-peanut/ |date=December 13, 2012}}, ''Tuskegee Institute Experimental Station Bulletin'' 31.</ref> and has been reprinted numerous times. It provides a short overview of peanut crop production and contains a list of recipes from other agricultural bulletins, cookbooks, magazines, and newspapers, such as the ''Peerless Cookbook'', ''Good Housekeeping'', and ''Berry's Fruit Recipes''. While Carver's was not the first American agricultural bulletin devoted to peanuts,<ref>Handy, R. B. 1895. "Peanuts: Culture and Uses". ''USDA Farmers' Bulletin'' 25.</ref><ref>Newman, C. L. 1904. ''Peanuts''. Fayetteville, Arkansas: Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station.</ref><ref>Beattie, W. R. 1909. "Peanuts". ''USDA Farmers' Bulletin'' 356.</ref><ref>Ferris, E. B. 1909. "Peanuts". Agricultural College, Mississippi: Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Station.</ref><ref>Beattie, W. R. 1911. "The Peanut". ''USDA Farmers' Bulletin'' 431.</ref> his bulletins seem to have been more popular and widespread than those that preceded his.

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