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Greetings frat,
George Washington Carver, world renowned scientist, is (even though he's in the omega chapter) a member of the blu and white.
During a tenure that lasted nearly 50 years, Carver elevated the scientific study of farming, improved the health and agricultural output of southern farmers, and developed hundreds of uses for their crops.
Carver used scientific means to tackle the third challenge he faced at Tuskegee, widespread poverty and malnutrition among local black farmers. Year after year, farmers had planted cotton on the same plots of land and thereby exhausted the topsoil's nutrients. By testing the soil, he discovered that a lack of nitrogen in particular accounted for consistently low harvests. While at Iowa State, Carver had learned that certain plants in the pea family extracted nitrogen from the air and deposited it in the soil. To maintain the topsoil's balance of nutrients, Carver advised farmers to alternate planting cotton and peanuts. This farming method proved effective and within a few years, farmers saw a dramatic increase in their crop production. Carver then created an outreach program in which he would travel once a month to rural parts of Alabama to give hands-on instruction to farmers in this and other innovative farming techniques.
This brother also came up with over 300 uses for the peanut!!! He did all of this from a lab at Tuskegee that, in 1896, lacked facilities and funds for the agricultural department, which consisted only of a barn, a cow, and a few chickens.
He was deep!!!!
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