George Chimpington Carver

George Chimpington Carver was brewing his first coffee of the day. He would drink the coffee black as always, although it would be nice to have a little variety now and then. But he wouldn't even think of adding cow's milk and he was allergic to almonds. George Carver, or rather "Professor Carver", as he was called at Probosgee University, was the Head of its Agricultural Department. He had taught there for over 40 years and developed it into a strong research center. His main scientific field was the problem of depleted soils due to decades of heavy, unbalanced cultivation of a single sort of crop. He already made the groundbreaking invention of crop rotation early in his career, a systema...View all