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Whenever anyone who takes a scientific interest in cotton growing, or in the natural history of this part of the world, comes to visit Tuskegee, he invariably seeks and consults Professor Garver.

— George Washington Carver

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Source: in Booker T. Washington The Booker T. Washington Reader (an African American Heritage Book), ilder Publications, 1 January 2008, p. 213
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