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How did George Washington Carver solve depleted soil from growing cotton.

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Step-by-step explanation:

He began by introducing the idea of crop rotation. In the Tuskegee experimental fields, Carver settled on peanuts because it was a simple crop to grow and had excellent nitrogen fixating properties to improve soil depleted by growing cotton.

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