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Puccinia malvacearum

University of Colorado Extension Service.



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Luther Duncan

Working closely with Alabama Governor Bibb Graves, U.S. Senator John H. Bankhead and E.A. O’Neal, president of the American Farm Bureau, Duncan eventually secured passage of the Bankhead-Jones At, which increased funding for resident teaching, agricultural research and agricultural extension.

Peanut butter cookie

George Washington Carver (1864-1943), an American agricultural extension educator, from Alabama's Tuskegee Institute, was the most well known promoter of the peanut as a replacement for the cotton crop, which had been heavily damaged by the boll weevil.