He was trying to help poor Alabama sharecroppers whose cotton yields were declining, and he knew that planting peanuts in their fields would replenish those soils so that their cotton yields would be better a few years later.
Ele estava tentando ajudar os pobres meeiros do Alabama cuja produção de algodão estava diminuindo, e sabia que plantar amendoim nos campos reabasteceria esses solos para que a produção de algodão fosse melhor alguns anos depois.