Its aggressiveness has largely resulted in the destruction of the business of the licorice dealers who formerly supplied the drug and its extract. Licorice paste contains 25 per cent. Root yields 40 per cent. Paste yields 21 or 22 per cent. Sells at thirty-four shillings for 112 pounds delivered at Liverpool.
Men dig one hundred pounds per day.
Diggers' wages twenty-five to thirty cents.