There was a man here in Greenup County, Kentucky by the name of Russ Cartee that dug and sold sassafras roots and oil made from them for years. He sent 3 or 4 kids through college doing it and they are now retired.
He used an ancient Allis bulldozer to shove the trees over and then collected the roots. The small ones were cut and put in small bags and sold at the local country stores, for tea.
He also had an old steam boat boiler that he put the roots in and distilled the oil from them. This he bottled and sold as a liniment.....it was good for all sorts of things.....bee stings, sore gums, muscles, you name it. We used it all the time.
The FDA shut him down many years ago because he could not afford to have everything laboratory tested for purity and so forth.
They also made the very best sassafras candy and I wish I had the recipe for it. Amazing how a man took a simple root from a hillside farm and made a living from it.
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