Wm. Dulworth, "the largest ginseng cultivator in Adair County," had the previous week hauled to Louisville 148 pounds of the rare root he had grown and returned home $888 richer. About the same time, Clem Banks of Cane Valley sold to R.T. Dudgeon three ginseng roots, weighing in at eight ounces, for the princely sum of three dollars and twenty-two and a half cents, "the largest amount ever paid in Adair for three roots..."