Show ono one industry Indu of the pesky ant out in burma and the far east where sandalwood fiand alwood Is worth its weight in silver the pestiferous ant Is a valuable assistant to the loggers of that pred precious lous timber the hard and fragrant heartwood alone has value but as the tree grows this valuable heart is overlaid by a soft and worthless layer forming two thirds of the trunk when a tree is felled and cut into lengths the loggers let the timber lie at once the ants begin work upon the soft wood which Is and sweet enough to attract them in a few weeks less than a month in the case of the largest butts the ants deliver the heartwood free of aalthe all the worthless sapwood |