66ue ate the dog"

So writes Cabeza de Vaca, first hitch hiker from the Gulf of Mexico to California (land of Redwoods).

Cabeza and his companions were lost in the Great American Desert and hadn't donned the nose bag for days.

But let's read the explorer's own account: "It being the day set aside for the Feast of our blessed Saint Maria, we having eaten but the blades of dried grass these last eight days and the dog, poor dumb creature, was certainly sufiering as sharply as our helpless selves."

After a few more paragraphs of explanation Cabeza says, ttWe ate the dogr" and that's that.

Termites uiII eat Redwood, too, but-

they will eat other woods or even their brethren and sistren first.

Termites plugged up in Redwood blocks chewed their way out as fast as possible, eating fellow termites to keep steam up. Termites placed in blocks of other woods prospered and multiplied.

Frequently termites will eat ot'her woods nailed to redwood and not touch redwood.

Every particle of Redwood is grown highly termite resistant by nature. It has more than a vulnerable shell of treated wood; it is Sterling through and through.

If you strike any doubting Thomases write us for the indisputable facts.