In the morning the sexes work separately. But after the heat of the day the two groups of workers gradually and slyly disintegrate and form two new groups. Married men and women work together and exchange witticisms and gossip, occasionally singing in concert. And before the work finishes there is an arrangement of trysting places. The pig is enwreathed with rice heads, hagaga grass , and the stick with which the pig was killed in ceremonial fashion.
R ice is much more highly prized as food than the camote.
Rice land in small tracts is not very productive because of the ravages of rats, wild pigs, monkeys, and deer on the border fields. In Kiangan district, where rice is sixty per cent of the subsistence of the people, fully one-third of the labor is imported from the poorer districts surrounding. The season in which rice is raised is very uncertain as to rainfall. In 1912 the crop was not over one-fourth the average yield, owing to drought. T he first difficulty is being overcome by the subprovincial government, which is organizing and managing the irrigation of two large tracts of level land.