NATIVE FARM IMPLEMENTS When the Spaniards came to Cebu, agriculture, of the swidden type, was already widespread. Later, wet rice cultivation and the plow ere introduced. Many of the tools used by farmers then were still being used as late as the 1950's and 1960's. The daro or plow was made entirely of wood, usually tugas or molave. Only wooden dowels instead of iron nails were used to put the pieces together. The siadlay or harrow pulverized the soil, and- the ukay was used for mixing the soil and the water in the rice paddies. For planting and harvesting rice, the farmer used a sipol or knife,sanggot or sickle., a. guna or dull-bladed for weeding the fields, lusong and albo or mortar and pestle for pounding and unhusking rice, a nigo for winnowing the husked grains, an agong or bamboo drum for announcing the start of planting, harvesting, rice pounding and pinipig cooking time, a bugasan or rice container made of buri strips. Corn farmers made use of the bangguran for separating the dried kernels from the cob, and a stone galingan or Corn mill. The sugong was used the manananggot or tuba gatherer as a container for tuba or coconut wine, while the kudkoran was used for grating coconut meat. Hungot and paya were dishes made out of coconut shells. Sugar cane was milled in a carabao-powered mill which was introduced in Cebu by the Chinese. Its end Products were kinugay or brown sugar, tami or molasses, anibal or syrup, pinilon or white sugar which was poured into a wooden mold called pilonan, and tira-tira, a sticky candy, Cassava was grated in a nidniran. This grated cassava was made into cakes, while the residue was made into flour which was sifted in an ayagan. Commonly used household utensils in a Cebuano house consisted of the following: Kun or kulon, a large earthenware pot; anglit or small pot; luwag or ladle made out of a coconut shell and bamboo; duwang, a. wooden basin; tagakan, a container made out of woven bamboo strips; tatso, a cooking vessel with two handles; banga, an earthenware jar for storing liquids; habanan, a hand loom; bakat, a large container made out of bamboo strips, and a pasawan or feeding dish for animals like pigs. The early carpenter's tools were made of heavy wood instead of metal.

NATIVE FARM IMPLEMENTS

When the Spaniards came to Cebu, agriculture, of the swidden type, was already widespread. Later, wet rice cultivation and the plow ere introduced. Many of the tools used by farmers then were still being used as late as the 1950's and 1960's.

The daro or plow was made entirely of wood, usually tugas or molave. Only wooden dowels instead of iron nails were used to put the pieces together. The siadlay or harrow pulverized the soil, and- the ukay was used for mixing the soil and the water in the rice paddies.

For planting and harvesting rice, the farmer used a sipol or knife,sanggot or sickle., a. guna or dull-bladed for weeding the fields, lusong and albo or mortar and pestle for pounding and unhusking rice, a nigo for winnowing the husked grains, an agong or bamboo drum for announcing the start of planting, harvesting, rice pounding and pinipig cooking time, a bugasan or rice container made of buri strips.

Corn farmers made use of the bangguran for separating the dried kernels from the cob, and a stone galingan or Corn mill.

The sugong was used the manananggot or tuba gatherer as a container for tuba or coconut wine, while the kudkoran was used for grating coconut meat. Hungot and paya were dishes made out of coconut shells.

Sugar cane was milled in a carabao-powered mill which was introduced in Cebu by the Chinese. Its end Products were kinugay or brown sugar, tami or molasses, anibal or syrup, pinilon or white sugar which was poured into a wooden mold called pilonan, and tira-tira, a sticky candy,

Cassava was grated in a nidniran. This grated cassava was made into cakes, while the residue was made into flour which was sifted in an ayagan.

Commonly used household utensils in a Cebuano house consisted of the following: Kun or kulon, a large earthenware pot; anglit or small pot; luwag or ladle made out of a coconut shell and bamboo; duwang, a. wooden basin; tagakan, a container made out of woven bamboo strips; tatso, a cooking vessel with two handles; banga, an earthenware jar for storing liquids; habanan, a hand loom; bakat, a large container made out of bamboo strips, and a pasawan or feeding dish for animals like pigs.

The early carpenter's tools were made of heavy wood instead of metal.