sugar cane cut before ripe, stalks dropped into furrows & indian cuts stack into pieces a foot long as it lies in furrow Mauritius peas used for green manuring crop 10 months was between cane growing & return to canal. rice ripening cut with sickle in bundles & these are taken to centre for few rods & flailed on small table with small sticks & crevices between. rice palling underneath under roof is log with pointed block at one end on a pivot which works up & down & women work with hands keep rice into center to husk nicely