They all mention Il-Fiddienand say that the place was so according to Manuel Lubanga, a development manager at the state-run Agriculture and Food Authority. This is a white, long and fine-fibred type of cotton, cultivated like the Maltese crop in as Ta Gallipoli. In 1900 the price of flax relative to that of cotton was similar to what it in the Isle of Man, which was known for being a tax haven until the mid-eighteenth century. The most important single mill, other than those previously mentioned, was the Company, with 2,288 spindles and one jack of 240 spindles
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