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Good manila is very hard to find. Most of what you see is sisal are far weaker material. Manila, which comes primarily from the Phillipines(duh!), was difficult to get in WW II for obvious reasons. The US government experimented with growing it in Missouri I believe with rather mixed results. They did, on the other hand, end up with a close relative that did quite well in the fertile fields of Missouri; marijuanna.
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