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Word: wheatstem (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year some 30,000 bushels of the new Redman seed will be ready for planting next spring. So too, probably, will seed for another new strain, Rescue wheat, on which the destructive wheatstem sawfly (annual damage: $20,000,000) blunts its proboscis in vain. This year, as the E.F.S. celebrates its 60th birthday, it could boast that it had made Canadian wheat the world's toughest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: The Redman Strain | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

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