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White Fyfe (wheat)
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a strain of fast-ripening wheat formerly in wide use in Canada.
Quotations
1883
The wonderful report from the Roman Catholic Mission at Edmonton which appeared in our columns over a week ago, stating that four acres of white Fyfe wheat had actually yielded the enormous quantity of 911 bushels to the acre, has been confirmed.
1888
Under the exceptional conditions named all the variations sown ripened prematurely, Red Fyfe and White Russian in 84 days, and White Fyfe in 83 days.