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Focus: Summer Tune-Ups Set aside a special day for maintenance Coming soon for your AC system: hydrocarbon refrigerants by Keith Berglind Soon, you may be cooling your truck or tractor with hydrocarbons in the air-conditioning system.     more on page 25 StateSide Timely new biography of Henry Wallace a dream by Alan Guebert     on page 35

Farm lobby fears cheap power for rural areas under threat from privatization by Don Stoneman Ontario has promised to continue to provide cheap electricity to the province's hinterlands for the next four years, but farm lobbying over the future of rural electrical service in Ontario continues unabated in Queen's Park.     more on page 22 TheHill For now, farmers win one, lose one on the environmental agenda By Barry Wilson