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13 * A 1; ?0I surrey* conducted in the summer of 1945* in collaboration with the Xovfa Agricultural Extension Service* demonstrated several significant facts, both in relation to '*01* s daytime service and with respect to nighttime service proposed by ,? QI in an application for extended time during the presently prohibited hours. An effort vaa ma.de to determine the best possible time to present farm information to listeners for use In the day-by-day farm t 1ob s Follovrlng Is a summary of five of the questions ashed, (Numbers 3, 12, 13. "4, and 15) dealing with listener preferences on farm market and general farm information, weather, farm service during evening broadcast time* and preferred times fpr the evening news final* Attached is Exhibit 173* a questional re for V01 Earn iradio Survey conducted by Mr, Edward Megsneor* which was sent to Iowa farmers ae described in Exhibit if 4 which follows Realizing its obligation to the listening public and particularly the Agricultural interest of the state, NOI h?id oper ted be inning at 6,00 AM* CST, on a year around basis for many years prior to Juno 7, 1940, the date of the adoption of Federal Communications Commission Order #74, which permitted opera¬ tion after 4:00 AM, CST c This procedure was followed until the privilege was cancelled on February 11# 1942, with the advent cf "a r daylight saving time, and the beginning hour specified to be not earlier than sunrise. The average sunrise time by the months at Ames during the nine months of the year when sunrise was later than 6:00 AM# CWT# was as? follows? January February March September October November December April August 8:45 AM C,r.T, 8:15 AM 0 N,T. 7i30 AM (VLT, 6; 30 AM C,*?„T. 6:15 AM C.Tf.T 7:00 m C/r.T, 7;30 AM C.TF.T, 8:00 AM CJ-:.T 8:30 AM <V\T,