The author offers a discussion of previously reported experiments he conducted that focused on the effect of delayed feeding upon rapidity of habit formation. Six male rats approximately one hundred days of age and six male rats approximately sixty days of age were required to learn the simple problem of entering a food box. The study determined that the delaying of the feeding for thirty seconds after the solving of the problem did not alter the learning process. The author offers this experiment not as throwing any conclusive light on the learning process but as opening up the possibility of carrying out experimental work upon the fixation of arcs in habit and as showing the very great need there is for such study. The control of habit is one of the most vital problems in every system of psychology. The answering of this question ought to enable us to attack the problem of habit control in a far more scientific manner than is now possible. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)