For a long time Bart Brassica has felt that being a farmer lacked for him a feeling of cultivation, which could be put down to how grandiose schemes come a cropper rather than grow crops, which together with his preference for animate livestock,  which both he and the Farmhands feel they have more in common with, he has decided to cultivate Inaminate animals,  the glass horse, an antique Indian elephant , and a stone rabbit - the latter being the subject of a joke by Frank Winkler which totally eludes Bart.   So far the new-old farm livestock have not eaten a thing,  and only move by the Big Hand.  Still Bart has his eye out for another one of each to make three breeding pairs. In any case, Granny Eggwhistle says this is culitivation.