Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1895 — A Horse That Weeds the Garden. [ARTICLE]

A Horse That Weeds the Garden.

Henry Moore, a planter living near Englewood, Ala., has a valuable riding horse, Kit, which he has trained to do light garden work in a unique way when not on duty under the saddle. When Kit was a young colt he had the-misfortune to sprain his knee in racing and romping about the pasture, and to give him careful attention and keep him well out of harm’s way his master put him in the garden to take things easy till his recovery. Moore’s garden, like the average i one in this section, sometimes gets overrun with cocoa grass, and having occasion to chop it out pretty frequently, he hit upon a plan by which he might be relieved of this almost endless work during Kit’s confinement. The colt had always seemed remarkably quick and intelligent, and with a very little training Moore taught him to pull grass as cleverly and neatly as it could be done by hand. In a short while Kit was engaged as regular gardener, as it were, keeping the beds as clean as the floor and piling the grass in the walks, to be removed by barrows.