. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. A OF THE REPUBLICAN GUARD five months in getting acclimated at the re-mount station at Berne. They are then- sent toa school for remounts to be trained. Formerly. 136 OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS every mounted Swisssoldier supplied his ownhorse. Nothing remains ofthis custom but the factthat each man in the cav-alry service may becomethe possessor of his horseon certain conditions andby paying a certain sum;also he may do what helikes with the animal whenhe is not in service. In caseof a call to active servicehe must bring hi
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. A OF THE REPUBLICAN GUARD five months in getting acclimated at the re-mount station at Berne. They are then- sent toa school for remounts to be trained. Formerly. 136 OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS every mounted Swisssoldier supplied his ownhorse. Nothing remains ofthis custom but the factthat each man in the cav-alry service may becomethe possessor of his horseon certain conditions andby paying a certain sum;also he may do what helikes with the animal whenhe is not in service. In caseof a call to active servicehe must bring his horse(which has, meantime, beenannually inspected) untilthe tenth year, when theanimal becomes his exclu-sive property. It would bedifficult to cite a better ex-ample of Swiss democracyand individualism. Spain has a cavalry often thousand horses, theartillery and the transpor-tation trains being usually served by mules. Theremounts are bought in the country itself,except a few heavy draft horses which areimported from Belgium.
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