A kháçah horse was formerly allowed eight sers fodder per diem, when the ser weighed twenty-eight dáms. Now that the ser is fixed at thirty dáms, a kháçah horse gets seven and a half sers. In winter, they give boiled peas or vetch; in summer, grain. The daily allowance includes two sers of flour, and one and a half sers of sugar. In winter, before the horse gets fresh grass, they give it half a ser of g'hí. Two dáms are daily allowed for hay; but hay is not given, when fresh grass is available. About three bíg'has of land will yield sufficient fodder for a horse. When, instead of sugar, the horses get molasses, they stop the g'hí; and when the season of fresh grass comes, they give no grain for the first three days, but allow afterwards six sers of grain and two sers of molasses per diem. In other 'Iráqí and Turkí stables, they give seven and a half sers of grain. During the cool six months of the year, they give the grain boiled, an allowance of one dám being given for boiling one man of it. The horses also get once a week a quarter ser of salt. When g'hí and fresh grass are given, each horse, provided its price be above thirty-one muhurs, gets also one ser of sugar; whilst such as are worth from twenty-one to thirty muhurs, only get half a ser. Horses of less value get no sugar at all. Before green grass is given, horses of a value from twenty-one to upwards of one hundred muhurs, get one man and ten sers of g'hí; such as are worth from eleven to twenty muhurs, thirty sers; but horses up to ten muhurs get neither g'hí, brown sugar, nor green oats. Salt is given at the daily rate one-fiftieth of a dám, though it is mostly given in a lump. 'Iráqí and Turkí horses which belong to the court, are daily allowed two d. for grass; but such of them as are in the country, only one and a half. In winter, each horse gets a bíg'ha of fresh oats, the price of which, at court, is 240 d., and in the country, 200 d. At the time of fresh oats, each horse gets two mans of molasses, the same quantity being subtracted from the allowance of grain.

Experienced officers, attached to the Imperial offices, calculate the amount required, and make out an estimate, which in due course is paid. When a horse is sick, every necessary expense is paid on the certificate of the horse doctor.

Every stallion to a stud of mares receives the allowance of a kháçah horse. The gúṭ horses get five and a half sers of grain, the usual quantity of salt, and grass at the rate of one and a half d. per diem, if at court, and at the rate of 13/25 d., when in the country; but they do not get g'hí, molasses, or green oats. Qisráqs, i. e., female horses, get, at court, four and a half sers of grain, the usual allowance of salt, and one d. for grass; and in the country, the same, with the exception of the grass, for which only three fourths of a dám are allowed. Stud mares get two and three fourths sers of grain; but the allowance for grass, salt, and fuel, is not fixed.

A foal sucks its dam for three months; after which, for nine months, it is allowed the milk of two cows; then, for six months, two and three-fourths sers of grain per diem; after which period, the allowance is every six months increased by a ser, till it completes the third year, when its food is determined by the above regulations.