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[gildedcentury.livejournal.com]

Country Gentleman January 1942

The real fun lies in the application process.

Comments

[anacoluthon.livejournal.com]

"Caked bag" sounds pretty disgusting.

We sold this in the pet supply store I used to manage; it was great for chapped dog paws and noses. The tin looks exactly the same, but it's gone up in price just a bit.

[janenx01.livejournal.com]

I love the smell of bag balm.

The teat-armed burglar is a bit disconcerting.

[moiracoon.livejournal.com]

This stuff smells horrid, but is awesome on dry feet.

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

The burglar is inside the udder!

[flummoxicated.livejournal.com]

...the Teat Burglar?

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

I remember my mother, a farm girl, telling me about this stuff and how nursing mothers would use it on themselves. They'd get their own jar, of course! When I had my babies, I remembered that and seriously considered finding a feed store somewhere to get this stuff instead of paying the outrageous markup on Lansinoh, which is also a lanolin-based balm. I didn't know Bag Balm contained antiseptics, though.

[living400lbs.livejournal.com]

Bag Balm is carried by many drug stores now. Growing up my folks (who both grew up in farm country) would use it on scrapes and dry feet.

[murakozi.livejournal.com]

After all these years, the tin still looks the same. We tend to go through a good bit of it with the horses.

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

I really need to buy some. It's the only thing that worked on my dry skin.

[meleth.livejournal.com]

My grandpa used Udder Balm on their cows, and it's really amazing on winter skin.

Also, it took me a minute to realize that the "burglars" were dry, chapped udders, rather than hobos who were sneaking into the barn and stealing the milk.

[foxsong.livejournal.com]

Yup, this stuff was an old standby at every horse farm I was ever at. I keep it around the house for myself now that my old horse has retired.

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

My mother used to drive to the Farm & Fleet store in Kankakee, IL--a 45 minute car trip from our house--to get this stuff. To this day, she still swears by it for her chapped hands.