The County Agent Mr. Hayney. Pure bumbling bureaucrat.
Yup.
Mr. Kimball, but your point is definitely valid.
The county agent was Hank Kimball, played by the great Alvy Moore (and former adult Mouseketeer), Alvy Moore. Before becoming an actor, Mr. Moore was a Marine infantryman who took part in the invasion of Iwo Jima. His kids said Alvy Moore, who was a genial fellow—and looked fondly on his days on Green Acres—never spoke much about his time on Iwo.
Pat Buttram played Mr Haney, the rural con man who always seemed to get the better of Oliver Wendell Douglas. Buttram’s quote about the rural purge was widely repeated at the time and is still remembered today: “They canceled everything with a tree,” he said.
Green Acres was a great show. Lot of subtle satire in the scripts that took shots at a lot of things.