Unnamed County Agricultural Agent

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Unnamed County Agricultural Agent
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Unnamed County Agricultural Agent
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Middle Class
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
Occupation: 
Administrative
Specific Job: 
County Agent
Biography: 

There are several references in "The Tall Men" to "county agents" in general. This is "the county agent's young fellow" who visits the McCallums periodically to explain the new federal programs that regulate agricultural production (57). He works for the federal government as part of the Roosevelt administration's efforts during the Depression to improve farm practices in places like the deep South. To the McCallums, this is the "the Government" that wants to "interfere with how a man farmed his own land" (55). This "young fellow" regularly "comes out to measure the pasture crops" at the McCallum place (57). The McCallums treat him politely, but want nothing to do with such assistance, either as advice or as subsidies.

Note: 
The text of "The Tall Men" includes references to various county agents and one "county agent's young fellow," presumably a young county agent. The McCallum family doesn't appreciate the county agents coming between farmers and their crops, and, moreover, cannot believe that the government wants to pay them for "not-cotton," or not planting cotton (57).
Individual or Group: 
Individual
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