Boote's Hatcheries

Company History: Boote, a Worthington entrepreneur, built hatcheries all over southern Minnesota. In the spring of 1932, Boote told Schneider and another employee named Pete to go to Albert Lea and build a new hatchery. He said, &8220;Walt, you are good at construction and Pete, you can do concrete work, so the two of you will do fine.&8221; Walt said the only construction experience he had was building a hog shed with his dad on their Wykoff farm. Pete’s concrete experience consisted of helping install a sidewalk, but the two young men confidently headed off to Albert Lea to get started. They used horses and a slip scraper to dig the basement, then asked construction and concrete men who were out of work for advice and help. Boote was right. Walt and Pete did fine.

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