Fertilizer distributor

A combination fertilizer distributor and tree seedling planter to plant one seedling at a time in which the distributor comprises:

• a hopper to hold a quantity of fertilizer;
• a rotatable discharge wheel provided with a plurality of spaced open ended tubes;
• a plurality of cone shaped inserts;
• each said tube being adapted to receive said cone shaped inserts whereby the inserts can be of different capacities and therefore changed to permit calibration of the amount of fertilizer to be discharged from the tube;
• a housing encasing said discharge wheel;
• said housing having a top opening on one side of the housing positioned to permit fertilizer to feed from the hopper through the opening to fill the tubes on one side of the wheel and having a bottom opening positioned to permit fertilizer to discharge from one of the filled tubes;
• tooth engaging sprocket wheel means interconnected to said discharge wheel to permit the operator to selectively move said sprocket wheel means one tooth at a time thereby successively bringing one filled tube at a time to said bottom discharge opening;
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• a spring loaded pedal mechanism, moveable by foot or by hand, linked to said sprocket wheel means whereby depressing the pedal by the operator will move said sprocket wheel means from one tooth to the next with the spring thereof returning said pedal to its original position whereby the filled tubes will be successively emptied, one tube at a time.