Abstract: A portable hand held device for distributing granular material including a hopper for holding the material, a support base for the hopper, a distributor wheel having circumferentially spaced outwardly opening compartments suspended beneath the base under the discharge of the hopper, a hand crank operated drive assembly mounted on the base coupled with the distributor wheel turning the wheel, an arcuate shield or side wall suspended from the base around the portion of the distributor wheel in the vicinity of the discharge of the hopper into the wheel, and a shutter slide mounted between the distributor wheel and the hopper discharge for adjusting the rate of flow from the hopper into each compartment of the distributor wheel.