PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide both an apparatus for applying chemicals for young seedlings raised in seedling boxes comprising a new structure capable of automatically and continuously applying prescribed amounts of the powdery or granular chemicals to the young seedlings raised in the plural seedling boxes and realizing the application so that the chemicals surely reach bed soil over the whole surfaces of the seedling boxes, and a new method for applying the chemicals using the apparatus.SOLUTION: The apparatus for applying the chemicals 8, 8, or the like, for the young seedlings 91 raised in the seedling boxes 9 comprises a transporting table 2 obtained by assembling an endless track belt 3 in a nearly horizontal state and a hopper type chemical storage tank 4 prepared by assembling a trough part 5 for the application toward the oblique downward side in the transporting direction of the seedling boxes 9 in a suitable place of the transporting table 2 and in a position at a height of not lower than the plant height of the young seedlings 91 in the seedling boxes 9 and further a seedling touch rod 6 arranged in a nearly horizontal state in a falling track of the chemicals 8, 8, or the like, released from the trough part 5 for the application in a position at a height corresponding to a prescribed site of young leaves of the young seedlings 91 raised in the transported seedling boxes 9 in the direction intersecting the transporting direction of the seedling boxes 9 at right angles.COPYRIGHT: (C)2002,JPO【課題】 一定量の粉粒状薬剤を、複数の苗箱に育成された稚苗に対して自動的且つ連続的に散布可能であって、苗箱全面に渡る床土まで確実に届くよう散布することを実現化する新規な構造からなる苗箱内育成稚苗用薬剤散布装置、およびそれを使用した新規な薬剤散布方法を提供する。【解決手段】 無限軌道帯3を略水平状に組み込んでなる搬送台2と、該搬送台2の適所であって、苗箱内育成稚苗91の背丈以上の高さ位置に苗箱搬送方向斜下方に向けて散布用樋部5を組み込んでなるホッパー型薬剤貯留槽4とを有し、散布用樋部5から放出される薬剤8,8,……の落下軌道内にであって、搬送されてくる苗箱9内育成稚苗の稚葉所定箇所に相当する高さ位置に、苗箱搬送方向に直交する方向に苗当り棒6が略水平状に配されてなるものとした苗箱内育成稚苗用薬剤散布装置である。
