The plow—or plough—one of the oldest types of agricultural implements, is used to break up soil in preparation for planting. Modern plows are also used to bury, or plow under, crop remains at the end of the growing season. The earliest plow...

A man must plow with the oxen he has. (Chinese) Don’t yoke the plow before the horses. (Dutch) Drive not too many plows at once, some will make foul work. (Danish) He plows the land of others, and leaves his own untilled. (Roman) Many can drive...

The plough (American spelling: plow) is a tool used in farming for initial cultivation of soil in preparation for sowing seed or planting. It has been a basic instrument for most of recorded history, and represents one of the major advances in...

There is something so lyrical and moving about the business of ploughing - the sod-polished plough cleaving the fructifying earth - that it's good to note that there was a fine, worldly reason for the formation of the Trumpet Ploughing Match in 1944. ...

It's a permanent fixture in the diary of the President of Ireland. It's an event that neither the Taoiseach and Leader of the Opposition can afford to miss. It's Ireland's biggest annual outdoor event, which this year attracted more than 120,000 people of...

Schering-Plough Corp. said Monday its second-quarter profit more than doubled as revenue climbed 13 percent on the strength of cholesterol drugs Vytorin and Zetia. Its shares rose more than 2 percent.Net income after paying preferred dividends climbed to $517 million, or 34 cents per share,...

Pharmaceutical companies Merck & Co. and Schering-Plough Corp., partners in a lucrative cholesterol drug joint venture, posted hefty jumps in second-quarter profit Monday and handily beat analysts' expectations.Merck, which again raised its 2007 earnings forecast, got a pat on the back from Wall Street, with...