Owen in his Report to the County of Lanark (1821) proposed a form of unemployment relief which was also a project for what a century later would have been called collective farming. Instead of being maintained in idleness, the unemployed were to be settled on the land and made to grow their own food. Later versions of the plan allowed for industrial production as well, but at first the emphasis was on farming, specifically on spade cultivation. (Owen disapproved of the plow.) In addition to raising crops, the settlers would also improve their physiques and acquire an education. Their bodily and mental powers would thus be developed and placed in the service of the community. All these advantages could be secured by establishing Villages of Unity and Cooperation, which consisted of 500 to 1,500 persons settled on 1,000 to 1,500 acres of land, with blocks of houses built around large squares. Within the squares, public buildings would be erected so as to divide the squares into quadrangles: hence the derisive label "Mr. Owen's parallelograms of paupers," which attached itself to the project after Cobbett had denounced it in his usual robust fashion. Parliament and government did not respond, although Owen was invited to London to lay his scheme before them.