Editing Mission San Buenaventura (section)

==Mission industries==
[[File:San Buenaventura circa 1900 William Amos Haines.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Mission San Buenaventura ''circa'' 1900. Note the thickness of the chapel side wall and the massive [[buttress]]es supporting it.]]
Some animals at San Buenaventura were [[cattle]], [[horse]]s, [[sheep]], [[donkey]]s and [[goat]]s. The cattle were very important because they provided food, oil and hides. In the year of 1818, 35,274 cattle wandered over the mission lands as far as the [[Oxnard Plain]]. A little time after January 7, 1831, the animal population decreased to a low of 4,000 cattle, 3,000 sheep, 300 horses and 60 mules. In July 1839, Inspector-General E.P. Hartnell found 2,208 cattle, 1,670 sheep, 799 horses, 35 mules and 65 goats. The soil around Mission San Buenaventura was very good so the mission could grow many crops. San Buenaventura grew [[apple]]s, [[grape]]s, [[banana]]s, [[pear]]s, [[plum]]s, [[pomegranate]]s, [[ficus|figs]], [[Orange (fruit)|oranges]], [[coconut]]s, [[bean]]s, [[grain]], [[Maize|corn]] and [[barley]]. In the year of 1818, 12,483 bushels of grain were harvested. Shortly after January 7, 1831, harvests had been reduced to 1,750 bushels of wheat, 2,000 bushels of barley, 500 bushels of corn, and 400 bushels of beans. In July 1839, Inspector-General William E.P. Hartnell found 322 [[fanega]]s of wheat, 182 fanegas of corn and 35 fanegas of peas.