It produces iron and steel in considerable quantities but has few machine shops where really delicate work can be done.

It does not manufacture motor cars, electric or even textile machinery or machine tools, nor does it make watches or firearms in appreciable quantities.

In short, the South carries some of the most important raw materials only a step or two toward their ultimate form and depends upon other parts of the country for the finished article.
Years ago the story was told of a Georgia funeral at which that State furnished only the corpse and the grave.

Georgia, and other States too, can do much more today, if the funeral be not too elaborate.

It can furnish a cotton shroud, each year of finer quality.