The Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, Department of Home Economics Records contains budgets for bills and salaries, correspondence, photographs, and publications such as annual reports, bulletins, circulars, conference proceedings, research reports, journal reprints, and pamphlets. The collection contains research in home economics conducted at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC) and files related to the administration of staff and faculty working in the Department of Home Economics at the OARDC.

The Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center Salary Budget Books contain printed salary lists, some in spiral bindings. These lists include merit increases, leaves of absence, and change in terms of service for the employees of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, later known as the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center. The budgets, dated from 1951 to 1980, include letters of transmittal signed by the director of the Station and addressed to the Board of Control.