This is perhaps a tackroom or tool room? I see what looks like an old jug on the table and is that a lantern on the floor? A lantern would have been the best light source to keep the animals safe in the hay strewn barn. Perhaps the jug held medicinal whiskey, or what the old farmer claimed was medicinal :)

Haha, very creative mind you have there. Actually that is a metal container on the floor, i am not sure what was inside it. But i do know the room had a pump from the 1800's and some basic tools. Not too much, most of the equipment was about 30 yards away in a tiny shack. The property was very eerie and these photos give it no real justice, there were animal skeletons all over the area. I wish my camera still worked, the shutter has been broken for a couple years. It was 1970's Zenit-E from Russia. All of my work was done by hand, so that means I had to use chemical baths to develop the film and the photos themselves.

I do have an overly creative mind and when it sees gaps it likes to try to fill them in fancifully.