  We discuss baryon production in the nucleon fragmentation region in deep
inelastic scattering. The dependence of the nucleon spectra on Bjorken-$x$ is
evaluated within the parton model and in QCD, and ways to look for the
break-down of the DGLAP approximation via baryon production are suggested. We
argue also that the leading neutron production in these small $x$ processes is
rather insensitive to the pion parton densities of the nucleon.
