  The effects of Gaussian quark-field smearing and analytic stout-link smearing
on the correlations of gauge-invariant extended baryon operators are studied.
Gaussian quark-field smearing substantially reduces contributions from the
short wavelength modes of the theory, while stout-link smearing significantly
reduces the noise from the stochastic evaluations. The use of gauge-link
smearing is shown to be crucial for baryon operators constructed of
covariantly-displaced quark fields. Preferred smearing parameters are
determined for a lattice spacing a_s ~ 0.1 fm.
